24 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



the wings, so that Mr. Butler has named one of them E. semi- 

 circulus. 



The species which were formerly included in Euplcea, but 

 have lately been divided into several genera, are numerous in 

 the Indian and Austro-Malayan Regions, but are very sparingly 

 represented in Madagascar and the adjacent islands. They do 

 not extend to America or Europe, nor apparently even to the 

 mainland of Africa. Their wings are always rounded and 

 entire, never angulated or dentated; sometimes long, but some- 

 times so broad as to be almost round. They are generally of a 

 brown colour, with more or less extensive white, blue, or tawny 

 spots, and are often flushed with rich blue. The larvae much 

 resemble those of Danaus, &c., and are similarly provided with 

 fleshy filaments. 



An American writer gives an odd description of a black, 

 white-spotted species from New Guinea (E.papuana, Reakirt). 

 On the fore-wings there is " a submarginal row of seven chalk- 

 white spots, .... there are three minute dots, near the 

 margin, obliquely below the fourth, fifth, and sixth spots respect- 

 fully /" 



The rows of white or bluish spots above alluded to are very 

 frequent in this genus, and are sometimes arranged in rows 

 parallel to the hind margin, and sometimes in an irregular 

 circle about the middle of the wings, especially on the under 

 surface. 



The species of Eupl&a are mimicked by various species of 

 Papilio, Hypolimnas, Elymntas, &c., and by several Moths 

 belonging to the family Chalcosiida. 



GENUS HIRDAPA. 

 Hirdapa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 299. 



Type, Euplcca usipetes^ Hewitson. 

 The only species belonging to the old genus Euplcea for 



