264 LEPIDOPTERA IXDICA. 



the costa, a streak at end of the cell, and the apical border broadly decreasing to the 

 posterior angle, purpurescent-black ; the outer border traversed by a submarginal 

 row of pale olivescent-yellow decreasing spots. Hindwing with a submarginal 

 narrow band composed of bluish-white lunular spots, each surrounded by black and 

 inwardly-traversed by a slender bluish-white line; the extreme marginal edge, 

 including the two slender tails and the ends of the veins, black, diffused inwardly 

 with bluish-grey. Bodii dark purpurescent-brown ; palpi brown above, white 

 beneath ; vertex and collar white-spotted ; forelegs brown, fore tarsus white ; middle 

 and hind femora brown above, white beneath, tibiae and tarsi white ; antennae black ; 

 eyes reddish. Underside. Both wings pearly-white ; the costa of forewing to near 

 the tip, a narrow recurved subbasal band, an excurved submarginal band, and an 

 extreme marginal band olivescent brownish-ochreous, brightest on the hindwing ; 

 the subbasal band anteriorly-edged with a slender black broken line, the sub- 

 marginal band outwardly edged on the forewing by a broken black lunular line, and 

 on the hindwing traversed by a row of narrow black-edged lunules, followed by an 

 outer row of small black spots. 

 Expanse, o^ to 3.f inches. 



Habitat. — Western and Eastern Himalayas ; Assam. 



Distribution. — In Butt. Ind. ii. 273 Mr. de Niceville records "two specimens 

 taken in Kulu by Mr. A. Graham Young." The late General G. Ramsay took it in 

 Nepal. According to Mr. de Niceville this species is " apparently single-brooded, 

 and in Sikkira occurs at low elevations only in A|)ril and May. I have only seen 

 one female of this species, taken by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon in Bhotan on 2nd May, 

 1892 " (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 147). It also occurs in Assam, Cachar, Sylhet, and 

 Upper Tenasserim. Mr. Tucker, of the Rangoon Police, took it at Tavoy iu 

 December, and Capt. Bingham in Thoungyeen Valley in February, It is also found 

 in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



MTJEWAREDA EUDAMIPPUS (Plate 189, figs. 2, 2a cJ). 

 Charaxes Eudamijiints, Doubleday, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1843, p. 218, pi. 8. Butler, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, 1865, p. 635. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 273 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside. Both wings pale olivescent-yellow. 

 Forewing with the costa including more or less the upper-half of the cell, and a broad 

 bar at its end, the apex widely and the outer margin broadly, deep purpurescent- 

 black ; also a short continuous black streak below the base of the upper median 

 veinlct enclosing a quadrate pale yellow spot beyond the cell; following which are 

 two superposed pale yellow subijuadrate spots, a transverse submarginal series of 

 spots, the three upper of which are obconical and the four lower decreasingly 



