FAJPLCEIN.E. lOf) 



EUPKEA PHCEBUS (Plate 38, fig. 1, la, (J ? ). 

 Eujylcea PJicehus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1866, p. 270. Moore, P. Z. S. Lond. 1883, p. 289. 

 Macroplcea Phoebus, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 292 (1878). 

 Huploea Gastelnaui, Felder, Eeise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 315, ? (1867). Distant, Ehop. Malayana, 



p. 24, pi. 2, fig. 6, ? (1882). 

 Euplcea (Macroplcea) Castelnaui, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 72 (1882). 



Imago. —Male, Upperside. Foreiuing golden olivaceous-brown, darkest and of 

 a purplish -Yiolefc tint posteriorly ; with a small violet-speckled whitish spot within 

 lower end of the cell, a discal row of eight narrow spots curving from and including 

 the spot on the costa above end of the cell, followed by a submarginal row of nine 

 larger spots, and a marginal row of small narrow spots, those of the discal and sub- 

 marginal rows increasing in size from between the upper median veinlet and the 

 subcostal vein. Hindiving darker coloured, purplish-violet ; anal border sullied, as if 

 oiled; costal border broadly cinereous- white ; with a large ochreous iipijer-discoidal 

 patch; a curved medial-discal series of four purplish- white spots, and an upper sub- 

 marginal and marginal row of prominent violet-white spots, the upper spot of the 

 submarginal row coalescing with the pale costal border. Cilia very slightly white 

 spotted. Underside slightly paler. Foreiving with the lower discal area darker 

 purplish violet-brown ; the posterior border from above the submedian to the extreme 

 margin cinereous-white, its upper middle area being ochreous ; the violet-white cell 

 spot and three exterior rows as on upperside, all being smaller except the cell spot 

 and those between the upper and lower median veinlets. Hindiving with a discal 

 series of small violet-white narrow spots, an upper submarginal row, and a complete 

 marginal row of very minute white spots. Female. Upperside paler. Foreiving 

 with all the violet- white spots larger, more diffused, and less prominently defined ; 

 in some specimens the apical area is powdered with violet-white scales and the 

 anterior spots of the two inner rows lost in this ground colour. Hindiving also with 

 three series of violet- white spots, both the submarginal and marginal row being com- 

 plete to the anal angle, and with generally five in the discal row. Underside also paler. 

 Foreiving with the spots clearly defined, but smaller, except the cell spot and three lower 

 discal, which are larger; posterior border broadly brownish-cinereous. Hindiving 

 also with the spots smaller, the discal series being composed of seven or eight, the 

 two of which between the median and submedian vein being very narrow. Body 

 dark purplish-brown ; thorax in front and beneath, head, and palpi black, spotted 

 with white ; a dorsal white streak on thorax ; legs black, fore femora beneath white 

 streaked. 



Expanse, 4f to 5|- inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Burma (Tenasserim); Nicobars. 



Distribution within Indian Area. — It has been " taken by Capt. C. H. E. 

 Adamson at Nyounting near Moulmein, in September " (Butt. Ind. i. 72). Dr. J. 

 Anderson (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 31) obtained several specimens " on Sullivan and 



