204 LEPIDOPTERA INDIGA. 



Genus CUPHA. 



Cupha, Billberg, Enum. Ins. p. 79 (1820). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 6-1 (1881). Distant, Rhop. 



Malayana, p. 176 (1882). de Nictville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 21 (1886). 

 Messaras, Doubleday, Gen. Diurnal Lep. i. p. 163 (18-18). 



Imago. — Male. Wings short, broad. Foreiuing subtriangular ; costa much 

 arched from the base, apex very obtuse ; exterior margin very sHghtiy oblique and 

 waved in the middle; costal vein extending to half the margin; first and second 

 subcostal branches very short ; fi.rst subcostal emitted at end of the cell, second at 

 one-sixth beyond end of the cell, third branch at two-sixths from its end, fourth and 

 fifth at two-thirds beyond ; upper discocellular extremely short, almost obsolete, 

 middle discocellular starting from close to the subcostal and deeply concave below, 

 lower discocellular very slender and slightly concave, radials from angle and end of 

 the upper ; cell very short and broad ; two upper median branches emitted at end of 

 the cell, lower median at one-third before its end ; sub-median vein nearly straight. 

 Hindwing broadly oval ; exterior margin very convex, waved ; costal vein extending 

 to the apex ; precostal vein curved outward ; first subcostal branch emitted at one- 

 third before end of the cell ; cell open ; median branches wide apart ; subraedian and 

 internal vein straight. Bodi/ short, somewhat slender ; palpi ascending, finely pilose, 

 second joint long, extending half its length beyond the head, third joint short, 

 slender, pointed ; forelegs slender, of male finely hairy ; forelegs of female scaly, 

 tarsal joints spined ; antennae with a gradually formed club; eyes naked. 



Type. — C. Erymanthis. 



L.^RVA. — Cylindrical ; armed with longitudinal rows of blackish bi-anched-spines. 

 Colour brown or pale green. 



Pupa. — Brown or pale green ; with a double row of long slender red filaments. 



CUPHA ERYMANTHIS (Plate 362, fig. 1, la, b, c, c? ? ). 



Papilio Erymanthis, Drury, lUust. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 15, fig. 3, 4, ? (1770). Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. 



pi. 283, fig. F, G, c? (1779). Donovan, Ins. of China, pi. 35, fig. 1, ^ (1798). 

 Argynnis Erymanthis, AVestwood, 2ud Edit. Donov. Ins. China, p. 64, pi. 35, fig. 1, (^ (1842), 

 Messaras Erymanthis, Doubleday, Gen. D. Lop. i. p. 163 (1848). 

 Cupha Erymanthis, Billberg, Enum. Ins. p. 79 (1820). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 176, pi. 8, fig. 4, 



S (1882). de ^IctviUe, Butt, of India, ii. p. 22 (1886). 

 Papilio Lotis, Sulzer, Gesch. Ins. p. 144, pi. 16, fig. 6 (1776). 

 Messaras Nicohariea, Felder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Gesells. Wien. xii. p. 48G (1862). 

 Messaras disjuneta, Weymer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1885, p. 263. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside olivescent brownish-ochreous. Fore- 

 wing with a slightly-defined black very slender broken ringlet-mark across middle 

 of the cell, and two waved sinuous lines at its end ; a broad transverse discal pale 



