220 NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALIN.E. EU THALIA. 



Tliese white marl<ings are exactly the same as in the male of E. phemlus, as mentioned by 

 Fclder. The female is paler than the male, the discal band narrower and outwardly curved 

 on both wings, the outer band of the hindwing lunular. The white markings of the fore- 

 wing as in the male. 



E. jatiia is a rare species. It occurs in Sikkim and Bhutan, Mr. S. E. Peal has sent it 

 from Sibsagar, it occurs in the Naga Hills, Mr. Wood-Mason took it on Nemotha, Cachar, in 

 September, and Felder records it from Malacca interior and Banca. 



Mr. Distant (probably following Mr. Butler) has described and figured under the name of 

 £. y(7/;/rt a species closely allied to £. aZ/Zi^a'^?, but apparently quite distinct from A. jama in 

 both the sexes from the absence of the fine white lines on the upperside of the forewing de- 

 scribed above. His description is given below.* 



The two remaining species are very distinct both from each other and from all the other 

 Indian species of the genus, E. lubentina has in both sexes the wings marked on both 

 sides with beautiful crimson spots ; the female has the white oblique discal band very broad 

 and macular extending into the discoidal cell. E. anosia in both sexes has the upperside 

 profusely irrorated with grey, not confined to a discal band as in E, kesava and E. discispilota, 

 but spread over the greater portion of both wings. In outline too the apex is much more 

 acute than in any other species of this section, and the forewing more emarginate on the 

 outer margin ; in the female the forewing is distinctly falcate, and in both sexes the lower 

 half of the outer margin of the forewing is more convex j the forewing is longer and the 

 hindwing broader than in the other species of this section. 



517. Butialia luTDOntina, Cramer. (Vol. I, Plate II, Pupa). 



P«/«7w /«*««^?»'». Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. ii, pi. civ, figs. C, D (^.^^^), female ; '\di., Fabricius, Sp. Ins., 

 vol. ii, p. 91. n. 403 (1781) ; idem, id., Mant. Ins., vol. ii, p. 49, n. 486(1787) ; idem, id., Ent. Syst., vol. iii, 

 pt. i, p. 121, n. 370 (1793) ; id., Donovan, Ins. China, pi. xxxvi, fig. 3 (1799), male ; Enthalia lubentina, Hiibner, 

 Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 41, n. 358 (i8i6) ; id., Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 31, pi. xvi, figs, i, male ; la, 

 female ; 16, larva and /u/a (1881) ; id., Distant,' Rhop. Malay., p. 128, pi. xiv, fig. 4, male (18S3); Nymphalis 

 lubentina, Godart, Enc. M^th., vol. ix, p. 400, n. 172 (1S19) ; Adolias lubentina, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. 

 Mus. E. I. C.I vol. i, p. i83, n. 379, pi. xii, figs. 13, /arj/* ; X3a, /«/« (1857) ; id., Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. 

 B. M., p. 88, n. I (1869). 



Habitat : India, Ceylon, (?) Malay Peninsula, China, 

 Expanse: (J, 2*3 to 3-0; ?, 25 to 3*35 inches. 



Description : " Male and female. Upperside dark greenish-brown, paler and 

 aenescent externally, Foteioing with short black transverse discoidal streaks and two dull 

 scarlet interspaces, a black spot below the cell, three white spots beyond the cell, and a 



• Euthalia jama. Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. iig, n. 4, pi. xiv, fig. 8, male ; pl.xv, fig. ^,fe7itale (1883). 

 Habitat: Province Weilesley, Malacca. Expansr : yJ/a/^, 2"7 ly^wrt/i?, 2*8 inches. Description: "Male. 

 UppBRSIde fuliginous-brown. Foreiving with a black line crossing cell near base and apparently continued 

 between the median and submedian nervures, a dark brown spot crossing middle of cell, the margins of which are 

 black, and which is rounded and closed posteriorly ; a somewhat similar spot at end of cell ; two similarly margined 

 spots obliquely, but not quite, crossing cell of /i/«(/7t//«^ ; a dark brown oblique fascia crossing disc, commenc- 

 ing near termination of cell (where there is an indistinct bronzy area), and terminating on inner margin, 

 about one-third from base ; this is followed by a somewhat narrower oblique fascia crossing both wings, com- 

 mencing near apex of forewing and termniating on hindwing near the abdominal margin at about one-third 

 from anal angle : this fascia is widened at inner margin of forewing. Hindwing with a much-waved, narrow, 

 dark submarginal fascia, and outer margins of both wings distinctly darker. Underside pale greenish 

 ochraceous : cellular markings as above. Forewing -with a rounded spot beneath cell on inner side of first 

 median nervule and a smaller dark spot on outer side of that nervule. Hindwing with a looped spot beneath 

 and near the base of costal nervure, followed by a smaller rounded spot beneath the first subcostal nervule, and 

 a curved black line beneath the base of second subcostal nervule ; fasciae above very indistinctly and narrowly 

 seen beneath. Body and legs more or less concolourous with wings. Female pale brownish ; cellular mark- 

 ings as in male. Forewing with a broad pale fascia, occupying a space equivalent to that between the extreme 

 margins of the two discal pale fasciae in male: — the fascia is pale, obscure, bluish above the second median 

 nervule, and pale brownish beneath that nervule, and its outer margin is brown and prominently waved and 

 angulated : at costa it possesses an irregular shaped medial, and a somewhat similar outer subolivaceous spot, the 

 last almost continued to apex above the fourth subcostal nervule. Hijidwing with fasciae as in male, but 

 which are paler and narrower. Underside as above but paler ; markings similar, but more indistinct. Hind- 

 wing with the outer-cellular markings as in male." 



" This is but a local race of the Javan E. alpheda, Godart, and differs principally in the female sex. 

 Mr. Butler, from an examination of Captain Pinwill's collection, remarked that in Malacca the "species 

 appears to be common," but in Province Weilesley— judging from collections— it appears to be a scarce insect," 

 (Distunt, I. c ) 



