184 Mr. J. O. Westwood on the Oriental Species 



fulva (apice ipso fusco), omnibus subtiis strigis tribus sub- 

 aequiclistantibus, gracilibus obscuris serieque communi punc- 

 toriim alboruin, pone medium alarum, magnitudine et 

 numero irregularibus. 

 Expans. alar, antic, circ. unc. 3. 



Habitat China (Drury); India (Mas. Hunter, teste Fabr.) 

 Syn. Papilio {Dan. Festiv.) Eumeus, Drury, Exot. Ins. vol. i. 

 pi. 2, f. 3, and vol. 2, App. (1773); ditto. Edit. Westw. 

 vol. 1, p. 5. (^Hipparchia Eum.) 

 Papilio Eumea, Cramer, ii. p. 132, pi. 183, fig. c. D. 



(1779). 

 Papilio (Nymph.) Gripus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 149, 

 No. 457; Latreille et Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 497, 

 No. 70. 

 An old specimen in the Hopeian Collection, purchased from 

 that of Mr. Haworth, — by whom the attached label, with the loca- 

 lity " China," was written, — was, I have no doubt, one of the in- 

 dividuals described by Drury, with seven spots on each of the 

 hind wings, Drury's figure representing a specimen with five spots 

 on each of the four wings ; his description, however, indicates the 

 variation of five or seven spots. 



Drury's figure does not represent the sub-basal dark striga, 

 which is, indeed, almost obsolete on the fore wings, nor does he 

 represent the strigse on the hind wings. 



Cramer's insect from China is evidently identical with Drury's, 

 although there is a difference in the intensity of the strigae, of 

 which the subbasal one is also not represented by Cramer. 



Fabricius described the species from the collection of Dr. 

 Hunter, and as a native of India. His description accords with 

 Drury's figure. He describes the spots on the underside of the 

 hind wings as larger than those of the fore wings. 



In the British Museum collection is a specimen from Hong 

 Kong 2^ inches in expanse, rich brown above, with the oblique 

 fulvous subapical fascia of the fore wings more oblique, and with 

 the strigae of the hind wings nearly obsolete except the middle 

 one of the hind wings, and the spots are round, large, and whitish. 

 Larger specimens from Assam, and another from India, in the 

 Hopeian Collection at Oxford, and the British Museum, measure 

 four inches in expanse, and have the broad, oblique, fulvous fascia 

 of the fore wings but ill-defined, and gradually shaded off^ to the 

 darker ground colour of the wings. The three strigae of the 

 underside are distinct : the outer one more angulated : the white 

 spots are of unequal size : the fifth in the fore wings, and the first 



