NYMPHALIN^. {Giomp eutbjxiina.) 125 



3rd ser. iii. p. 263). Mr. J. J. "Walker found it " moderately common in Hong Kong ; 

 worn specimens occurring in December and January, and a fresh brood appears 

 early in April. The male, as its compact and powei'ful build would indicate, is a 

 tremendously rapid flyer, but its boldness renders it a very easy prey to the 

 collector when it settles on a leaf within reach, with its wings fully expanded. The 

 female (Sancara) is much less common than the male, and frequents shady places, 

 while the male is fond of open sunny paths in the Happy Valley. Having taken a 

 male and a female in ' cop,' I have no doubt of the specific identity of Sancara with 

 Phemius. I once bred a male specimen from a large and very stout green chrysalis 

 richly spotted with gold, which I found attached to a twig under some Litchi 

 trees {Nephelmm litchi) much frequented by the perfect insects " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1895, 

 457). 



EUTHALIA A.PICALIS (Plate 239, figs. 1, la, h, c, S ? )• 



Adolias apiealis, VoIIenhoven, Tijd. voor Eatom. 1862, p. 186, pi. 10, fig. 1, c?- 



Euihalia jmrta, Distant, Ebop. Malay, pi. 37, fig. 7, cJ (nee Moore). 



Euthalia Alpheda, Elvves, P. Z. S. 1891, p. 28C (nee Godt.). 



Uuthalia Binghamii, de Niceville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 265, pi. N. fig. 8 ( ? only) 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark rich purplish-brown; basal marks obscure. 

 Forewing with a transverse discal broad obscure blackish diffused sinuous fascia, 

 and a narrow denticulated submarginal fascia; the two fasciae widest apart anteri- 

 orly, but apparently, obscurely, partly coalesceut at their angles on the medians and 

 submedian veinlets, and between the anterior ends is a short subcostal similar 

 blackish patch. Hindiving with a similar discal obscure broad blackish fascia, and 

 a submarginal row of more or less dentated points. Underside paler ochreous- 

 brown ; the two transverse blackish fasciae on both wings narrower, more or less 

 obscurely-defined, the intervening short subcostal patch on the forewing also 

 obscurely-defined, and the apex of the wing tipt with a lilacine-grey dash ; basal 

 marks distinct. Body and palpi above, dark brown, beneath and legs light brownish- 

 ochreous ; antennee above dark brown, reddish beneath. 



Female. Upperside pale olivescent ochreous-brown. Both wings with trans- 

 verse obscure darker inwardly-diffused brown narrower fascige, the submarginal 

 fascia on the hindwing formed of small points ; basal marks dark brown-lined and 

 obscure. Forewing also with an outwardly -oblique upper discal series of five more 

 or less rounded sullied- white spots, the third and fifth being the smallest, bordering 

 the inner-discal fascia, between which latter and the submarginal denticulate fascia 

 the darker brown subcostal patch is visible. Underside paler ochreous-brown ; the 

 transverse darker brown fascia more or less obscurely-defined, the submarginal 



