22 NYMPHALID^. 



cell, a much shorter, narrower streak at base of interspace 5, 

 three or four subterminal spots and a series of minute obscure 

 terminal dots. Underside browner, the white markings and spots 

 more distinct, but shaded more or less with fuliginous brown, 

 the disc beyond cell very dark brown ; termen subapically with a 

 powdering of white scales. Antennae, head and thorax black, 

 the latter two spotted with white beneath ; abdomen dark brown 

 above, whitish below. 



Exp. d 2 90-100 mm. (3-54-3-94"). 



Rob. Oevlon. 



Genus EUPL(EA. 



Euploea, Fabr. Illig. Mag. vi, 1807, p. 280. 



Crastia, Trepsichrois & Salpinx, Riibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 1816. 



pp. 16 & 17. 

 Calliploea, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 1. 

 Stictoplcea, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv, 1878, p. 301. 

 Isamia, Narmada, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1880, pp. 10 & 13. 

 Menama, Tronga, Penoa, Mahintha, Karadira, Danisepa & Pademma, 



Moore, P. Z. S. L883, pp. 264, 266, 274, 280, 281, 296 & 305. 



Type, E. corus, from Ceylon. 



Range. Indo- and Austro-Malayan Eegions. Found also in 

 Mauritius and the Seychelles. 



S 2 • Fore wing variable in shape, more or less triangular, 

 comparatively broad and short, or elongate and narrow, or, in the 

 3 of typical Euploea, and in some others, owing to the great 

 convexity of the dorsum, almost subquadrate. Costa widely 

 arched ; termen oblique, sometimes slightly convex or concave ; 

 dorsum in S always convex, in $ straight or sinuous. Hind wing 

 ovate, broad, sometimes subtriangular. Discoidal cell of both 

 fore and hind wing broad and long, over half length of wing ; in 

 the hind wing sometimes over two-thirds the length of wing ; 

 discocellulars of fore wing sharply angulated and with a spur 

 inwards, or slightly concave ; rest of the neuration not variable ; 

 veins 11 and 12 of fore wing never anastomosed: dorsum of fore 

 wing on the underside, and costa of hind wing on the upperside, 

 nacreous. Antennae over half length of fore wing ; club very 

 gradual; palpi short, somewhat thick, third joint conical; fore 

 legs : tibiae and femora subequal ; tarsi much shorter in S , cylin- 

 drical, biarticulate and tapering ; in 5 clavate, quadriarticulate ; 

 intermediate and posterior legs normal, their claws with paro- 

 nychia and pulvilli. Secondary sex-marks in the 6 present or 

 absent ; when present consisting of peculiarly modified scales 

 which take the appearance of a brand when on the fore wing, and 

 of a patch different in colour from the surrounding scales on the 

 hind wing. 



Taking the secondary sex-marks in the males as a guide, 

 Fabricius's original genus Euploea has been split up into a very 



