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in British Museum, Syllict and Daijeeling." The female of E. halaramn, should it ever he 

 discovered, is almost cerlaia to have the outer discal band on both wings straight ; in 

 E. jahim, which I have no doubt whatever is the female of E. sanamia, it is highly 

 lunulate. My knowledge of E. balaraina is confined to what has been published regarding it» 

 but I have a suspicion tliat it is a " sport" only of E. appiades. Mr. Moore believes E. baUirama 

 to be a good species of which his E. sedeva is the female, but I cannot agree with him, E. sedcva 

 is inseparable from the normal form of E. appiades, female, in which the white spots are obsolete. 



504. Eutlialia siphiones, Butler. 



Adolias xipkiones,'RM\.\cr,Vroc. Zool. Soc. Lond., iS6S, p. 609, n, 60, pi. xlv, fig. 6, ;««/« ; A, fxirvata, 

 Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1S7S, p. S31, pi. Hi, fig. 3, femxle. 



Habitat : Moulmein, Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse : i', 275 to 2-90 ; ? , 275 to 3-20 inches. 



Description : " Male. Allied to A. [==£■.] apiades, smaller. Upperside more obscure 

 chestnut-fuscous, the discal lines of the foretoing nearer together, Hindwing with the green 

 marginal band much broader. Underside, Jorewing yellowish at the base, the dots near 

 the apex whitish. Hindwing with the entire ground-colour yellow, the spots of the anal 

 area circled with blue, otherwise as in E. apiades. Body fuscous above, whitish below. 

 Allied to E. apiades and E. jahnu, male [Mr. Butler here refers to E. balarama\ but differing 

 considerably from both." Qh'uiier, I.e.) Female. Differs from that sex of E. appiades in 

 being smaller, the discal bands nearer together, the space between them on either side of the 

 lower discoidal nervule always more or less whitish (in some examples of /?. appiades also it is 

 equally white), the outer edge of the inner black discal band also sometimes marked with 

 whitish. Underside having much the same differences as above, the discal bands on the 

 hindwing somewhat more even. 



In Major Marshall's collection are three males of this species taken by Captain C. T. 

 Bingham in the Thoungyeen Forests, Upper Tenasserim, in December. They differ chiefly 

 from E. appiades in that the marginal blue band is wider, entirely covering the outer discal 

 black band from the anal angle to the discoidal nervule, and on the underside the inner 

 discal band of the forewing is formed of almost complete ring-spots between the first median 

 and lower discoidal nervules. There are also two females of this species from Meplay, one 

 from Donat taken in January, two from the Upper Thoungyeen Forests taken in April, two 

 from Thoungyeen taken in March, and one from Sekkan, Thoungyeen, taken in February, all cap- 

 tured by Captain C. T. Bingham, in Major Marshall's collection. They show considerable varia- 

 tion in the extent of the white markings between the discal bands of the forewing, and it appears 

 to be a scantily white-marked example that Mr. Moore has described and figured as E. pai-vaia 

 as below.* E. xiphiones is a smaller species than E. appiades, and the male is blacker ; the 

 female differs in the outline of the wings, the forewing having the apex more acute and the 

 inner margin shorter than in E. appia ies, but the colouration is the same, and the variations 

 in extent of the white patches of the forewing are equally exhibited in both. 



E. ramada, from the Malay peninsula, appears to belong to this group ; the male has the 

 margin of the hindwing blue on the upperside, but the discal spots are not ringed with blue on 

 the underside ; the description is appended. + The female is unknown, 



E. laventii also from the Malay peninsula appears to be intermediate between this group 

 and the next ; in outline it corresponds with this group, and the markings of the female are 



* Adolias parvata,'^\oax&, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 187S, p. 831, pi. Hi, fig. 3, fonale. Habitat: Upper 

 Tenasserim, Meetan, 3,000 ft (April). Expanse: /rwa/^, 275 inches. Dfscriptio.-< : "Female. Allied to 

 A. [=£■.] sedeva,_ Moore. Upperside differs on the /ore2ct'/rg, in the discal band being n.-irrower, the costal 

 portion only partially whitish, and the lower portion without the whitish inner border. Underside, 

 with the band on the yo^ny/w^ only partially white anteriorly, the lower portion with a slight white 

 lunule to the inner border, and white point with black tip to outer border." \Moare, 1. c. ) 



t Euthalia ramnda. Adolias ramada^ Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. , new series, vol. v. p. 69, n. 12, pt. iv, fiff. 

 5, male (1859) ; id , Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 605, n. 37 ; Euthalia ramadii, Distant, Rhop Malay.] 

 p. 122, n. 8, pi. xix, fig. s, ww/iT (1883). Habitat : Perak, Malacca. Expansb : I'g 102-2 inches. Description : 

 •'Male. Upperside dark glossy olive-brown. ./="or^r(//«^ with the discoidal marks black, olive-green within ; 

 from posterior margin near angle upwards powdered with green, with a medial zig-zag black line. Hindwing 

 with outer margin broadly from abdominal margin to near anterior angle blue, the anterior angle being pale brown") 



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