242 MTMPHAIiLDJS. 



Genus EURIPUS. 



Euripus, Weshvood, in Dblday., Westic. fy Hew. Gen. Di. Lep. 1850, 

 p. 293; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 15; Moore, Lep. Ind. in, 

 1896-99, p. 39. 



Type, E. halitherses, "Westw., from Sikhim. 



Range. Sikhhn eastward through Assam, Burma, and Tenas- 

 serim to China, and southward to the Malay Peninsula and 

 Sumatra. 



<$ . Pore wiug triangular, costa arched ; apex well marked, 

 subacute ; termen convex, anteriorly concave in the middle, 

 bluntly angulate at apex of vein 2 ; tornus obtuse, dorsum nearly 

 straight ; cell open, in length nearly one-third of wing ; upper 

 discocellular minute, middle concave, short, lower wanting ; veins 

 8, 9, 10 out of 7, latter two touching, 11 free, 10 touching but 

 not anastomosed to 11. Hind wing subquadrate, costa arched, 

 apex rounded : termen scalloped, truncately produced at tornus 

 and between veins 4 and 5, biemarginate between veins 2 and 4 ; 

 dorsum slightly convex ; cell open, narrow, vein 7 at base 

 equidistant from 6 and 8. Antennas long, stout ; club long and 

 gradual ; palpi erect, stout, parallel, third joint very short, slender ; 

 eyes naked ; front tarsus one-jointed ; claws of intermediate and 

 posterior tarsi with long slender paronychia and large pulvilli. 



Key to the forms of Euripus. 



a. Both sexes without red spots on hind wing . . E. halitherses, p. 242. 



b. Both sexes with one or more red spots on hind 



wing E. consimilis, p. 244. 



268. Euripus halitherses, Doubleday, in Dblday., Westw. fy Hew. 



Gen. Di. Lep. 1850, p. 293, pi. 41, fig. 2 tf ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 



1886, p. 18, pi. 20, fig. 90, <$ $ ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, 



p. 40, pi. 203, figs. 1, 1 ar-le, 6 2 , & pi. 204, figs. 1, 1 a-\ c, $ . 



Euripus ciunamomeus, Wood - Mason, 



J. A. S. B. 1881, p. 272, pi. 4, fig. 4 $ . 



Euripus alcathoeoides, de N. Bidt. Ind: 



ii, 1886, p. 20 2 • 



6 . Upperside deep blue-black. Eore 

 wing with the following creamy-white 

 markings : a streak from base in inter- 

 space 1, a shorter streak with a spot 

 below it in cell, a transverse spot at 

 apex of same, a very large spot at base 

 of interspace 2, a much smaller one in 

 interspace 3, three rectangular short 

 streaks above towards the costa, a post- 

 discal series of paired streaks in the 

 . F'g-^. interspaces curving inwards opposite 



Euripus halitherses, 6- b the ^^ and a f ine of obscure ^ 



along terminal margin near tornus. Hind wing with similar 

 streaks in cell and in all the interspaces from 1 a to 6, followed 



