EUPLCEA. 23 



spots are white, while near to the pre-costal nervure there is one 

 small white spot. 



Exp., 3- 1 inches. 



Hab. Matabele Land to Nyasa Land. 



This species has recently been obtained in Nyasa Land by 

 Mr. H. H. Johnston, and from one of his specimens in the 

 British Museum the figure has been taken. 



GENUS EUPLCEA. 



Euplcca, Fabr. in Illiger's Mag., vi., p. 280 (1807) > Doubl., Gen. 

 Diurn. Lepid., p~ 86 (1847); Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1866, p. 268; Moore, op. "/., 1883, p. 288 ; Schatz, Exot. 

 Schmett, ii., p. 80 (1886). 



Macroplcea, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool., xiv., p. 292 (1878) ; 

 Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, i., p. 9 (1880). 



The type is 



EUPLCEA CORUS. 



Papilio corns, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., iii., pt. i, p. 41, no. 122 



(1793)' 



Eupl&a elisa, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. 270, 



no. 4 ; Marsh. & De NiceVille, Butterflies Ind., i., p. 72, pi. 



8, fig. 14 (1882). 

 Macroplota elisa, Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, i., p. 9, pi. 5, fig. 2 



(1880). 

 Euplcea cents, Moore, Lepid. Ind., i., p. 107, pi. 37, figs, i, la, 



ib. (1890; transf.). 



This is a large brown species from Ceylon, measuring over 

 four inches across the wings, on which are several rows of 

 sub-marginal white spots. The fore-wings in this genus are 

 rather long, and the hind-margins are gradually curved on all 



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