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also in New Guinea as well as in India and on the Malayan 

 islands only one Stictoploea in each district, which excludes 

 the presence of a second species." In his appendix to this 

 subfamilj, however, published in 1911^ he records a second 

 species from the Phillippines. 



The Malaysian subregion has the following sub- 

 species : — 



E. d. harrisi Feld. 



E. d. mithrenes Fruhst. 

 E. d. convallaria Thieme 

 E. d. nica Fruhst. 

 E. d. tyrianthina Moore 

 E. d. lacordairei Moore 

 E. d. baweanica Fruhst. 



Malay Peninsula (to Siam, 

 Burma and Cochin-China) . 

 Sumatra. 

 Nias I. 

 Engano I. 

 Borneo. ' 



Java. 

 Bawean I. 



Subgenus Trepsichrois, Hiibn. 



The small patch of specialized scales in the cell of the 

 hind wing in the male and the white inter-nervular stripes 

 of the hind wing in the female are two striking characters 

 which will serve to distinguish the only Malay Peninsula 

 species of this subgenus. 



41. Euploea mulciber Cr. mulciber Cr. 



Euploea mulciber mulctbet Fruhstorfer 1910, p. 250. 

 Euploea midamus Distant 1882, p. 24. Tal>. U, figs. 8 ft 9. 

 Euploea mulciber Distant 1882, p. 29. Tab. lU, figs. 1 ft 2. 



Out of 156 examples from the F.M.S. Museums of this 

 common and widely distributed butterfly 141 were males, 

 15 females. In the RaflQes Museum there are 29 males 

 and 11 females. Both series cover the Malay Peninsula 

 from Kedah south to Singapore. There are none from 

 Tioman Island or Langkawi Islands in these local collec- 

 tions. 



Distrib. India to China and the Malay Peninsula, 

 with several well-marked subspecies in the Malay Archi- 

 pelago. Those occurring in the Malaysian subregion are : — 



E. m. mulciber Cr. 



E. m. vandeventeri Forbes 



£. m. verhuelli Moore 



E. m. maassi Hag. 



E. m, battmensis Fruhst. 



E. m. malakoni Doh. 



E. m. basilissa Cr. 



E. m. portia Fruhst. 



Malay Peninsula (to China 



and India). 

 Sumatra. 

 Nias I. 

 Mentawei Is. 

 Batu Is. 

 Engano 1. 



•Tava and Bawean I. 

 Borneo and Natuna Is. 



Subgenus Euploea, Fab. 



a. Small species with rounded fore wing. Exp. 



al. 70 mm. ledererL 



a\ Large species with pointed fore wings. Exp. 



al. 110-120 mm. ohoebus. 



* Fruhstorfer, 1911, pp. 276-277. 



