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ends, clothed with adpressed compact i-cales, third joint very slender, conspicuousl/ 

 longer and thicker in the female than in the male. Antennae rather long, more than 

 half as long as the costa of the forewing, club evenly formed, no secondary sexual 

 characters ; the larvse feed on different fruits. 

 Type, Dipsas epijarbas, Moore. 



DEUDORIX EPIJARBAS. 

 Plate 711, figs. 3, (J , 3a, ? , 3b, ,J , 3c, larva and pupa. 



Dipsas epijarbas (recte epiarbas), Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 32 (1857). 



Deudorix epijarbas, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 20, pi. 7, figs. 16, 18, ^,17, 9 (1863). Moore, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 589 ; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 103, pi. 39, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, ? (1881). Wood- 

 Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 368. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, 

 p. 464, pi. 41, fig. 5, $ (1886). Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 370. Staudinger, Ex. Scbmett. 

 p. 278, pi. 96, (J (1888). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 359. de Niceville, Butt. 

 of India, iii. p. 449, pi. 29, fig. 238, $ (1890). de Rbe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1902, p. 469. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 642. Swiuhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 305. 

 David.son, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 390, pi. 5, fig. 9, 9a, larva and 

 pupa. Watson, id. 1897, p. 637. Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 388. Leslie and 

 Evans, id. 1903, p. 475. Aitken and Comber, id. 1903, vol. xv. p. 49. 



Deudorix epiarbas, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 126. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside scarlet-red. Forewing with broad black costal and 

 outer marginal borders, the costal band has its inner margin somewhat curved, being 

 limited by the median vein, consequently it is broadest at the apex, its inner edge on 

 the outer margin is uneven, and at the hinder angle the black band is continued for a 

 .short distance along the hinder margin ; the rest of the hinder margin is narrowly 

 suffused with black, and so is the sub-median vein. Hindwing with the costa, base 

 and abdominal area suffused with lilackish, the abdominal fold brown, outer marginal 

 line finely black, anal lobe black with a small red mark in it ; tail black, tipped with 

 white, the veins often more or less finely black. Antennae black, ringed with white, 

 club with a red tip and with a white streak on the underside below it. Underside 

 greyish-brown, markings indicated by their white edges. Forewing with a thick bar, 

 with a pale white line splitting it_. at the end of the cell ; a discal almost straight rather 

 broad band narrowing gradually hindwards, a sub-marginal series of thick lunular 

 marks, edged outwardly with white, its lower end close to the lower end of the discal 

 band. Hindwing with a thick bar with a pale white line running through it, at the 

 end of the cell ; a discal series of seven conjoined spots, the upper six squarish, the 

 seventh angled, the series irregular, the second spot a little outwards, the fifth a little 

 inwards, touching the lower end of the spot of the discoidal band, decreasing in size 

 hindwards, the angular .spot running in on to the abdominal margin one-third above 



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