EULEPIS. 



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Fore wing : apical area from about middle of costa to apex of 

 vein 2, in Tenasserim specimens to apex of vein 1, jet-black, the 

 inner margin of the black area very sinuous and irregular, occa- 

 sionally the black in interspace 2 is subterminally separated into 

 two portions ; a conspicuous whitish-yellow preapical spot. Hind 

 wing : a subterminal series of bluish-black lunules with whitish 



Fig. 42. — Eule2>is delphis. 



centres ; the tails with median streaks of pale blue. Underside 

 silvery white. Fore wing : three black spots in cell, a crescentic 

 black mark at its apex with a short black line beyond it, and a 

 round black mark at base of interspace 2, the latter diffusely 

 bluish in centre, two slender black lunules below middle of costa, 

 followed by a postdiscal transverse series of bluish lunules, beyond 

 them a row of ochraceous spots. Hind wing : a subcostal bluish 

 diffuse spot surrounded by a slender black line ; a slender black 

 loop near apex of open cell with short slender transverse lines 

 below in interspaces 1 a, 1 and 2, followed by a transverse series 

 of blue lunules ; a series of red spots, the anterior two yellow : a 

 postdiscal sinuous yellowish band; a subterminal series of blue 

 lunules and a terminal series of large yellow spots, narrowly mar- 

 gined with pale bluish, this colour also suffuses the tails. Antenna? 

 black ; head and thorax anteriorly brown, thorax posteriorly 

 greyish ; abdomen whitish yellow ; beneath, the palpi, thorax and 

 abdomen white. 



Exp. 6 $ 96-112 mm. (3'8-4-4"). 



Hah. Assam; Cachar ; Arrakan ; Burma; Tenasserim, extend- 

 ing south to the Malayan Subregion. 



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