46 



SYMPHALID^;. 



slightly elongate white spots. Underside, S 2 > similar to the 

 upperside in each, but the markings broader, larger and more 



distinct ; in the <$ there 



besides a small white 

 apex of cell, two 



Fig. 15. — Ettplcea mulciber, £ . 



are 

 spot in 

 or three 

 discal and incomplete sub- 

 terminal and terminal series 

 of white dots. Antennse, 

 head, thorax, and abdomen 

 dark velvety brown, the ab- 

 domen glossed with greenish 

 blue above ; beneath, the head 

 and thorax spotted, the 

 abdomen transversely banded 

 with white. 



Exp. 6 2 88-104 mm. 

 (3-45-4-1"). 



Hah. The Himalayas from 

 Simla to Sikhim ; Nepal ; 

 Assam ; Cachar ; Upper and 

 Lower Burma; Tenasserim ; the Nicobars; extending to Siam, the 

 Malay Peninsula and Borneo. 



Larva. " Cylindrical, with four pairs of long fleshy subdorsal 

 filaments which have pink bases and black tips, three pairs being 

 on the anterior segments and the fourth pair on the 12th segment. 

 Body pinkish white with lateral yellowish blotches, the segments 

 each divided by a black line and anteriorly bordered by a narrow 

 transverse pink band and purple-brown stripes ; spiracles black ; 

 head with a dark red stripe in front and one on each side ; fore 

 legs black, middle and hind legs black ringed with pink." {Moore, 

 Larva of the Javan form, E. claudia.) 



Pupa. " Short, thick across the middle ; thorax concave behind ; 

 abdominal segments dorsally convex, metallic golden-brown with 

 darker brown anterior stripe." (Moore.) 



Var. Jcalinga, Doherty, found in the hills of Ganjam, Vizaga- 

 patam and Jaipur, may be a local race of E. mulciber, Cramer, but 

 I have only been able to examine a single 2 in Mr. Elwes's col- 

 lection, now in the British Museum. The points of difference are 

 more evident in the 2 ■> which on the hind wing has only " a line 

 of obscure whitish submarginal dots." The cellular and discal 

 white streaks so prominent in the 2 of E. mulciber are almost 

 entirely lacking, though faint traces of these are visible on the disc 

 but not in the cell of the hind wing, the latter being immaculate. 



