134 LEPIDOPTEEA IKBICA. 



NAEMADA COREOIDES (Plate 51, fig. 1, la,^? ? ). 

 Euplcea Coredides, Moore, Annals of Natural History, 1877, p. 44. Butler^ Journ. Linii. Soc. Zool. 



XIV., p. 301 (1878). 

 Narmada Coreoides, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 13 (1880) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 318, pi. 



29, fig. 10, c?. 

 Euplcea (Stidoploea) Coreoides, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 90 (1882). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark velvety olive-brown, palest externally. Fore- 

 iving with a prominent submarginal and a marginal row of small whitish spots. 

 Two elongated silky sexual marks between the lower median and submedian vein ; the 

 upper streak being clothed with widely-separated short scales of irregular shape with 

 broad bluntly-bid entated or rounded tips, and the lower streak clothed with widely- 

 separated short tridentate-tipt scales. Hindwing with broader rows of whitish oval 

 and rounded submarginal spots and smaller rounded marginal spots, anterior margin 

 broadly glossy-cinereous, clothed with densely-packed broad abruptly taper-pointed 

 striated scales. Underside paler ; marginal spots as above. Both wings with a small 

 violet-blue spot at end of the cell and contiguous discal series beyond ; sexual marks 

 on forewing pale brown, both clothed with short regularly-disposed round-tipt 

 ribbed scales, interspersed with a few narrow whitish scales and a very few extremely 

 slender clavate white scales ; the posterior margin glossy cinereous and clothed with 

 round-tipt widely-separated ordinary-shaped scales. Bodij dark brown ; head, palpi, 

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

 beneath white ; abdomen beneath with grey segmental bands. Female paler. Both 

 wings with marginal rows of spots as in the male, the submarginal series above and 

 the discal violet-blue spots on the forewing beneath being larger; two whitish 

 elongated streaks above the submedian ; posterior border cinereous. 

 Expanse, c? 3;^, ? 3^ inches. 

 Habitat. — South India. 



This species has much the general appearance of Crastia Gore, found also 

 commonly in the same localities, but can easily be distinguished from it by the 

 presence of tu'o sexual marks in the male, the female showing on the underside of 

 the forewing two pale corresponding streaks, instead of one, as in G. Gore. 



Distribution. — This species appears to be confined to South India. Mr. L. De 

 Niceville (Butt, of India, 91) says it " is not common." Mr. W. C. Taylor, in his 

 List of Orissa Butterflies, enumerates it as being "rare atKhorda," but his identifica- 

 tion of the species is probably erroneous, and requires confirmation. It occurs at 

 Bangalore in Mysore, North Canara, Malabar, and the Wynaad. Mr. (>. F. Hamp- 

 son (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 848) "found it with G. Gore, not uncommonly in the spring 

 and autumn, at all elevations on the Nilgiris." It also has been taken at Trevan- 

 drum in Travancore in May, by Mr. H. S. Fergusson. 



