16 L. de "Niceville — Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region. [No. 1, 



posteriorly in the first median interspace ; the uppermost spot on the costa 

 linear, the second sj)ot the largest of all, the rest decreasingly smaller ; 

 a prominent highly zig-zag submarginal black line. Underside, hoth 

 wings paler than on the upperside, the markings very similar, those in 

 the discoidal cell as in the male. 



The male of this species, as in the rest of the group, except 

 E. recta, de Niceville, is barely distinct from its allies, it is, however, 

 nearest to E. eion, de Niceville, from Java, described above. The 

 female is nearest to E. hellata, Druce, from Boi-neo, of which latter 

 I possess a specimen for comparison, from which it differs in the broad 

 pale violet-powdered discal area, especially marked in the hindwing. 

 Mr. Hewitson's figure of the female of E. hellata, in ' Exotic Butter- 

 flies,' vol. V, Adolias pi. iv, fig. ll (1875), where it appears as 

 E. cenespolis, does not quite agree with my specimen, his figure shewing 

 a very large powdery-violet area in the forewing extending within the 

 discal band, this area being veiy faint in my example, and confined to 

 the region beyond the discal band. My female of E. eitrus differs, 

 however, markedly from Hewitson's figure of E. cenespolis, and my 

 example also from Borneo, in having a broad discal powdery- violet area 

 to the hindwing on the upperside. 



Described from two males and a female example in Dr. Martin's, 

 and t\vo males in my own collection, all from N.-E. Sumatra. 



The four last butterflies described above belong to a small but well- 

 marked group of the large genus Eidhalia, and appear to come into the 

 subgenus BopMa, Moore, of which E. evelina, Stoll, is the type. All 

 the species of Dophla, as I understand the subgenus, ai'e remarkable in 

 having on the underside of both wings a black ring-spot in the dis- 

 coidal cell, and a pair of black lines on either side of the disco-cellular 

 nervules centred with crimson. The ring-spot is absent however in two 

 species, E. eson, de Niceville, and E. gnpfa, de Niceville, in the hind- 

 wing only. In the E. evelina group there are sometimes other crimson 

 markings in the hindwing anterior to the discoidal cell. In all the 

 species of Doplda the discoidal cell is closed in both wings by a very 

 slender almost aborted veinlet, and the subcostal nervules of the fore- 

 wing never anastomose. The outline of the wings is distinctive, the 

 outer margin being highly emai'ginate in the forewing, giving that 

 wing a more or less falcate appearance. The cilia are very short, and 

 the butterflies give one the idea of having been neatly trimmed round the 

 edges with a pair of scissors. To facilitate reference to the subgroup to 

 which the four species above described belong, I give a key to the 

 known species. The males of several of them are so closely allied that 



