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mottled and speckled witli brownish-ocbreous short strigre ; with transverse lines 

 similar to upperside ; the discal bands palest and less speckled with dark scales. 

 Bodi/ of male above blue-black, beneath and legs greyish; palpi above brown, grey 

 beneath ; antenna; black above, Avhite speckled beneath ; body of female brownish- 

 ochreous above, beneath and legs pale ochreous. 



Expanse, c^ 2 to 2i"o, ? 2 to 2^^) inches. 



Haiutat. — South Andamans. 



Indg-Malay Spkcies. — LariiKja HorsficJdii (Eurytela Horsfieldii, Boisduval, 

 Faun. Ent. Madagascar, p. 54, <S (1833). Wallace, Trans, Eat. Soc. Lond. 186ii, 

 2?. 331. de Niceville, Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 109. Si/ii. E. Stepheusi, 

 Boisd. I.e. p. 54, ? . Hahiiat. Java ; N.E. Sumatra. — Larlagn Fruhdorferil (Eur. 

 Fruhstorferii, de Niceville, Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 109; id. Jouru. Bombay 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 23, pi. S, fig. 14, c?. Habitat. Central Java. — Larimja 

 Niha (Eur. Niha, Fruhstorfer, Ent. Nachr. 1896, p. 39). Habitat. Xias Island. 



Sub-family ACR/EIN^. 



Lena III ides (pait), Hiibuer, Verz. bek. Schmetl. p. 26 (1816). 



AcrwJdi.i', Doublsday, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 137 (1848). Doherty, .Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 18S6, p. 109. 



Staudinger and Scliatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 101 (1887). 

 Aenetmi; Bates, Journ. Ent. ii. p. 17G (18Gi). Kiiby, Syn. Catal. D. Lep. p. 130 (1871) ; id. AUen'.s 



Nat. Hi.st. Butt. i. p. 32 (1894). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 05 (1881). de Niccville, Butt, of 



India, i. p. 317 (1883). Jordan, Nov. Zool. v. p. 387 (1898). 



Characters of the AcBJi:[N.E. 



I.MAGO. Wings never thickly covered with scales, either opaque or partially or 

 entirely diaphanous. Cells closed. Fureiving subtriangular, elongate, the ape.\: 

 more or less rounded, outer margin either nearly straight or rounded. Hindirimj 

 obovate ; the inner margin free from the abdomen, and not channelled to enclose it. 

 Body elongate, abdomen much arched, the last segment in the female often furnished 

 with an anal corneous appendage; palpi divergent, rising above the forehead, 

 sparsely hairy, basal joint short; forelegs short, slender, smoothly scaled or clothed 

 with slight spiny hairs ; fore tarsns of male sometimes, apparently, single jointed, or 

 four or five jointed, cylindrical or slightly fusiform, clothed with spiny hairs ; 

 fore tarsus of female four or five jointed, each with a terminal pair of spines; 

 antennge with an abruptly clavate club ; eyes prominent. 



Larva. — Cylindrical; segments armed with longitudinal rows of rigid brauched- 

 spines. 



Pdpa. — Suspended; slender; elongated. 



