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extremelj' oblique thence to the base ; cell very broad ; discocellulars 

 concave, discoidal spur obsolete : hind wing triangular ; the costal 

 margin long, apex somewhat angular, exterior margin regularly 

 convex ; with a large oval pale upper discoidal glandular patch. 



Type E. corns, Fabr. 



iVoie.— Hiibner (Verz, p. 16), Doubleday (Genera D. Lep. p. 88), 

 Scudder (Hist. Sketch of Generic Names of Butterflies, p. 172), 

 Kirby(Syn. Catal. p. 10), and Butler (Linn. Journ., Zool. xiv. p. 291) 

 have each taken the P. core of Cramer to be the same species as the 

 P. coras of Faoricius, both Mr. Scudder and Mr. Butler citing core 

 as the typical representative of the Fabrician genus Eujylcea. Mr. 

 Butler, however, thougli having previously (Catal. Fabrician Lep. in 

 British-Museum Collection, p. 1, i869)"aoted that the P. corns of 

 Fabricius had no connexion with the P. core of Cramer, and referred 

 the former species to a local form of the female of Euplcea plue- 

 nureta, subsequently overlooked this important fact in his revision 

 of the group published in the ' Linnean Journal,' wherein the P. 

 core of Cramer is cited as typically representing the genus Euplcea. 

 This erroneous identification I myself followed in the recently pub- 

 lished part of the 'Lepidoptera of Ceylon,' i. p. 11. Having since 

 gone more fully into the study of the entire group of these interest- 

 ing Butterflies, the distinction of the two above-cited species {corns 

 and core) became apparent to me, the comparison of the descriptions 

 resulting in the determination that the Fabrician species corus is 

 identical with th^ iemale oi Macroploea elisa, a totally different insect 

 and pertaining to a different section of the group, from that of the 

 core of Cramer. 



1. Euplcea PHCEBTJS. 



Eujilcea phcebus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 2/0. 



Macroploea phoehus, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 292 

 (1878). 



Euplcea castelnaui, Felder,ReiseNovara, Lep. ii. p. 315, $ (1867) ; 

 Distant, Rhopalocera Malayaua, p. 24, pi. 2. f. 6, $ . 



Euploea {Macroj)loea) castelnaui, Marshall and de NiceviUe, Butt, 

 of Lidia, p. 72(1882). 



Hah. Assam (Cherrapunji), British Burmah, Malay peninsula, 

 Peuang, Kar Nicobar, Sumatra, Java. 



2. Euplcea corus. 



Papilio corus, Fabricius, Ent. Svst. iii. p. 41 (1793), $ . 



Euplcea corns, Fabr. Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 280 (1807). 



Danais cora, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 178. 



Euplcea elisa, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 270. 



Macroplo3a elisa, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 293 ; 

 Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 9, pi. 5. f. 2. 



Euplosa (Macroploea) elisa, Marshall and de NiceviUe, Butt, of 

 India, p. 72, pi. 8. f. 14, 6 (1882). 



Hab. Ceylon. 



