EUPL(EIN.E. i 5 



within lower end of tlie cell, and a discal series of three or four spots ; some white 

 dots at base of the wing. 



Female. Upperside much paler. Foreioing with a more or less distinct small 

 violet-white costal spot above end of the cell, one within end of the cell, two on the 

 disc, and traces of a third above the snbmedian ; a submarginal row of small slightly 

 obsolescent spots, the npper ones being minute or obsolete, and a similar lower mar- 

 ginal row of minute spots. Hindwing with the elongated submarginal spots, and 

 marginal row of spots as in the male. Underside much paler ; marked as on upper- 

 side ; the forewing also having a violet-white streak below the lower median veinlet 

 and another along the posterior margin ; hindwing also with a violet-white spot at 

 end of the cell, and a discal series of four or five very small spots. Body dark brown ; 

 thorax in front and beneath, head and palpi black, spotted with white ; legs black, fore 

 femora white beneath ; abdomen beneath with white segmental bands and lateral spots. 



Expanse, S , 3:^ to 3 J, ? , 3^ to 3f inches. 



Habitat.— Assam, Naga Hills, Cachar, Silhet, Manipur, Upper and Lower Burma. 



Distribution. — According to Mr. De Niceville (Butt. Ind. i. 87) it is " not 

 uncommon in Sikkim." Mr. Blwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 302), however, 

 mentions that he " has not seen any specimen from that locality." It is therefore 

 doubtful if this insect does occur in Sikkim. At Shillong, in Assam, it has been taken 

 by Mr. J. P. Cock, in May. Mr. J. L. Sherwill records it in his recent list of Naga Hill 

 butterflies, and Mr. Wood-Mason found it "common in Cachar in May and June" 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 345). Dr. G. Watt obtained it on the Manipur Hills in May. 

 It occurs at Akyab in Arakan. A specimen in Col. Swinhoe's collection, received 

 from Mr. ISToble, was obtained at Bhamo in Upper Burma, in November. It has also 

 been received fi^om the Karen Hills, and has been taken in Pegu, in May, and at 

 Moulmein, in June. Mr. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 828) found it at Ahsown at 2000 

 feet elevation in Upper Tenasserim, and Capt. Bingham obtained it in the Thoung- 

 yeen forests, and in the Mepley Valley in February. Dr. J. Anderson (J. Linn. Soc. 

 Zool. 1886, 31) obtained it in the Mergui Archipelago from "December to March." 



MiMicK. — P. Alcathoe, in its Lower Burma habitat, is mimicked by the Papi- 

 lionid butterfly, Menamo])sis Tavoyana. 



PENOA MENETRIESII (Plate 32, fig. 1, la, b, c, ,$ ? ). 



Euplcea Menetriesii, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatscli. iv. p. 398 (1860). Driice, Proo. Zool. Soc. 187-t, 



p. 103. Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 538 ; id. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zoul. xiv. p. 301 (1S78). 



Distant, Khopal. Malayana, p. 34, pi. 3, fig. 4, 5, ^ ? (1882). Marshall and Le ^'iceviUe, Butt. 



of India, i. p. 87 (1882). 

 Penoa Menetriem, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 275; zd. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886^ 



p. 3L 

 Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purplish violet-brown. Forewing with violet-blue 



