38 NYMPHALIDJS. 



B. Brand on fore wing in <5 long and narrow, 

 over 9 mm. in length. 



a. Fore wing suffused with brilliant iridescent 



blue from base to termen E. splendens, p. 48. 



b. Fore wing suffused with blue only on 



basal portion E. margarita, p. 44. 



c. Fore wing bronze-brown without any blue 



gloss E. roepstorfi, p. 44. 



39. Euplcea diocletiana (PL I, fig. 5), Fabr. (Papilio) Ent. Syst. iii, 

 1793, p. 40; M. $ de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1882, p. 71. 

 Papilio rhadamanthus, Fair. Ent. Syst. iii, 1793, p. 42 ; M. fy de N. 

 pt. (Euplcea), Butt. Ind. i, 1882, p. 69; Moore (Danisepa), Lep. Ind. 

 i, 1890-91, p. 112, pi. 39, figs. 2, 2 a, 2 b, J $ . 



Race ramsayi. 



Euplcea rhadamanthus, pt., M. fy de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1882, p. 69, 



pi. 7, fig. 11, 6 2. 

 Danisepa ramsayi, Moore, Lep. Ind. i, 1890-91, p. Ill, pi. 39, figs. 1, 



1 a, 6 $ . 



c? . Fore wing : dorsum and termen very convex ; costa arched. 

 2 . Pore wing : differs only in being narrower and the dorsum 

 sinuous. Hind wing in both sexes : costa and termen strongly 

 curved, forming together half of an ellipse of which the straight 

 dorsal margin is the chord. — 6 . Upperside black, the fore wing 

 with a brilliant blue gloss throughout, the base brown ; hind 

 wing : the upper portion silky hair-brown, the disc and terminal 

 margin shot with blue. Fore wing : a very large, irregular, white 

 spot filling the apex of the discoidal cell, three elongate spots 

 divided by the nervures above and one or two small white spots 

 below, the whole forming an irregular oblique bar ; a large sub- 

 terminal blue spot in interspace 2 and smaller similar spots in 

 interspaces 4-7 ; finally a line of 3 or 4 small terminal blue spots 

 near the tornus : all these blue spots occasionally white-centred. 

 Hind wing : broad white streaks in interspaces 1 a, 1 b, 1 and 2, 

 a spot (sometimes absent) at base of interspace 3, another (but 

 rarely) at base of interspace 4, one or two discal blue spots and 

 very incomplete subterminal and terminal series of similar spots. 

 Underside hair-brown, the markings as above but more complete 

 and larger ; on the hind wing there are in addition one or two 

 spots or streaks in the cell and on the disc beyond it. — $ . Upper- 

 side pale umber-brown, the apical half of the fore wing with or 

 without blue gloss ; markings similar to those of the S , but all of 

 them white and somewhat larger, especially the two spots at the 

 lower end of the oblique bar on fore wing ; on the hind wing there 

 are in addition three white streaks in the cell with two or three 

 spots beyond, the subterminal and terminal series of spots white 

 and generally complete. Underside similar, the markings broader. 

 Antenna? black ; head, thorax and abdomen in 6 bluish black, in 

 $ cinereous ; in both sexes the palpi and thorax beneath spotted 



