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the underside, a small spot and, in the next cell but one, a linear streak 

 behind the second subcostal spot. 



The three males from Kamorta differ from the second of those de- 

 scribed above in having the second submarginal dot in the anterior wings 

 more often present than not, a double series of marginal spots in the posterior 

 wing, and all the spots larger and more prominent ; the female has no second 

 subcostal spot and the cellular spot in the anterior wings is rounded. 



Of the six males and three females from Trinkut, the former also agree 

 with the second of the two from Pulo Kondul in the anterior wings, differing 

 in the great development and prominence of the two marginal series of 

 spots in the posterior ones ; the females differ from those of Kondul Island 

 in no respect of any moment. 



All the specimens differ from the continental variety E. lonquinii in 

 the wings being merely glossed with dark purple-violet, and not " vivide 

 violaceo-cyaneo suffused"'' 



9. ElTPLffiA C AMORT A. 



E. eamorta, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 582, <?. 



Two males and two females from Nankowri Island ; two males and 

 one female from Katschall Island ; three males and one female from Kar 

 Nicobar ; one female from Kamorta Island ; and two females from the 

 Great Nicobar. 



The males from all the islands shew no variation whatever, all have 

 the basal dark portion of both wings glossed with very dark blue-violet. 

 The females, however, present considerable variation. Those from Nan- 

 kowri differ from their males only in the subcostal spot on the anterior 

 wing below showing through on the upperside. The one from Katschall is 

 exactly like its male, except in the absence of the usual sexual characters. 

 The Kar Nicobar specimen shows the subcostal spot and another just outside 

 the cell between the second and third median veinlets on the upperside, 

 and a spot between the two branches of the subcostal on the posterior 

 wing ; there are also two small indistinct specks near the apex of the anterior 

 wing, the posterior of which only is visible below. That from Kamorta 

 is altogether much paler, the borders to both wings being pale fawn-colour ; 

 it has the subcostal and cell-spots on the upperside of the anterior wing. The 

 Great Nicobar females are the most aberrant of all : the anterior wing has 

 on the upperside an increasing series of three subapical spots, a spot at 

 the end of the cell and another just outside it between the second and 

 third median veinlets, and the subcostal spot ; and the posterior, a 

 prominent spot between the two branches of the subcostal ; all these spots 

 (which are coincident with spots on the underside) are violet-white; 

 on the underside of the anterior wing the spot in the cell, the subcostal 

 one above it, the three subapical ones, an increasing series of spots outside 



