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nnd immediately beyond this cincture anotlier marginal ill-defined fascia opaline-whitish, but 

 more violascent. Hiuii'Min;:; with the liasal markings almost as in A. aconthca, but the sub- 

 costal longer, the fascia of the upperside but opaline-whitish, divided by another ochraceous 

 [fascia], the black dots on the folds near to the fuscous cincture scarcely conspicuous, the 

 border immediately beyond tliis much paler." 



"Larger than the Javan A. aconthca, Cramer; the inner margin of both wings longer, 

 the outer margin of the forewing less curved." {Fcltier, 1. c.) 



This species is quite unknown to me and also to Mr. Moore. The male will probably 

 generally resemble that sex of A. aconthca, which is of the same type as the male of A. acontius ; 

 the former is however nearly uniform paler brown on the upperside with darker dentate 

 discal bands, the space enclosed between them being scarcely perceptibly paler than the rest 

 of the wing, and the discal series of white spots is obsolete. On the underside the discal dark 

 bands of the forewing are continuous dentate lines, not series of dentate spots ; in Cramer's 

 figure these lines are also continuous on the hindwing, but in a male specimen from Java 

 in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, the inner line is obsolete and the outer is represented 

 by a series of dots placed on the folds. 



The remaining species of the genus are typical of the robust-bodied section ; in almost 

 all of them the male has some small white discal spots or streaks beyond the cell of the 

 forewing ; and the female has a more or less prominent oblique white discal band on the fore- 

 wing. The underside in both sexes is pale brown, and in the females the dark discal bands 

 of the hindwing are more obsolete, and the bluish suffusion when present is on the outer 

 margin, except in the first species, E. acontius, in which it covers almost the entire wing. 



In E. acontius the female has in addition to the white oblique discal fascia of the forewing 

 a broad white discal band on both wings, in which the discal fascia of the forewing is merged 

 at its lower end. 



512. Eutlialia acontius, i-iewitson, 



AdoUas acontius, Hewitson, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fourth series, vol. xiv, p. 357(1874); Idem id., 

 Ex. Butt., vol. V, Adolias pi. iv, fig. ii, female (1875) ; id., Wood-Mason and de NiceTille, Joura. A. S. B., vol. 

 I, pt. ii, p. 247, n. 42 (1881) ; Tanaecia acontius, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1S77, p. 586. 



Habitat : South Andamans. 



Expanse : ^, 272 to 2-80 ; ? , 3'i to 3*4 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside almost black, the ground-colour being very dark 

 brown of a bronzy tint, and the prominent cellular and basal marks, the outer margins, and 

 the common discal and submarginal submacular bands velvety-black, the former of the two 

 last-named bounded externally at its anterior end by a series of four indistinct U-shaped 

 white marks, and the latter provided at its inner and anterior extremity with two small 

 elongated subcostal white spots (the posterior of which is the laiger), and, in the hindwing, 

 composed of distinct subelongate spots each with an inconspicuous dash paler than the 

 surrounding ground-colour at either end. The hindzving strongly glossed with dark greenish- 

 purple anteriorly. Underside much as in A. \_=E.'\ garuda, but both zuings more strongly 

 glossed with amethyst-purple submarginally, and having their basal half coloured greyish-green 

 and conspicuously marked with black as in the female." (IVood-Masoti and de Niccville, 1. c.) 

 " Female. Upperside dark rufous brown. Foravmg with the usual spots in the cell : crossed 

 from the middle of the costal margin to a little beyond the first median nervule (towards the anal 

 angle) by a band (broader as it proceeds) of seven white spots— the first minute, the last, 

 which is below the median nervure, small : a band of three spots, commencing near the 

 apex, joins the band just described at its fourth spot : crossed towards the outer margin by 

 a series of black pyramidal spots, bordered inwardly (between them and the white band) 

 by lilac ; the last black spot near the anal angle bordered on both sides with lilac. 

 Hindzving crossed beyond the middle by a broad lilac band, irrorated with white and 

 bordered outwardly by a series of lunular black spots, which have below them hastate lilac 

 spots. Underside lilac-white, Fore-wing with the bands as above, bordered by pale 



