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L. de Niceville— Species of the genius Eurytela. 



[June, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 331, n. 2; E. stephensii, Boisdav^l, Faun. Ent. 

 Madagasc, p. 55, n. 2, female (1833). 



Habitat: (Boisduval) ; Java (Wallace) -, ? Fort Stedman. 



Shan States (Manders) ; ? Karen Hills ; ? Singmo, Shan States (Elwes) ; 

 Katha, Meple (April), Burma; N.-E. Sumatra; Preanger, Java (coZ/s, 

 de Niceville and Watson). 



The male of this species is characterised on the upperside of both 

 •wings by its rich dark blue coloration, with a very broad submarginal 

 black band to the hind wing. The female, of which 1 possess a single 

 example only from Sumatra, has the paler markings of the upperside 

 of a somewhat dark shade of ochreous. I have not access to the 

 original description of this species, so cannot say if Dr. Boisduval 

 characterised it from Javan specimens or not ; I presume so, however, 

 as Dr. Wallace gives Java as the sole habitat of the species, and its 

 name would indicate that it is a Javan species, as Dr. Thomas Horsfield's 

 researches in the fauna of that island have a world-wide reputation. 



4. Eurytela glaucescens, n. sp. 



E. horsfieldii, de Niceville (pm% nee Boisduval), Butt, of India, vol. ii, p. 12, 

 11.302 (1886). 



Habitat : Papun (ISTovember and December), Methalauk near Papun 

 (November), Karen Hills, 500-1500 ft. ( December), Toungu (December), 

 Meple (October and December), all in Burma ; Central Java, 1,500 feet 

 (colls, de Niceville and Watson). 



The male of this species may be known from the same sex of 

 E. horsfieldii, Boisduval, by its very much duller coloration on the upper- 

 side, being of an almost plumbeous or glaucous tint instead of a rich 

 indigo-blue ; and it does not possess a broad submarginal black band to 

 the hind wing, and the submarginal black line on the fore wing also 

 is obsolete. Tlie female (of which I have access to three specimens) 

 is in two examples from Papun of a more luteous shade on the upper- 

 side than in my single Sumatran example of E. Iwrsfieldii, in another 

 Papun example the shade of colour of the upperside is very dark 

 and might be described as dull ferruginous, with the apical portion alone 

 of the broad discal band common to both wings luteous on the forewing. 



6. Eurytela andamanensis, n. sp. 



Eurytela horsfieldi, Moore (nee Boisduval), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p 585; 



E. Iiorsfieldii, Wood-Mason and de Niceville (vec Boisduval), Journ. A. S. B , vol. 



xlix, pt. 2, p. 228, n. 21 (1880) ; idem, id.. I.e., vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 245, n. 28 (1881) ; id., 



{:part), de Niceville, Butt, of Ind., vol. ii, p. 12, n. 302, pi. xviii, fig. 69, male (1886). 



Habitat : South Andaman Isles. 



The male of this species agrees with the form which I have con- 



