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and more or less dentated hind-wings, a little longer than 

 broad. A great number are brown above, with straight or 

 zig-zag brown lines ; the males of several species have blue 

 borders to the wings, which become narrower and often cease 

 before reaching the costa of the fore-wings. Many species 

 are broadly white towards the borders and intersected with 

 a zig-zag black line. Some species are ornamented with red 

 spots below, and sometimes also above, while the larger ones, 

 which measure four inches in expanse or thereabouts, are 

 generally brown or greenish-brown, with white or pale yellow 

 markings. The larvae feed on the mango as well as on other 

 less familiar plants. 



Tanaecia, Butler, differs from Euthalia, chiefly in the ter- 

 minal joint of the palpi being slender and bristle-shaped 

 instead of obtusely pointed. The species are not very nu- 

 merous, and inhabit the Malay Peninsula, and the large adjacent 

 islands of Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. These Butterflies are 

 generally under three inches in expanse, and resemble the 

 section of Euthalia in which the males are brown with a blue 

 border, and the females have a bluish- white band towards the 

 margins, intersected by a zig-zag line. 



SymphodrO) Hiibner, has short fore-wings, with the costa very 

 slightly oblique, and very slightly, if at all, emarginate ; the 

 hind-wings are regularly rounded and dentated, but the species 

 differ much from Euthalia in the arrangement of their colour 

 and markings. One of the smallest and commonest species 

 is the Indian S> nais (Forster) which measures a little more 

 than two inches across the wings. It is of a rich fulvous colour, 

 with a narrow black border, two short black stripes running 

 from the costa of the fore-wings, and a black line or row of 

 dots beyond ; the under side is darker, with some yellowish 

 marks. Another, and larger, species, S. ceropa (Linn.), which is 

 met with in the Moluccas, and is found as far as Australia, is 



