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originally erroneously described by Drury as inhabiting Suri- 

 man. The fore-wings are black, with one or two blue spots at 

 the base, and five yellow ones beyond. Beyond these, the ner- 

 vures are very broadly red, with numerous white spots placed 

 within their forks ; and there is a sub-marginal row of oblong 

 white spots, each bisected by a nervure. The hind-wings are 

 black to beyond the middle, and marked with several white 

 spots bordered with blue ; the hind margin is broadly bordered 

 with brilliant mazarine blue, traversed by a row of divided sub- 

 marginal white spots, similar to those on the fore-wings. On 

 the under surface, the white spots are much more numerous, 

 and bordered with blue. The head and thorax are bluish-black, 

 and the abdomen is green, with the penultimate segment 

 blue. 



This species has a distant resemblance to a Euplcea ; but 

 there are several other East Indian genera, such as Epyrgis, 

 Herrich-Schaffer, and Mimenplaa^ Butler, which present such 

 a striking likeness to various blue and brown species of Euplcea 

 and the allied genera, that no one who was not an entomo- 

 logist would imagine that one was a Butterfly and another a 

 Moth, unless he happened to notice the antennae. Other 

 species are much more Moth-like, as, for example, the harle- 

 quin-coloured Campy lofes histrionicus, Westwood, another Hima- 

 layan form allied to Erasmia and Amesia, but with narrower 

 and less rounded wings, with but one nervule thrown off from 

 the lower discoidal cell of the fore- wings, which throws off two 

 branches at about equal distances before the hind margin. It 

 is black, with longitudinal red and yellow streaks and spots 

 between the nervures ; and with large white spots towards the 

 tip of the fore-wings. In some genera of Chalcosiidce, such as 

 Histia,) Hiibner, and Elcysma, Elwes, the hind-wings are pro- 

 duced into a long broad tail. In colour, they are very various, 

 ranging from white to black. I have already spoken of the 



