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2\6 NYMPHALID.Ii. NYMrilALIN.E. EUTIIALIA, 



ocliieous brown. Hmd^oiiii; with five subbnsal spots, bordered with black ; the transverse 

 band indistinct, except near the costal margin, where it has a rufous border on both sides." 

 Qf/exa/fson, 1. c. in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist.) 



JS. acontius is a rare species even in the Andaman Isles, to which it seems to be 

 confined. The male is hardly distinguishable on llie upperside from E, vasania, but all 

 the markings on the underside are niore prominent, and there is a complete inner discal 

 series of bluish-white lunules inwardly edged with dark brown on the forewing, and the wings 

 are glossed with purple. The female is widely different from any species of this group, 

 having a broad white band across the disc of both wings on both upper and under sides. 



E. decorata is a somewhat allied species occurring in the Malay peninsula. The des- 

 cription of it is given below. * 



In the next species, E. ganula, the male is very similar to that of E. acoutius, but in the 

 female the white discal band of the forewing is redu^ ed to a short series of white spots 

 along the inner edge of the pale discal area from the cc (i to the second median nervule, 

 and the hind wing has no white markings. 



513. Euthalia garuda, Moore. (Vol. I, Plate II, Larva). 



AdoUas garu-da, Moore, Horsflcld and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus, E. I. C, vol. i, p. 186, n. 374, pi. vi, flgs. 2, 

 lar^'a ; 2a, f>u/ia (\^si) ', idem, id., Trans, Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, vol. v, p. 64, n. 3, pi. iii, fig. 2, male and 

 female (1859); id., Butler. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 18G8. p. 603, n. 21 ; £'/<Mrt//a^arj^n'(i, Moore, Lep. Cey., 

 vol. i. p. 32, pi. xvi, figs. 2, male ; 2(J, female (1881); id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 117, n. 3, pi. xiv, fig. i, 

 tKalt ; 2, female (1S83). 



Habitat : India, Ceylon, Burma, Province Wellesley, Malacca, Java. 



Expanse : ^, 2*40 to 2-85 ; ? , 2*9 to 3-3 inches. 



Description: " Male: Upperside glossy greenish-brown. Forewing with costal 

 margin to its middle, a broad irregular band from thence to posterior margin, black, the latter 

 bordered exteriorly, anteriorly from costal nervure, with five white spots ; two small white spots 

 on costal margin one-fourth from the apex ; exterior margin and submarginal band blackish ; 

 within discoidal cell, first a short line, then two reniform marks, black. Hindioing with 

 curved dentate blackish band from middle of anterior margin to near abdominal margin ; a 

 submarginal row of small deep black spots ; exterior margin near anal angle blackish ; within 

 discoidal cell some black markings, and two small black spots without, one above, the other 

 below the cell. Underside light chocolate-brown, greyish towards the base. ForrMing \i\\}\ 

 black marks within discoidal cell as above, and a small black spot below it ; the row of five 

 white spots and the two apical spots as above ; from the latter, across the disc to posterior 

 margin, runs a narrow interrupted black band ; at the apex and along the exterior margin 

 some bluish-grey spots. Hindwing with four lines within discoidal cell, a small spot, and 

 two oval marks above, black ; an indistinct band across the disc ; submarginal row of black 

 spots as above ; a patch of bluish-grey at anterior angle. Female pale brown, with a 

 greenish gloss. Upperside with markings as in male, but less defined ; the row of white 

 spots oi \.hQ fonu'ing are larger, and the submarginal row of black spqts on the hindwing 

 are also larger than in the male. Underside as in that of the male. ^Wings shaped as 

 in Adolias \_=Euthalid\ aconthea" {Moore, I. c. in Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C.) 



* Euthalia decorata. Adolias decorates, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., i8C8, p. 605, n. 39, pi. xlv, figs. 2, 

 male; 9, female; Euthalia decorata, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 122, n. 7 (with a woodcut o( a female), pi. xiv, 

 fig. 9, male (1883). Habitat : Province Wellesley, Singapore. Expanse : Male, 2'i5 to 2-2s ■, female, 2-90 to 3*00 

 inches. Descriftion ; "Male. Ui'perside fuscous. Fo7-e2ving with the costa greenish, the usual basal 

 markings, an irregular hastate green discal band including fuscous macular liturse, outwardly defined with whitish 

 and margined with fuscous, beyond with pale scales slightly margined with fuscous. Hindwing with a regular 

 fascia near the apex snowy-white outwardly defined with a lunular line, at the apex outwardly bordered by three 

 violet lunules, the anal area squarely bronzy-green. Underside, botli wings yellowish, a common band bronzy- 

 whitish, the apex of the forewing bronzy-green. Female. Wings much larger. Upperside fuscous, the 

 band much broader whitish, and in the /!/«rt'w/«^ inwardly more irregular. Undbrsids with the band as on 

 upperside green, margined with opalescent fuscous; the basal area yellow, the markings blackish-fuscous; 

 the outer margin to the band altogether whitish opalescent. Body fuscous above, whitish below." 



" Allied to -.4. ia//rt, Moore, from Java, but very distinct ; the underside of the niale much like that of .i4 . 

 bipunctata, VoUenhoven, from Borneo." (Butler, 1. c.) 



" The males of this species vary in hue ; specimens from Province Welleslpy being paler than the Singapore 

 type as delineated by Mr. Butler ; the greyish fascia to the forewing of the former also appears 10 be slightly 

 broader than that as portrayed in the latter," {Diitant, 1. c.) 



