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ON NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN BUTTERFLIES, 



MOSTLY FROM THE ORIENTAL REGION. 



/ 

 By Lionel db Niceville, f.e.s., c.m.z.s., &c. 



(With Plate FF.) 



(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society on 19th Nov,, 1901.) 



Family NYMFHALIDJ]. 



Subfamily DANAINiE. 



1. EuPL(EA (Crastia) kinbergi, Wallengren. Plate F.F., fig. 1$. 



E. kinbergi, Wallengren, Wien, Eat, Monatsch., vol. iv, p, 35, n, 8 (1860) ; 

 idem, id., Kongl. Svensk. Fregat. Eugenies Resa, Zool. p. 352, n. 4 (1861) 

 Insecta ; Crastia kinbergi, Butler, Joarn. Linn. Soc. Lond,, Zoology, vol, xiv, 

 p. 297, n. 6 (1878); Tronga kinbergi, Moore, Proc. Zool, Soc. Lond,, 1883, 

 p. 269, n. 12 ; Euplcea lorquinii, Felder, Reisi No vara, Lep., vol. ii, p, 340, 

 n. 472 (1865) ; ^Mpt'cea/eZcZen, Batler, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond,, 1866, p. 275, 

 n. 20 ; idem, id., Journ. Linn. Soc, Lond., Zoology, vol, xiv, p, 300, n. 18 

 (1878) ; Euplcea {Crastia) frauenfeldi, Walker {nee. Felder), Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond., 1895, p. 4 47, n. 11 ; Crastia frauenfeldii, Moore {nee Felder), Lep. 

 Ind„ vol., i, p. 87, pi, xxvii, figs, 1, la, male (1890). 



Habitat : Souther a China (Hongkong Kowloon, Macao). 



Through the kindness of Professor Chr. Aurivillius of Stockholm 

 I have received the very beautiful coloured drawing of the type 

 specimen of E. kinbergi, "Wallengren, here reproduced. It was 

 originally described from " China, December " an extremely vague 

 locality, China being so vast a country. Professor Aurivillius writes 

 to me, however, that the unique specimen, a female, which Wallengren 

 described " was taken during the cruise of H. M, S. ^ Eugenie, ' and 

 must, therefore, be from the neighbourhood of Hongkong, the only 

 place in China, which, as far as I know, was visited by the ' Eugenie ' 

 frigate." Wallengren failed to give the sex of his type specimen 

 which, however, is a female. Professor Aurivillius further writes : 

 " E. kinbergi is probably the female of a common and well-known 

 species," a very just remark, as E. kinbergi is the commonest 

 Euplcea in Hongkong, flying all the year round. It is extremely 

 variable, some are strongly glossed with blue on the upperside of the 

 forewing, others, like the specimen Dr. F. Moore has figured in 

 Lep. Ind., lack this gloss almost entirely ; the maculation also is very 

 inconstant, as it is in so large a number of species in the genus, 

 but it would be tedious to recapitulate these numerous variations. 



