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bar on the fore-wings, and a sub-marginal row of spots ; on 

 the hind-wings there are two rows of sub-marginal spots, 

 and long white streaks radiating from the base between the 

 nervures. This insect greatly resembles the female of Danisepa 

 rhadamanthus (Fabr.), which belongs to one of the genera 

 allied to Euplcea. 



Several very handsome species which are now generally 

 referred to Euripus are met with in Japan ; but they are very 

 unlike the small E. halitherses which we have just described. 

 The hind-margins of the fore-wings are only slightly and 

 regularly concave, and the hind-wings are broad, regularly 

 curved, and dentated, but not angulated or emarginate. 

 Among these is . charonda of Hewitson, one of the largest 

 and most beautiful Butterflies found in Japan, measuring from 

 four and a half to six inches across the wings. The female, 

 which is considerably larger than the male, is dark brown, with 

 large ochreous spots, which become white towards the base; from 

 the middle of the base of the fore-wings runs a slender white 

 line. There is a sub-marginal row of ochreous spots round all 

 the wings, largest on the hind ones. On the fore-wings there 

 are three oblique bands of larger spots, the first consisting of 

 a dumb-bell-shaped spot in the cell, with two larger ones below ; 

 the second runs from before the middle of the costa to the 

 lower sub-marginal spots, and the outermost meets the sub- 

 marginal spots at a third of their length. The hind-wings have 

 three .rows of spots, the second rather irregular above, the 

 innermost composed of very large spots below, and very small 

 ones above. The male is similar, but is rich blue on all the 

 wings, from the base to the second row of spots ; all the spots 

 on the blue ground are white, and there is a large red spot at 

 the anal angle of the hind-wings. 



This splendid insect flies very high, and it is difficult to 

 obtain good specimens of it. It is most easily taken when 



