2o8 NYMniALID/E. NYxMPHALIN/E. EUTHALIA. 



Description: "M/Vle. Upperside dark glossy olive-brown, with two lunulated lines 

 crossing tlie disc of both wings, and markings at base of wings black, the lines obscure 

 at the upper ends on the foreuiing \ a greenish-blue marginal band from anal angle 

 broadly along exterior margin [of hmdwing\. Underside dusky ferruginous, greenish 

 at tlie apex of forewing, and thickly so on the posterior half of hindwing, and the 

 abdominal margin tinged with yellow ; transverse lines as in upperside, but broader and very 

 black from the anal angle ; also the basal marks. Female.* Upperside brown. Forewing 

 with transverse row of whitish spots, the first two long, each with a point outwards, the rest 

 to the posterior margin very small, along the inner margin of the band only ; the rest of 

 the band being brown, its outer margin defined by a dusky line. Hindzving with two transverse 

 ziz-zag blackish lines. Discoidal mark blackish. Underside. Forexuing reddish-ochreous, 

 greenish at the base and along outer margin and at the apex ; band as in upper- 

 side, but more defined. Hindzving deep glossy greenish-grey, with transverse lines as 

 in upperside, tinged anteriorly within with white. Discoidal marks black." {Moore, 1. c.) 

 Mr. Butler (1. c.) describes the female as follows : — "Upperside yellow-fuscous with the 

 usual basal streaks, two continuous discal fuscous wavy rather diffused lines, both with 

 four whitish dots near the apex oi ^\& foreiuing. Underside coloured as in ^. y^z^^w, but 

 \!a& fomiing differing altogether in shape." 



E. appiades is the commonest species of the genus in Sikkim and probably eastwards 

 as far as Upper Assam in suitable localities. The male is at once known by the blue 

 border to the hindwing on the upperside, bounded anteriorly between the third median nervule 

 and discoidal fold by the outer of the two discal ziz-zag bands. The two discal bands on the 

 forewing on the upperside at once distinguish it from E. phemius and E. telchinia ; the 

 underside also is quite different, the discal bands on both wings being broken up into 

 spots, those on the hindwing of the outer band, and towards the anal angle of the inner 

 band, are surrounded with blue. The female is much larger than the male, has no blue 

 border to the hindwing on the upperside, the discal bands on the forewing are more or 

 less marked with white anteriorly ; in specimens from Assam, Sylhet and Cachar this 

 character is very prominent, there being two large oblong white spots filling the interspace 

 between the two bands divided by the upper discoidal nervule. It was this form of the 

 fem.ale which was described and figured by Mr. Moore as E. sedcva, and which he now 

 maintains as the female of his E. balarama.'\ 



503. Eutlialia Tsalarama, Moore. 



Adoltas bnlamma, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1865, p. 766, pi. xli, fig. 3, male ; A.jahim (male only), 

 Duller (nee Moore), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1S68, p. 609, n. 58. 



Habitat : North India. 

 Expanse : 2"5 inches. 



Description : "Male. Upperside dark olive-brown. Foreimtg with the basal marks 

 black, two transverse discal suffused black lines, the interspace anteriorly being brownish 

 white. Hindiuing with the basal marks and two transverse discal sinuous lines black, the 

 space between the outer line of the latter and the exterior margin of the wing slaty blue. 

 Underside greenish grey, suffused with yellow. Fomving dull chrome-yellow medially ; 

 markings as above, black, the transverse series on the forewing formed inwardly by irregular- 

 shaped marks, and outwardly by suffused spots terminating anteriorly with white spots ; those 

 on the hindwing by increasing black spots surrounded with slaty blue." {Moore, 1. c.) 



This species differs only from the same sex of E. appiades on the upperside in having the 

 space between the discal black bands of the forewing anteriorly brownish white; on the 

 underside the outer discal macular band of the forewing terminates anteriorly with white 

 spots ; the inner band is formed of almost complete ring-spots as in E. xiphiones. 



Mr. Butler in his Monograph of the genus states that E. fahnu is the female of this 

 species, and gives the habitat of it as follows :— " ? , Darjeeling ; $ , North India (^Moore^. $ $ , 



• Described .is a distinct species under the name of Adoltas sedeva 



\ In Proc Zool. Soc. Loud., 1865, Mr. Moore correctly gave his A. sedeva as a synonym of A. a/fiades. 



