1881.] Diurnal Lepldoptera inhabiting tlie Nicobar Islands. 227 



7. Euplcea (Salpinx) novara. 



Euplcea novarce, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Gescllsch. Wicn, 18G2, vol. xii, p. 482, 

 <J ; id., Reise Novara, Lep., p. 317, pi. 39, fig. 7, <?. 

 Kar Nicobar (Felder). 



8. Euplcea esperi. 



Euplcea esperi, Felder, Verb., zool.-bot. Gescllscb. Wien, 1862, vol. xii, p. 482, 

 <j? , from Kar Nicobar. 



Euplcea frauenfeldit, Id., ibid., p. 479, <J, from Ceylon; Reise Novara, Lep., 

 p. 342, S ? , pi. 41, fig. 4, <J , from Ceylon ! 



Euplcea felderi, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. 275, $, from Sumatra. 



Euplcea lorquinii, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., p. 340, <? $ , from Soutbern 

 Cbina. 



Two males and two females from Pulo Kondul ; three males and a female 

 from Kamorta ; and six males and three females from Trinkut Islands. 



Of the males from Pulo Kondul, one differs from the specimen de- 

 scribed and figured by Felder in the ' Novara Keise' solely in presenting 

 no trace of a cellular spot in either wing, in having a minute whitish 

 dot intercalated between the first and second and another larger added 

 at the posterior end of the submarginal series of spots on the upperside, 

 and a short linear cellular mark in the right wing only (instead of a 

 geminated one in both wings) with a still shorter streak (obsolete in the 

 left) beyond it on the underside, of the anterior pair of wings ; and in 

 there being only a very indistinct cellular point present in the right wing, 

 and in the minute geminated spot (= the foremost of the submarginal 

 series) between the third median veinlet and the discoidal vein being 

 absent from both wings, of the posterior pair on the underside. The other 

 male differs from the preceding in having, on the upperside of both anterior 

 wings, distinct shadows of the rounded white cellular spots of the under- 

 side, the second dot in the submarginal series absent, the two discal spots 

 larger, and, on the underside, a discal oval violet- white spot just behind the 

 subcostal followed from before backwards by two linear marks beyond 

 the end of the cell, all three faintly marked on the upperside and larger in 

 the left than in the right wing; on the underside of the posterior wings it 

 presents a distinct rounded cellular spot smaller than those of the anterior 

 wings and a submarginal series of minute dots commencing in one wing 

 with the geminated one, in the other between the two discoidal veinlets and 

 both ending between the submedian and first median veinlet ; and on the 

 upperside, no trace of cellular spots, but the submarginal series much as 

 below. The two females differ from one another chiefly in the size of the 

 markings, and from Felder's description in having, on the upperside, three 

 discal white spots (one cellular) with a streak in front of the two extra- 

 cellular ones, eight submarginal ones with, in one specimen, two linear 

 dashes between the first of the series and the subscostal spot, and, on 



