EUPLCEIN.E. 135 



NARMADA MONTANA (Plate 51, fig. 2, 2a, c? ? ). 



Euplcea monlana, Felder, Eeise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 330 (18G7), ^ $ . 



Narmada montana, Moore, Lepidoptera of Ceylon, i. p. 13, pi. 6, fig. 1,|^(18S0); Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lend. 1883, p. 318. 

 EnpJaea (Stictoplcea) montana, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 91 (1882). 

 Euj^lcea Lankana, Moore, Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 44, cJ. 

 Stidoploea LanJcana, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. XIV. p. 302 (187S). 



Im.\go. — Male. Uppei'side dark velvety olive-brown, paler externally. Fore- 

 ■wlug with a submarginal and a marginal row of very small indistinct ochreous-white 

 spots, which are obsolescent anteriorly. Tivo elongated silhij sexual marks between 

 the lower median and submedian vein, Hindwing with, a submarginal and a marginal 

 row of brownish-white spots, the former row oval from the anal angle and duplex 

 anteriorly, the latter row smaller and round ; anterior border broadly glossy-cinereous. 

 Underside paler; marginal white spots as above, those on the forewing more 

 prominent. Foreiving with a small violet-white costal spot above end of the cell, one 

 at lower end of the cell, and a contiguous discal series beyond ; sexual marks pale 

 brown and longer than on upperside ; posterior margin cinereous. Hindwing with 

 a small violet- white cell spot, and seven discal spots ; some white spots at base of 

 the wing. Bodij dark brown ; head, palpi, thorax above and beneath black, spotted 

 with white; legs black, fore femora white beneath; abdomen beneath with grey 

 bands. Female. Upperside as in the male, except the sexual marks, and in the 

 posterior margin of the forewing being straight. Underside also as in the male ; 

 two elongated whitish streaks above the submedian. 



Expanse, 3 to 3J inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon . 



This species is similar in colour and pattern to the Ceylonese Crastia Asela and 

 to Pademma Sinhala, but may be distinguished from them in the male possessing two 

 sexual marks on the forewing, and in the female also having two elongated streaks 

 on the underside above the submedian vein. 



DiSTKiBUTiON. — It has been captured at Galle, Rambodde, and Kandy, and by 

 Mr. F. M. Mackwood in the Navalpittia country. 



Allied Indo-Malatan species of Naemada. — The only other known species of 

 this genus is A^. consimilis (Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 329, 1867), a female of 

 which is in the collection of Messrs. Grodman and Salvin. Habitat. Java and 

 Sumatra. 



The following allied genera and species also occur within the Indo-Malayan 

 area, namely : — Nacamsa simillima (Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 310; Semper, Reisen 

 Archipel. Philippen. Lep. p. 32, pi. 4, fig. 1, 2, 3, c? ? (1886). Habitat. Luzon, 

 Philippines.— iV: Meldolw (Moore, P. Z. S. 1SS3, p. 310 ; Semper, Reisen Archipel. 



