EUPLCEINJE. ' lL'9 



Expanse, c? 3J to 4J, ? 4^ inclies. 



Habitat. — Eastern Himalayas, Upper Assam, Cacliar, Kbasia Hills, Burma. 



Our illustration on plate 48, fig. 1, I'epresents a male from Darjiling ; fig. la 

 is from the Burmese male type of Iraivada, fig. lb of a female from Bassein, and 

 the variety of the male, figured on plate 48, fig. Ic, is from Rangoon (taken in 

 October, and now in the collection of Col. C. Swinhoe). On the upperside of the 

 f Growings this latter specimen has the usual costal, cell, and discal spots incipiently 

 indicated by a few blue scales only, no submarginal or marginal spots are visible, 

 and the sexual mark is narrower and shorter than in other Burmese specimens of 

 T. splendens under examination. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — According to Mr. L. De Niceville (Butt. Ind. 61) " it is found, but 

 not very commonly, in Assam, extending through the Eastern Himalayas as far as 

 the valley of the Sardah, which separates Kumaon from Nepal. To the westward of 

 this range it is much rarer than to the eastward. Mr. Wood Mason took both sexes 

 in Cachar from April to June." Mr. Otto MUller obtained it in Sikkim in June. 

 Mr. L. De Niceville ( J. A. S. Beng. 1881, 55) took " a single male in Sikkim in 

 October." In Burma it has been taken at Bassein in October. It occurs also in 

 Rangoon and at Tounghoo. Major C. H. E. Adamson (Notes on the Danain^ of 

 Burma, p. 6) says, " I caught two specimens of this insect in March, 1883, on the 

 edge of the Htaroony Choung, in Arrakan. In the same year I caught one male 

 and one female soon afterwards near Akyab. During April, in the Arrakan Hill 

 tracts, I found it flying abundantly in certain places. I also caught some 

 specimens at Booseedoung, on the Mayoo river, in April, one male at Akyab on the 

 15th May, and one on 26th June. The brilliant blue gloss is very apparent when 

 on the wing, and so are the bright yellow caudal appendages of the male. As found 

 in Arrakan this is a very constant species, both in colour and in the number and 

 extent of spots. I have only taken one female." 



ISAMIA MARGARITA (Plate 49, fig. 1, la, b, $ , Ic, d, ? ). 

 Euplcea Margarita, Bat\ev,Froc.Zoo\.Soc. Loud. 1866, p. 279. Distant, Rliopal. Malayana, p. 31, 



pi. 4, fig. 3, (J (1882). 

 Salpinx margarita, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soe. Zool. xiv. p. 294 (1878). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, 



p. 823. 

 Euploea (Salpinx) margarita, Marshall andDe Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 62 (1882). 

 Euplcea {Salpinx) Adamsoni, Marshall, Journ. Asiatic Society, Bengal (1880), p. 245, $ . 

 Ijiago. — Male. Upperside dark rufescent-brown, in some more of an olivescent 

 tint. Forewing darkest and brilliantly glossed with blue from the base to or beyond 

 two-thirds the length, but never extending to the outer margin ; with a small pale 

 blue costal spot above end of the cell, a small round spot within lower end of the cell, 

 two lower discal spots between the median veinlets, the lower larger and oval, and 

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