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294, 1878). Male. Comparatively smaller than D. Rhadamanthus ; forewing with 

 much narrower white costal bar; hind wing with three very short white streaks below 

 the cell. Female uniformly brown ; with very white streaks below the cell of the 

 hindwing. Habitat. Borneo. — D. Shreiberi (Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1884, 403. n 

 D. Maasseni, Weymer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1885, 2G0. pi. 1, fig. 3, S, =: E. Niasica, 

 Snellen). A small species, characterized by the absence of the white streaks below 

 the cell of the hindwing. Habitat. Borneo ; Nias. 



MiMiCKs OF Danisepa. — One of the polymorphic forms (Isa) of the female of 

 Euripus Halitherses is a striking mimick of the female D. Bhadaraanthus. The 

 Papilio Caunus, var. Danisepa has also a similar resemblance to the same species. 



Genus SALPINX. 



Salpinx, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 17 (1816). Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. siv. p. 292 (1878). 



Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 300. 

 Eitploea (Sect. B,part), Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 26 (1882). 

 Euplosa (Salpinx, Sect. G,part), Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 59 (1882). 



Imago. — Male. "Wings short. Forewing \erj broad, quadrate, apex acuminate, 

 exterior margin slightly oblique and convex, posterior margin acuminate at the angle 

 and very convex in the middle ; cell broad, short ; with a short broad blue streak 

 between the lower median and submedian vein, composed of the broad rounded but 

 slightly serrate-tipt scales, this streak not reticulated in general appearance ; no 

 discoidal spur within the cell. Hindwing short, broad, anterior margin convexly- 

 angular in the middle, exterior margin convex ; cell long ; with a large pale ochreous 

 upper discoidal patch, clothed with numerous laxly packed overlapping narrow 

 round-tipt scales. Female with narrower and longer triangular-shaped wings. 



Ttjpe. — S. Nemertes. 



SALPINX NOVAR-ffi (Plate 40, fig. 1, la, h,S). 

 EupJwa Novaroe, Felder, Verli. Zool. Bot. Gesellsch, Wien. xii. p. 482 (1862) ; id. Reise Xovara, Lep. ii. 



p. 317, pi. 39, fig. 7 (1867) cJ. 

 Euplcea (Salpinx) Nooarce, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 68 (1882). 

 Salpinx Novarm, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 300. 



Imago. — Male. Comparatively larger than Burmese and Malayan specimens 

 of S. leucogonys. Upperside. Foreiving dark blue-black and brilliantly glossed 

 with blue; a pale blue spot on the costa above end of the cell, a submarginal row 

 of spots, and in some two or three very minute dots above the posterior angle ; 

 on the disc are two pale blue short upper streaks beyond the cell, a small spot 

 between the middle and lower median veinlets, and a short small spot below the blue 

 sexual streak between the lower median and submedian vein, each of these discal 

 spots, except the sexual mark, being absent in some specimens. Hindwing dark 



