1883.] MR. F. MOOHE ON LIMNAINA AND ETJPLfEINA. 289 



extremely 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. 



Note. — Hiibner (Verz, p. 16), Uoubleday (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. xiy. p. 291) 

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

 P. corns of Fabricius, both Mr. Scudder and Mr. Butler citing core 

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

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

 British-Museum Collection, p. 1, 1869) noted that the P. corm 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 pfue- 

 nureta, subsequently overlooked this important fact in his revision 

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

 coj-e of Cramer is cited as typically representing the genus Euploea. 

 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 {corus 

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

 resulting in the determination that the Fabrician species corus is 

 identical with the female of Macrojplcea elisa, a totally different insect 

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

 core of Cramer. 



1. EUPLCEA PH(EBTJS. 



Eujiloea i^hoehus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 270. 

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



Euploea castelnaui, Felder,Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 315, $ (186/) ; 

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



Euploea (MacrojJloea) castelnaui, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, 

 ofludia, p. 72(1882). 



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

 Penang, Kar Nicobar, Sumatra, Java. 



2. EUPLCBA CORUS. 



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



Euploea corus, Fabr. Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 280 (1807). 



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



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



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

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



Euplcea {Macroploea) elisa, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 

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



Hab, Ceylon. 



