EUPL(EA. 33 



from typical E. core in having the white spots in the subterminal 

 and terminal series on the fore wing smaller and more or less 

 obsolescent. 



Eoop. c? 2 78-100 mm. (3-4"). 



Larva of typical E. core. — Above bluish lilac, with a brownish- 

 yellow lateral stripe, and each segment with three brownish trans- 

 verse lines, four pairs of purplish tentacula, and the spiracles 

 margined with brownish ; beneath dark brown. Eeeorded food- 

 plants : the common oleander, Cryptolepis pauciflora, Ficus indica, 

 and Ficus glomeraia. 



Pupa. " Smooth, rounded, and fulvous, beautifully marked with 

 silvery or golden spots and streaks " (de Niceville). 



Larva of the race asela, as figured and described by Moore, differs 

 in being of a pale colour and in wanting the brownish-yellow lateral 

 stripes. Food-plant, the oleander. 



32. Euploea esperi, Felder, Verh. zool-bot. Ges. Wien, xii, 1862, p. 482, 



5 ; M.Sf de N. Butt. 2nd. i, 1882, p. 83 ; Moore (Crastia), Lep. Ind. 

 i, 1890-92, p. 88, pi. 27, figs. 2, 2 a, 2 b, rf $ . 



<5 2 • Shape of the wings as in E. godarti, Lucas. Upperside 

 very dark brown, almost black, scarcely at all paler towards the 

 terminal margins ; fore and hind wings with subterminal and 

 terminal series of white spots ; on the fore wing the spots in the 

 subterminal series much larger than the spots in the terminal 

 series and bent inwards opposite apex, a spot in the apex of the 

 cell often obsolescent and a discal series of four or five spots, of 

 which one or two may be very small or obsolescent; on the hind 

 wing the spots in the subterminal and terminal series subequal. 

 Underside chocolate-brown, the white spots as on the upperside 

 but more distinct, and in the hind wing with the addition of 

 a spot in the apex of the cell and five or six discal small spots 

 beyond. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen very dark brown, 

 and, the antennae excepted, spotted with white beneath. 



Exp. d 2 88-94 mm. (3-45-3-7"). 



Hob. The Nicobars. 



33. Euplcea godarti, Lucas, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1853, p. 319, 2 5 M - $ 



de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1882, p. 84 ; Moore (Crastia), Lep. Ind. i, 

 1890-92, p. 85, pi. 25, figs. 1 a-1 &,$%. 

 Euploea siamensis, Felder, Novara Beise, Lep. ii, 1867, p. 341, pi. 41, 

 fig. 6 c?. 



6 . Fore wing subtriangular, tornus more rounded than in 

 E. core. 2 • Fore ™g as in n g- 9 C (p. 23). — <5 2 • Hind wing 

 broadly ovate. Upperside dark brown, broadly paler along the 

 terminal margins, especially on the fore wing. Fore wing with 

 more or less incomplete and obsolescent series of subterminal and 

 terminal small white spots, and a powdering of violaceous- white 

 scales at apex, varying very considerably in extent from a mere 

 trace of violaceous between the veins to a large and very con- 



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