138 LEPIDOPTERA ISDICA. 



Felder's type specimen is recorded as from Cocliiii-China, aud Mr. Distant 

 (Ehop. Malay. 36) describes it from specimens captured at Malacca. 



STICTOPL(EA CEOWLEYI (Plate 52, fig. 2, $ ). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing brilliantly blue-glossed and with 

 submarginal and marginal pale blue spots as in S. Harrisi, except that the former 

 series are a little larger. Hindering with three very small upper submarginal white 

 spots, as in S. hinotata. Underside. Forewing with a small violet-white costal, cell, 

 upper discal, and two lower discal spots, and very minute submarginal and marginal 

 spots. Hindicing with a very small violet-white cell spot, five discal spots, a sub- 

 marginal and a marginal row of very small spots. 



Expanse, i 3f inches.^ 



Habitat. — Tenasserim. 



This is an intermediate form between S. Harrisi and the Sumatran<S'. tj/rianthina, 

 the latter differing on the upperside of the forewing ia being deep violet-brown 

 without the blue gloss, in the submarginal spots increasing in size towards the apex, 

 and in the total absence of marginal spots. The type specimen is in the collection 

 of Mr. PhUip Crowley. 



STICTOPLCEA HOPEI (Plate 53, fig. 1, la, ^ § ). 



Euplcea Hopei, Felder, Eeise Xovara, Lep. ii. p. 328 (1867), cJ. 



Stictoploea Hopei, Batler, Journ. Linn. Soc. ZooL xiv. p. 302 (1878). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 



1883, p. 319. 

 Male. Comparatively smaller and with narrower forewings than in typical 

 specimens of S. binotata. Forewing with the spots similar but somewhat smaller. 

 Hindicing with a complete row of prominent white submarginal spots, the marginal 

 spots nearly obsolete, except three very minute dots in the middle. Female. 

 Upperside. Forewing marked as in the male, except in the absence of the sexual 

 marks and the posterior margin being straight Hind wing with a submarginal and 

 marginal row of white spots. 

 Expanse, ^ 3^, ? 4 inches. 

 Habitat. — Silhet, Khasia Hills, Naga Hills. 



STICTOPL(EA BINOTATA (Plate 53, fig. 2, 2a, «? ? ). 

 Stictoploea hinotata, Butler, Joum. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 302 (1878). Moore, Pioc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 



1883, p. 319, pi. 30, fig. i, (J. 

 Euplcea (Stictoploea) Hopei, Marshall and de Xiceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 92, pi. 9, fig. 18, ^ $ 



(1882). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing dark velvety blue-black, brilliantly 

 trlossed with steel-blue ; a small pale violet-blue costal spot, one within lower end of 

 the cell, a discal series of five spots which are more or less dentated, the three upper 



