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marked as in the male. Body bluish-black above, ochreons beneath; collar and 

 vertex white spotted ; palpi black above ; palpi beneath and pectus white ; fore 

 femora and tibite black, fore tarsus white ; middle and hind femora black, with the 

 tibife and tarsi dull ochreous-white, the tarsi with black bands. Antennae black ; 

 eyes reddish-brown. 



Expanse, S 2f to 3}, ? 3^ to 4 inches. 



Habitat. — Assam ; Xaga Hills ; Arakan, Burma ; Malay Peninsula, etc. 



Distribution. — This is a very rare butterfly. Colonel Swinhoe has a male from 

 Cherra Punji. A male and female from Shillong, Assam, and a male from the 

 Naga Hills is in Mr. P. Crowley's collection ; Mr. L. de Niceville records it from 

 Jorehat, in Assam ; Major C. H. E. Adamson took two females in Arakan in 

 November. Mr. "W". Doherty obtained a tattered male in Toungoo (P. Z. S. 1891, 

 283). It also occurs in the Malay Peninsula (Distant Rhop. Malay, p. 104), Batavia 

 (Snellen), Java (Horsfield), Billiton (Godman and Salvin), Labuan (British Museum), 

 and Borneo (Distant). 



Of our illustrations of E. Schreiberi on Plate 188, fig. 1 is from the Naga Hill 

 male, and fig. la from a Shillong female. 



ETILEPIS WARDII (Plate 188, figs. 2, 2a, b, <? ; et larva and pupa). 



Imago. — JMale. TJpperside similar to B. Schreiberi. Forewing differing in the 

 medial white band extending up to the lower subcostal veinlet, the upper end having 

 two additional portions, placed in a linear series with the others, the band itself 

 being also comparatively narrower and of a more uniform width, and the subapical 

 spots being absent. Hindiving similar to Schreiberi. Underside ditfers in the 

 medial white band of the forewing being of uniform width and having the two 

 additional portions at the upper end, the carmine patch absent, and the lunular 

 marks disposed in a less curved series, otherwise similarly marked as in Schreiberi. 



Expanse, S 3f to 3| inches. 



Anoi.T Caterpillar. — Slug-shaped ; dark green and pale dotted above, pale 

 beneath, and with a yellowish saddle-like dorsal band on anterior part of seventh 

 segment ; head with four incurved, red, tuberculated processes ; anal segment with 

 two, short, conical pointed processes. 



CnRYSALis. — Short, thick, cylindrically-ovate ; green ; smooth ; dorsum much 

 arched; head truncated, pointed in front. 



Habitat. — S. India. 



Distuibution. — The late Mr. S. N. Ward reared a male from larva found at 

 Calicut, in August, 1853. Dr. Jerdon obtained a specimen at Anjirucady, near 

 TeUicherry. Mr. de Niceville (Butt. India, 275) records a single male taken in the 

 Wynaad by Mr. Rhodes Morgan ; and that Mr. Harold Ferguson obtained a broken 



