JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Vol. LXVI. Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE. 

 No. III.— 1897. 



On New or Little- Known Butterflies from the Inch- and Aitstro-Malaijan 

 Regions. — By Lionel de Nice>ille, F.E.S., C.M.Z.S., &c. 



(With Plates I, H, III and IV.) 



[Received May 20th ;— Read July 7th, 1897.] 



Family NYMPHALID^. 



Subfamily Danain^e. 



1. Euplcea (Vadebra) elwesiana, n. sp., Plate I, Fig. 4, d 1 . 



Habitat: Bali; Lombok ; Sambawa (Doherty). 



Expanse: d, 30 to 32 ; 9 , 2*9 to 3-0 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings deep pitchy-brown colour. 

 Forewing with the outer margin broadly pale brown, its inner margin 

 even, broadest at the apex, slightly narrowing to the anal angle. 

 Hindwing with the outer margin broader and paler than in the fore- 

 wing, dirty-white in the middle ; the costa broadly pale fuscous. 

 Underside, both wings pale brown. Forewing dark pitchy-brown in the 

 middle ; a rather large reniform pale violet spot at the lower outer 

 end of the discoidal cell ; beyond which are three pale violet spots, 

 the anterior one in the lower discoidal interspace linear, the one 

 posterior to this oval, the posteriormost one the largest and oval ; 

 three or four submarginal white dots. Hindwing with a broad marginal 

 white area not quite reaching the outer margin or the apex of the 

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