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form taken by myself at the foot of the Naga Hills in Assam. The neuration 

 of the fore wing in respect of veins 10, 11 and 12 is peculiar as the following 

 sketch will show : — 



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The hindwing is distinctly rectangular, being bluntly angled at the apex 

 of vein 4. The fuscous border on both wings is broader and almost entirely 

 without the usual hyaline spots, the subterminal row on the forewing being 

 very small and markedly lunular. So different is the facies of the insect 

 that at first sight, one is inclined to consider it quite a distinct species. 

 Euplcea core. Cramer. 



A female of this species from Khandala in the Western Ghats has the 

 apical white spots of the subterminal series on the forewing greatly 

 enlarged and very prominent. It is practically the variety vermiculata de- 

 scribed by Butler, but so far only recorded from the submontane tracts of 

 Northern India. 



Euplcea diocletiana. Fabricius. 

 Euplcea ramsayi. Moore. 



As far as my experience goes, only one species is to be found in North-East 

 India and it is impossible to separate the Sikkim insect from that found in 

 various parts of Assam. It is remarkable how very uncommon the females 

 are everywhere. Males are fairly plentiful wherever the species occurs ; but 

 of the dozens of insects I have captured or had brought to me by native 

 collectors, only one has been a female. The same remark applies, in a 

 somewhat lesser degree, to the female of E. alcathoe, Godart, a species found 

 fairly commonly in some parts of Assam. Several writers have already 

 remarked on the comparative scarcity of females of many of the species of 

 Euplcea • but the disparity in the numbers of the sexes of these two forms 

 is extraordinarily great. 

 Euplcea mulciber. Cramer=E. midamus, Linnaeus, var. nov. duarseri. 

 This is not a species which varies very much, but a male taken by me in 

 the Duars is so distinct as to merit description. The insect is compara- 

 tively small ; and the forewing instead of being marked with the usual 

 numerous violescent spots, is all but immaculate, a tiny dot beyond the 

 cell and a few minute terminal spots being the only lacuna in the intensely 

 rich purple gloss of the wing. On the upperside of the hindwing, the patch 

 of light coloured scales near the base of the cell forming part of the sex 



