EUPLCEINJE. 11 



Expanse 3J inclies. 



Taken at Galle and Kandy by Captain Wade. 



Genus EUPLCEA. 



Euploea (part), Fabricius, 111. Mag. vi. p. 280 (1807). 



Euplcea, Boisd., Doubleday, Butler, Felder. 



Crastia (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 16 (1816). 



Forewing elongated, triangular ; costa slightly arched, apex rounded, exterior 

 margin oblique, slightly waved and concave in the middle, posterior margin almost 

 straight in both sexes ; male with a sericeous streak between the lower median and 

 submedian veins ; costal vein extending to nearly two-thirds the length ; first 

 subcostal branch emitted before end of the cell, second from extreme end, third about 

 one-third beyond, fourth and fifth at one-third from apex; upper discocellular 

 shortest, inwardly oblique, angled outward close to the subcostal and emitting a 

 short spur from its lower end within the cell, lower discocellular outwardly oblique 

 and angled outward close to its upper end, the radials from their upper angles; 

 median branches from angles wide apart, submedian slightly recurved, looped at its 

 base : hindwing short, bluntly oval, costa slightly arched in middle ; costal vein short, 

 curved near the base, with a short basal forked spur ; first subcostal branch emitted 

 from angle before end of the cell ; discocellulars outwardly oblique, upper shortest, 

 concave, lower slightly convex, the radial from their middle ; median branches from 

 angles widely apart ; submedian straight, internal curved at its base. Body long, 

 slender; antennae slender; legs squamous, tibia and tarsi spinous beneath; palpi 

 short, pilose. 



EUPLffiA. ASELA (Plate 6, Fig. 2, 2a). 



Euploea Asela, Moore, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 45. 



Male and female. Upperside dark velvety olive-brown, broadly paler externally : 

 forewing with a submarginal and less distinct lower marginal row of small brownish- 

 white spots, the former series curving to the costa before the apex ; male with a 

 single short slender sericeous streak between the lower median and submedian 

 veins : hindwing with a submarginal row of brownish-white oval spots, and a 

 marginal row of smaller round spots. Underside paler, both rows of marginal spots 

 clearer ; both wings with a small spot at end of the cell, and a contiguous discal 

 curved series of spots. Body blackish, thorax, head, palpi, front legs, and abdomen 

 beneath white spotted, middle and hind legs beneath white streaked. 



Expanse 3J to 3-| inches. 



Larva cylindrical, purple-white, or dove-colour, with a pair of curled red fleshy 

 filaments on three of the anterior segments and a pair on the twelfth segment ; each 



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