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and segments slightly washed with pale pinkish, a slight pinkish 

 oblique lateral fascia from anal process ; a small, dark, lateral spot 

 on sixth segment." 



Pupa. " .Rather short ; head-piece bluntly cleft in front, vertex 

 pointed ; thorax dorsallv prominent and angular ; dorsum angular 

 at base ; abdominal segments slightly angled dorsally ; wing-cases 

 somewhat dilated laterally. Colour pale brownish ochreous, with 

 lateral thoracic golden spots." 



I have united under Westwood's name a very large number 

 of forms separated by Moore and Butler on what, so far as I 

 have been able to find out, are variable characters. I have not 

 done this without prolonged and careful study and comparison of 

 large numbers of specimens of the so-called distinct forms from 

 Dr. Moore's own collection. All I can say is, that I have been 

 unable to find one single character that could serve invariably, 

 or indeed in the majority of cases, to distinguish the forms 

 restricted under the various names. The Andaman and the 

 Nicobar forms, however, seem to be somewhat constant, and I have, 

 but still with much hesitation, retained them as slightly differ- 

 entiated insular races of iV. enrynome, Westwood. Regarding the 

 rest, typically the Eastern form eurynome is larger than typical 

 varmona or astola, and has the subbasal band on the underside of 

 the hind wing heavily black-bordered, but this bordering is not so 

 wide as in the above-mentioned insular races, nor is its width 

 constant. Typical varmona has this same bordering slightly more 

 pronounced than in astola, while the ground-colour on the under- 

 side of the latter is, in the majority of specimens, a shade darker 

 than in varmona. It is, however, worthy of note that in the 

 specimens now in the collection of the British Museum, marked as 

 types of N. varmona and N. astola respectively, the shade of this 

 ground-colour is identical. 



Race andamana, Moore, g 2 • — Almost identical in colour and 

 markings with some of the wet-season Burmese specimens of the 

 typical form, but in every specimen (and I have examined some two 

 hundred) the spots of the postdiscal series on the upperside of the 

 hind wing are very narrow, andj the subbasal band on the underside 

 of the same wing very heavihj bordered with blade. 

 * Exp. S 2 52-59 mm. (2-08-2-34"). 



Hab. The Andaman s. 



Race nicobarica, Moore, S 2 • — Differs from the typical form 

 in the much darker colouring of the ground-colour on the under- 

 side, and in the subbasal band of the hind wing being slightly 

 fusiform, narrower at dorsal and costal margins than in the middle. 

 This is more clearly apparent on the underside. Like the Andaman 

 race, the above band is very heavily bordered with black on the 

 underside of the wing. 



Exp. 6 2 56-64 mm. (2-23-2-52"). 



Hab. The Nicobars. 



