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marginal row of very minute spots, and a larger inner-discal spot above tlie lower 

 median veinlet. Eindiuing with a submarginal row of prominent small white spots 

 decreasing to dots towards the anal angle, and a lower marginal row of dots ; some 

 white spots at base of the wing. Thorax, head and palpi black, spotted with white ; 

 legs black, fore femora beneath white streaked ; abdomen above dark brown, beneath 

 black, banded with white. 



Female. TJpperside paler ; the base and hindwing more olivescent-brown. 

 Foreiving blue-glossed and with somewhat larger blue spots, as in male. Eindiving 

 with the costal border cinereous-white, the two upper submarginal whitish spots 

 sometimes only present, the others, and the marginal dots of the underside some- 

 times visible from above. Underside of the same colour, and marked, as in male. 



Expanse, S 2|, ? 3 to 3^ inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Burma. 



DiSTEiBUTioN WITHIN INDIAN Area. — A male and female in the collection of 

 Messrs. Godman and Salvin (and formerly in the possession of Mr. H. Druce) was 

 received from Mr. Hume, and obtained at Bankasoon in the Lower Burma Hills. 



DiSTKiBUTioN OUTSIDE IndianAeea. — Occurs in the " Malay Peninsula at Province 

 Wellesley, Perak, and Malacca " (Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 26). Mr. Carl Bock 

 obtained it in Sumatra. 



Indo-Malayan allied species op Oalliplcea. — G. Mazares (Moore, Catal. Lep. 

 Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 128, 1857). Habitat. Java.— C. Aristotelis (Moore, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1883, p. 292). Habitat. N. Borneo.— C. Mariesis (Moore, id. p. 293). Habitat. 

 Kinkiang, N. China. — G.pollita (Erichson, Nova Acta Acad. N. C. 1834, p. 282, pi. 

 50. f. 6). Also described by Semper, Reisen Archipel. Philippen, Lep. p. 30 (1886). 

 Habitat. Philippines. — C. ononilis (Moore, id. p. 293). Also described and figured 

 in Semper's Reisen Archipel. Philippen, Lep. p. 29, pi. 6, f. 4, 5, c? ? . Habitat. 

 Mindanao, Philippines. — C. Hainana (Holland, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 112, 

 pi. 1, fig. 2. Habitat. Hainan. About twenty other species have been described 

 (see Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, pp. 293-6), which inhabit the Austro-Malayan 

 islands of Gilolo, Waigiou, Mysol, Timor, New Guinea, Dorey, Aru, N. Australia, 

 Loyalty, New Caledonia, and the Fiji Islands. 



Genus EUPLCEA. 



Evplcea, Fabricius, Illiger's Magazine, vi. p. 280 (1807). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 288. 

 Macroplcea, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 292 (1878). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 9 (1880). 

 Euplma {Sect. B, part). Distant, Ehopalocera Malayana, p. 2i (1882). 

 Euploea {Macroplcea), Marshall and De NiceviUe, Butt, of India, i. p. 71 (1882). 



Imago. — "Wings very large and broad. Male. Foreiving somewhat elongated, 

 quadrate ; apex rather acumiaate, exterior margin oblique, posterior angle rounded, 

 posterior margin very convex in the middle ; cell very large and broad ; discocellu- 

 lars concave, discoidal spur obsolete ; lower median veinlet and the submedian vein 



