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NYMPHALIDyE. 



dorsal margin straight, terminal and costal margins together very 

 strongly arched. Upper side, $ 2 > dark velvety brown, the hind 

 wing somewhat paler than the fore wing, the latter entirely, the 

 former in the middle only, glossed with brilliant blue. Eore 

 wing : a spot in cell, a discal series of violaceous spots in inter- 

 spaces 2-6, 9 and 10, the latter sometimes centred with white, 

 a curved subterminal row of six white spots and a terminal 

 series, sometimes obsolescent, of six or seven white dots. Hind 

 wing with a subterminal and terminal series of white spots, nearly 

 complete but often faint and obsolescent, not reaching the tornus. 

 Underside rich umber-brown, darker on the disc in the fore and 

 on the basal portions of the hind wing ; the spots as on upperside, 

 but the discal series in fore wing reduced to a violaceous spot 

 in interspace 2 and a small costal spot, the terminal dots more 

 numei'ous ; in the hind wing there are in addition five discal spots 

 beyond the cell. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark velvety 

 brown, a few white spots on the head and thorax. 



Exp. tf $ 96-112 mm. (3*8-4-4"). 



Hah. Eastern borders of Kumaun ; Nepal ; Sikhim ; through 

 Assam, Cachar, and Burma to North Tenasserim. 



44. Euplcea margarita, Butler, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 279 ; M. 8> de N. 

 Butt. Ind. i, 1882, p. 62 ; Moore (Isamia), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, 

 p. 129, pi. 45, figs. 1, 1 a-\ d, <$ $ . 



d $ . Closely resembles E. splendens, Butler, but on the upper- 

 side the brilliant blue gloss never occupies more than the basal 

 two-thirds of the fore wing. On the hind wing it is as in 

 E. splendens ; the spots are much reduced in number on the fore 

 wing, sometimes entirely absent or obsolescent, when present- 

 there is generally a spot at apex of cell and one in interspaces 2, 

 3 and 10 respectively, with a white dot or so about the tornus. 

 On the hind wing there is a complete subterminal and terminal 

 series of white spots. Underside similar to the upperside, but 

 the spots more numerous. Male sex-marks as in E. splendens. 



Exp. <5 2 86-104 mm. (3'38-4'l"). 



Hob. North Tenasserim southwards to the Malay Peninsula. 



45. Euplcea roepstorfi, Moore (Tiruna), P. Z. S. 1883, p. 316, pi. 32, 

 fig. 8 $ ; id. (Tiruna) Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 133, pi. 50, fig. 3tf . 



S . Fore wing as in fig. 9 A (p. 23), but the apex somewhat 

 more produced. Hind wing broadly ovate. Closely resembles 

 E. andamanensis in ground-colour and pattern of markings on 

 the wings, but the former is of a more bronze-brown and slightly 

 darker. Upperside : fore wing with the following white spots — a 

 minute costal spot, a subterminal sinuous row of 6 large and a 

 terminal row of 8 much smaller spots. Hind wing : a subterminal 

 and a terminal row of spots, the former elongate, the latter 

 smaller and somewhat quadrate. Underside : ground-colour and 



