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lower medians, and two oi* three small lower-marginal spots ; posterior border 

 broadly cinerescent-brown, witli a broad ochreous patch above inner end of sub- 

 median, composed of elongated round-tipt regularly and flatly disposed layers of 

 ribbed scales. Hindicing with a submarginal and marginal row of white spots as 

 on upperside, a very small white spot within end of the cell, and a minute discal 

 series outside the cell. Body dark brown ; thorax in front and beneath, head, palpi, 

 and legs black, spotted with white ; abdomen beneath with white segmental bands 

 and lateral spots. Female unknown. 



Expanse, ^ 4 to 4^ inches. 



Habitat. — ? Lower Burma, Siam. 



DiSTEiBDTioN. — The type specimen in the British Museum collection is recorded 

 from Siam. Mr. E. L. Layard (P. Z. S. 1874, 103) obtained it at " Chentaboon and 

 Nahconchaisee " on the coast of the Gulf of Siam. Messrs. Blwes and De Niceville 

 (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1887, 416) record a specimen from Tavoy, which they doubt- 

 fully refer to this species. 



MEUAMA MODESTA (Plate 17, fig. 2, 2 a, b, ^ ?). 



Euplcea modesta, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1866, p. 273, $ . Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 103. 



Cradia modeda, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 298 (1878). 



Euplosa (Crastia) modesta et cupreipennis, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 77 (1882). 



Crastia cupreipennis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 823, $ . 



Menama Tavmjana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 265, pi. 30, fig. 6, $ . 



Euplaea {Menama) Tavoyana, Elwes and De NiceviUe, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1887, p. 416. 



Imago. — ^Male, upperside dark purplish-brown, some specimens of a more 

 rufescent tint, others again somewhat olivescent-brown. Forewing darkest and 

 glossed more or less wdth steel-blue from the base to near the outer margin, the blue 

 gloss appearing in certain lights on one side only (the blue extending variously to 

 within one-third or one-sixth of the outer margin), the other wing then having a 

 blackish glossless tint ; a white dot sometimes present on the costa above end of the 

 cell, one within end of the cell, one or two on the disc between the upper and lower 

 median veinlets, one or two also before the apex, two or three lower submarginal, 

 and one or two lower marginal pairs. Hindwing slightly blue-glossed towards the 

 base ; with a submarginal row of prominent small white oval anteriorly-decreasing 

 spots, and a marginal row of smaller spots ; costal border broadly glossy cinereous, 

 with an upper discoidal greyish-brown patch which is clothed with very densely- 

 packed laxly-raised narrow round-tipt scales. Underside olivescent-brown. 

 Foreunng with the small outer spots as above, when present, more prominent and 

 bluish-white, the costal spot, the one at end of the cell and two or three somewhat 

 larger discal spots always being present ; a grey-brown streak between the median 

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