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median nervure, then by a pair of lines which are joined just below the point where the 

 hrst median nervule is given off, then by another fine line, the space between it and 

 the outer of the pair of lines just described fuscous ; a broad fuscous bar beyond the end 

 of the cell. Uiudwing with some very obscure black basal and cellular lines, the outer 

 margin broadly blue, narrowing towards the apex and continued diffusedly on to the 

 inner angle of the forewing. The margin defined with a very fine black line, the cilia 

 pure vvhite. Underside much paler brown than above. Forewino with a short fine 

 black line near the base of the cell, a pair of lines near the middle, with another pair beyond, 

 the inner one just within the disco-cellular nervules. The disc is crossed by a pair 

 ot diffused fuscous lines, the outer one somewhat lunular and evenly curved, the inner 

 one very irregular, inwardly deflexed from the third median nervule to the costa, 

 the space enclosed between it and the outer line somewhat ochreous anteriorly. Hind^vin^ 

 with the usual basal and cellular fine black lines, an obscure diffused fuscous discal band 

 and a narrower lunular submarginal line. Female. " Upperside, both ^vings rufous- 

 brown, crossed by a continuous oblique band of dark brown, commencing at the apex 

 of the_ forewing and reaching to the middle of the abdominal fold of the hindwing. 

 Forewwg with a black line, two oblong spots (one within, the other just beyond the 

 cell) and two smaller spots below these ; crossed at the middle by a curved band of five 

 clouded-white spots; the outer margin dark brown. ^/Wze//«^ with two oblong [dark brown] 

 spots near the base ; crossed beyond the middle by a band of dark brown lunular spots. 

 Underside as above, except that it is orange-yellow ; that the band described above 

 as continuous, is much more distinct on the forewing, but scarcely seen on the hindwing ; 

 that the spots near the base of the fornving and the band of white spots are all bordered 

 with black ; that there is a sixth white spot below the band of five spots ; that the apex 

 is white ; that the hiiuhoing has the usual black spots and lines near the base, but in- 

 distinctly marked." {Hewitson, 1. c.) 



The male of this species on the upperside bears a general resemblance to E. appiades, 

 but is much darker, and the blue border extends on to the forewing ; on the underside 

 the ground-colour is brown not greenish-ochreous, the two discal bands are continuous, 

 in E. appiades they are broken up into round or lunular spots. The female differs from 

 that sex of E. appiades on the upperside in having a prominent dark brown band crossing 

 both wings almost in a straight line, and on the underside of the forewing in having 

 six prominent white discal spots, In E, telchinia also the body is much more robust 

 than in any other species of this section. E. telchinia is a rare species. Mr. Otto Moller has 

 obtained a female in Sikkim in October, Mr. Wood-Mason has taken males on Nemotha 

 in Cachar in September, these are the only exact records of its capture which I possess. 



The next three species have in the males the outer margin blue on the upperside of the 

 hindwing only, not extending to the apex or on to the forewing ; the forewing is longer but 

 less emarginate than in E. lepidea, and the hindwing is broader. The females are pale 

 brown, with the black lines as in the males but more prominent, and with no trace of blue 

 on the outer margin : they also have whitish patches near the costa of the forewing between 

 the discal lines, sometimes indistinct, sometimes large and prominent. The underside is 

 dusky ochreous with two series of black spots ; in the male the spots of the outer series are 

 circled with blue on the hindwing, and in the female the hindwing is suffused with bluish- 

 grey throughout the inner three-fourths ; deepest along the abdominal margin. 



502. Euthalia appiades, Mene'tries. 



Adolias appiades {aplades on plate), M(Jndtri^s, Cat. Mus. Petr., Lep., vol. ii, p. 120, n. 1263, pi. ix 

 fig. 4, male (1857) ; A. apiades, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, vol. v, p. 77, n. 32 (1859) ! idem, id. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 766 ; id., Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 609, n. 59 ; A, scdrja, Moore, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, vol, v, p. 68, n. 10, pi. iv, fig, 3, fevuile, var, (1859), 



Habitat : Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Sylhet, Cachar, 

 Expanse : ,?, 2-50 to 325 ; ?, 3-25 to 360 inches. 



