NYMPH ALIN^. (.arou^ chabaxina.) 261 



EULEPIS SCHREIBERI (Plate 188, figs. 1, la, ^J ?). 



Nymphdlis ScJireiheri, Godart, Encyclop. Meth. ix., Suppl. p. 825 (1823). 

 Paphia Schreiberi, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy. pi. vi., figs. 3, 3a, § (1829) 

 Charaxes Schreiberi, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 633. Distant, Khop. Malayatia, p. 104, pi xiii. 

 fig. 2, S (1883). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. ii. p. 274.; 



Imaoo. — Male. Upperside. Both wings bluish-black, the basal third palest 

 and most tinged with blue. Forewing crossed by an erect medial bluish-white band, 

 which commences anteriorly in the interspace between the lower radial and upper 

 median veinlet, and sinuously widens out externally to the posterior margin ; between 

 the upper and lower radials is a moderate-sized somewhat quadrate white spot, 

 situated exteriorly beyond the medial band, and a smaller similar spot near the apex 

 between the upper radial and lower subcostal ; both of these spots being sometimes 

 obsolescent, or the subapical spot absent ; the medial band is more or less thickly 

 bordered posteriorly along both sides with smalt-blue scales. Rindwing with a 

 similar medial white band decreasing evenly from the costa to the lower median 

 veinlet, its posterior borders being also externally bordered with smalt-blue scales, 

 the outer portion broader and sinuously ; a submarginal row of small white lunules, 

 and a marginal series of indistinct ochreous lunules with intervening blue-speckled 

 shorter streaks, except on the two tails, where the blue streaks are longer ; abdominal 

 border broadly dusky greyish-brown. Underside dull nacreous pinkish-white, the 

 outer borders suffused with olive-brown ; the medial white band and apical spots 

 bluish-tinted on the forewing, but the band pure white on the hindwing. Forewing 

 with the medial band inwardly-bordered by a transverse dark olive-brown band with 

 sharply-defined black borders inwardly-edged with smalt-blue, this latter band 

 extending from the costal vein to beneath the lower median veinlet ; bordering the 

 black-edsred outside of the medial band is a curved series of slender brown-edc:ed 

 lunulate marks, the lowest mark more or less merged in a large blue-black patch ; 

 between the upper end of the medial white band and the outer lunules is a carmine 

 patch, and above this patch is a slender black streak ; two small black superposed 

 spots near base of the cell. Hindwing with the medial band similarly inwardly 

 bordered by a black-edged ohve-brown band, the inner line of which ends above the 

 anal angle, and outwardly bordered by a series of deep carmine lunules ; the 

 extreme outer margin of the wing bearing blue-edged ochreous-red lunules and blue 

 intervening streaks. 



Female. Upperside resembling the male, but with the medial white band 

 broader, and on the forewing there are two superposed quadrate white spots (the 

 upper one sometimes small) beyond the medial band, as well as the smaller sub- 

 apical spot. On the hindwing the submarginal slender white lunules are larger 

 and longer, and the marginal ochreous-red lunules very prominent. Underside 



