280 EUPHYIA. By L. B. Peout. 



very sharply contrasted and the pale area wliich separates the median liand from the basal area is nanow, the 

 latter area being extended by the inclusion of two strong s^iibbasal lines; subterminal inconiiilete. punctiform. 

 Ta-tsien-lu. 



mordax. P. tTlordax sp. 11. {21 k). Expanse 22 — 26 mm. In general coloration, as well as the number and ap- 



proximately the position of the lines, the small and punctiform (in part well isolated) subterminal marks and 

 the strength of the double fuscous line between basal patch and antemedian, suggestive of iiironspicuaria, but 

 very distinct. PaljDus scarcely so long. Head and base of abdomen j)ale er whitish. Postmedian of forewing 

 with less strong central projection outward, subterminal with conspicuous, though not very large, white spot 

 on and behind the 3rd radial. Underside more strongly marked than in inconspicKaria, the hindwing with strong 

 broad postmedian and subterminal lines, the former markedly sinuous, a faint and slender line between them. 

 Tibet: Kama Valley. 12 000 feet, 22 June 1922 (E. F. Norton), 5 ö"(J in the British Museum, frcmi the Mount 

 Everest expedition. 



26. Genus: I^iipliyia Hhn. 



(See Vol. 4. p. 244; Suppl.-Vol. 4, p. 145: Vol. l(i, p. 91.) 



Face generally with slight tuft below. Palpus shortish or moderate, rarely more elongate. Antenna of (^ 

 simple or very shortly ciliate. Abdomen not or scarcely crested. Wing-margins smooth or slightly waved; 

 forewing with areole double; hindwing with discocellulars not biangulate. As at present classified. an extensive 

 genus, largely Palaearctic and Indo-Australian; most of the South American species which have been placed 

 here may probably be separable by characters of the palpus, etc. ; but a few North American are certianly con- 

 generic with the European. Genotype; tlie Eurojiean picafn Hhn. 



variegaia. E. variegata Moore. (27 k). A moderately large species, the forewing dull greenish. the rather broad 



dark median band with its edges on the wdiole more irregulär than in its nearest allies and marked, especially 

 the distal edge, with somewhat conspicuous white dots or teeth at the veins. Hindwing predominantly grey, 

 anteriorly somewhat relieved with whitish; a whitish subterminal indicated. Underside of forewing less, of 

 hindwing more, strongly marked than upper. Antenna of ^ shortly ciliated. Simla to Bhotan, the type from 

 Sikkim. Single 5$ from Chia-kou-ho (W. China) and Sultanpur seeni to agres with it. 



viridis. E. viridis Warr. (27 k), treated by Hampson (possibly with justification) as a green form oi scortea, lias 



nearly always a more sharply defined line bounding the basal area, less jagged edges of the median band, with 

 little or no white scaling, and less variegated distal area, the subterminal lunules less developed, as also the 

 black marks which accompany them proximally and distally. Hindwing more brownish than in variegata and 

 almost unicolorous. Underside also on the whole slightly more bro^\^lish than in variegata, both wings well 

 marked, the less strong central projection of the postmedian line generally noticeable. Siklvim (type) and com- 



solida. mon in the Khasis, where it varies consideralily in size, on the whole smaller than variegata. — ab. solida 

 nov. is an occasional form, parallel to some which I have so named in other Larentiines ; with the median band 

 (sometimes also the basal) solidly darkened, the green areas on either siele of it almost devoid of markings. 

 Khasis; type ,^ in the British Museum. 



scorfea. E. SCOrtca Swinh. (27 k). Most of the above differentiation from variegata appHes also here, but the 



ground-colour is brownish, the size and markings less variable, the median band on the whole broader, occasion- 

 ally a little more resembling in its outline tliat of variegata. Described from the Khasis, where the oo have 

 been taken in great numbers; also known from Kulu and British Bhotan. I have a $ from Laukhaung, Upper 

 Burma, which seems to belong here. 



obscura. E. obscura Butl. (= butleri Leech) (see Vol. 4, p. 252). Considerably smaller than tlie jjreceeding group, 



palpus shorter (reaching very little beyond face), cj antenna simple; antemedian line less curved. The name- 

 typical form, based on a Yokohama ?, besides being iniusually large, is nearly unicolorous, the median band 

 subobsrtira. almost luiiformly suffused, but such an aberration could occur anywhere. — ab. (form, princ.) subobscura Front 

 (Vol. 4, pl. 11 f, as obscura) is the usual Japanese form and is recorded also from Szechuan; median area of 

 miiJtilinea. forewing lighter, etc. — miiltilinea Hmps. (= multilineata Hmps.). described from the Nilgiris, is very variable, 

 but probably a tenable race by the dark underside. though even this is occasionally closely approached by 

 aberrations of fecunda. On an average rather smaller and with the upperside rather brighter, more varied and 



fecunda. more strongly marked than in the name-typical race. S. India and Ceylon. — fecunda Suinh. (27 k). Also ex- 

 tremely variable, perhaps almost a synonym of o. obscura. but generally rather greener, more strongly marked, 

 Avith more black marking, offen a black cell-dot. N. India, the type from the Khasis. 



nyctidiroa. E. nyctichroa Hmps. (27 k) is smaller and darker, more uniform, the postmedian much more sinuous in 



its anterior part, the subterminal scarcely widened at the tornus, etc. Besides the type o from the Palnis, I 

 know only a $ from Belgaum and another from Khandalla. 



