366 JOURNAL, BOMBA Y NA TUBAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. IX. 



ON NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN BUTTERFLIES 

 FROM THE INDO-MALAYAN REGION. 



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



(With Plates N, 0, P, and Q.) 



(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society on 



28th January, 1895.) 



(Continued from page 321.) 



Family PAPILIONID^. 



Subfamily Pavilioning. 



36. PAPILIO (Euplceopsis) DANISEPA, Butler, PI. Q, Fig. 48, $ 



P. danisepa, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xvi, p. 343, n. 109 

 (1885) ; Isamiopsis danisepa, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1893, p. 314, n. 405. 



Habitat : Near Assam ; Sylhet (Butler) ; Cherra Punji (Swinhoe) ; 

 Htarooay stream, Arracan Hills, March [Adamson) ; Sibsagar, Jorehat, 

 both in Assam ; Katha district, Upper Burma ; Thaungyin 

 Forests, Middle Tenasserim, Daunat Range, Burma (coll. de Niceville). 



Expanse : 9 , 5*2 inches. 



Description : Female. Uppeeside, forewing with the basal third 

 of the wing and the whole of the sutural area bronzy-brown, the 

 outer two-thirds of the wing fuscous, in certain lights glossed with 

 brilliant purple ; the outer half of the discoidal cell occupied by a 

 creamy-white patch, its inner edge irregular ; a very narrow similar 

 streak at the apex of, but immediately beyond, the cell ; a very small 

 irrorated white spot at the base of the subcostal interspace ; a larger 

 triangular one with its apex pointed outwards at the base of the upper 

 discoidal interspace ; a large creamy- white streak outwardly dusted with 

 purple scales at the base of the lower discoidal interspace ; a 

 similar but narrower and longer streak dusted throughout with 

 purple scales in the upper median interspace ; a very faint purple 

 irrorated streak in the lower median interspace ; a submarginal series 

 of nine rounded white spots outwardly edged with purple, the three 

 anterior ones out of line with the rest, bent inwardly, one spot in each 

 interspace save the submedian which has two, these latter are 

 somewhat linear in shape, and the posterior of them reaches the anal 

 angle of the wing. Hindwing with the costa as far as the costal 



