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NYMPHALIDJE. 



up to the termen with a brilliant blue gloss; a spot in apex 

 of cell, a small costal spot, two short streaks beyond apex of 



Fig. 13. — Euplcea klugii. Variations in shape and markings of fore wing. 



cell, and in the 2 ^ wo discal spots : in the S subterminal and 

 terminal series of spots ; in the $ the latter series wanting : in 

 both sexes the subterminal spots produced 

 inwards. All the spots bluish white in 

 colour. Hind wing umber-brown, the 

 centre glossed with blue ; subterminal rows 

 of spots incomplete or obsolescent, the 

 former reduced to two or three spots 

 below the apex, the latter in the 3 mere 

 dots ; in the $ absent, only seen by trans- 

 parency from the underside. Underside 

 similar, paler brown, not glossed with blue; 

 centre of fore wing dark, spots more 

 clearly defined, subterminal and terminal 



IV. 14 Euplcea klugii. series more or less complete. Antenna? 



Variation in shape and black ; head, thorax and abdomen velvety 

 marking of fore wing. brown, head and thorax speckled with 



bluish white. 

 Exp. S 5 78-110 mm. (3-1-4-35"). 



Hab. Bengal, Maldah ; Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Assam; Cachar; Arra- 



kan ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; the Mcobars, to the Malay Peninsula. 



There can be no doubt as to the extreme variability of this form,. 



