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NYMPHALID^. 



269. Euripus consimilis, Westioood (Diadema), in Dblday., Westw. fy 

 Hew. Gen. Di. Lep. 1850, p. 281 $ ; de N. Butt. hid. ii, 1886, 

 p. 17; Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1 896-99, p. 44, pi. 205, figs. 1, 

 1 a-1 d, c? 2 • 



Euripus hallirothius, Westioood, in Dblday., Westio. fy Heio. Gen. 

 Di. Lep. 1850, p. 293 S- 



Euripus consimilis, var. meridionalis, Wood-Mason, J. A. S. B. 

 1881, p. 86, pi. 4, fig. 2. 



(5 . Uppevside : fore wing black with the following white streaks 

 and spots : a long streak from base, outwardly broadened and 

 diffuse in interspace 1, a short slender streak in cell with a minute 

 elongate spot below it, a broad, short, very oblique, in the middle 

 broadly interrupted, median band, an oblique short row of slender 

 paired streaks beyond in interspaces o, 4 and 5, followed by a 

 more complete postdiscal series of similar streaks from costa to 

 interspace 2, and a terminal row of small dots turning into obscure 

 streaks towards the apex. Hind wing white, traversed by the 

 black veins, with the termen anteriorly narrowly, posteriorly 

 broadly black, the broad portion traversed by a subterminal series 

 of four or five crimson spots, and beyond by a terminal row of 

 white spots. Underside similar ; the markings broader, larger, 

 and more clearly defined, the hind wing with a small patch and 

 two spots of crimson at base. Antennas black ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen above black ; the head and thorax beneath, the 

 abdomen beneath and on the sides marked with white. — $ . Upper- 

 side : fore wing similar, the white streaks much broader, single, 

 not paired. Hind wing also similar, but the black on the terminal 

 margin not at all or very slightly widened posteriorly, entirely 

 without the crimson spots ; there is instead a marked dilatation 

 of the black bordering the veins 2, 3 and 4. Underside similar 

 to the upperside. 



Exp. S 2 70-88 mm. (2-69-3-48"). 



Hab. Sikhim, and westward to Kumaun ; found also in Southern 

 India ; Assam ; Burma, and Tenasserim. 



Genus SEPHISA. 



Sephisa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 240 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, 

 p. 45 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1897-99, p. 25. 



Type, S. dichroa, Kollar, from Kashmir. 



Range. The Himalayas and the hill-ranges of Assam and Burma, 

 extending to China. 



S 2 • Fore wing : costa arched, apex well marked but obtuse ; 

 termen highly sinuous, convex below apex, concave in the middle, 

 then angulate at or below apex of vein 2 ; tornus obtuse, dorsum 

 slightly convex ; cell open ; upper discocellular minute, middle 

 short, bent inwards, lower absent ; veins 8, 9, 10 out of 7, 11 free, 

 9 touching 10, 10 touching 11 but no anastomosis. Hind wing : 



