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dentated dark line in its middle. Underside, both icings pale ochreons, 

 all tlie markings similar to those on the upperside but much more prO' 

 minent. Hindwing with the usual markings in and around the discoidal 

 cell, otherwise as on the upperside. Body above and below concolorous 

 with the wings. Legs pale ochreous. 



E. sahii is perhaps nearest to E. merta, Moore, described from 

 China, a female of which I possess from Quang in the Malay Penin- 

 sula, but it differs in the discal series of five spots in the forewing 

 having their outer ends more or less excavated, while in E. merta the 

 exact reverse obtains, each spot being produced outwardly into a sharp 

 point. In E. sahii the sagittate markings beyond the discal series 

 of spots also in the forewing have their apices directed towards the 

 base of the wing, in E. merta towards the outer margin. On the 

 hindwing in E. sahii the submarginal dentated dark line is continuous, 

 in E. merta it is replaced by a series of well-separated small round 

 spots, and there are other minor differences between the two species. 



Described from a single example in Dr. L. Martin's collection. I 

 have named it after Saki, a highly intelligent Javan collector in 

 Dr. Martin's service. 



9. EuTHALiA (DopJila) ivA, Moore. 



Adoliai iva, Mooro, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mas. E. I. C, vol. i, 

 p. 195, n. 395 (1857) ; idem, id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new (second) series, vol. v, 

 p. 78, n. 36, pi. viii, fig. 2, male (1859); id., Bntler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 

 p. 602, n. 14; Euthalia iva, de Nieeville, Butt, of India, vol. ii, p. 197, n. 491 (1886). 



Habitat: Darjeeling (Jlfoore) ; Manipur. 



Expanse : 2 , 4*5 inches. 



Desceiption : Female. Differs from the male only in being some- 

 what larger, the forewing rather more elongated. 



I have recently been so fortunate as to acquire by purchase a pair of 

 specimens of this fine species. It was described as far back as 1857 by 

 Mr. Moore from Darjeeling. I am a little doubtful regarding this 

 locality, as it is strange that within recent years this large species 

 should not have been obtained in the Sikkim district, which is for but- 

 terflies perhaps the most completely explored of any in India, However, 

 it may have occurred there in the middle of the century, and since 

 become exterminated, as has its near ally, E. durga, Moore, owing to 

 the enormous destruction of the virgin forests that has taken place for 

 the cultivation of tea. E. iva comes into the group of E. patala, Kollar, 

 E. dnrga, Moore, and E. diida, Staudinger, in which the sexes are very 

 much alike, in that respect differing from E. wara, Moore, and E.sahadeva, 

 Moore, in which the sexes differ greatly, the females of these two 



