244 L. de Niceville — Subgenus Pademma of the genus Euplcea. [No. 3, 



others are not glossed at all ; some are rich chestnut-coloured towards 

 the abdominal margin, this colour also being found in some examples on 

 the bowed-out inner margin of the forewing. Underside. The varia- 

 tions of the spots on both wings described above as found on the upper- 

 side of the wings are also found on the underside, though to a less 

 extent. Female varies in precisely the same way as does the male. 

 The variations noted above are found throughout the range of the typi- 

 cal form, but they reach their maximum development in the Khasi 

 Hills, where I have been able to accurately match the following species 

 figured in Moore's " Lcpidoptera Indica " — E. klugii, E. augusta, E. il- 

 lustris, E. imperial-is, E. regalis, E. macclellancli, E. indigofera, E. slier- 

 willii, and E. uniformis. 



Geographical race E. erichsonii, Felder. 



Habitat : [MakUh, one female ; Cachar, one female], Arakan, Pegu, 

 Tcnasserim, Malay Peninsula, Siam, Cochin China. 



Expanse : 6", 3'2 to 4-0 ; 9 , 37 to 4-1 inches. 



Description: Male. Upperside. [Still continuing the same order 

 of the Pademma group, I first take up the description of the varieties 

 most nearly approaching the last geographical race.] The connecting 

 link between the E. klugii race and the one now under consideration is 

 /;. masani, Moore, which has the basal area of the forewing on the up- 

 perside glossed with bright violet-blue, which character typically con- 

 nects this race with K. Felder, from which, however, it may be 

 distinguished by the submarginal series of spots gradually increasing in 

 size from the anal angle till the one in the subcostal interspace is reached, 

 then again rapidly decreasing to the costa. But for this single character 

 it would, 1 think, be quite impossible to separate some forms of E. erich- 

 sonii from E. hollari. This geographical race is not as variable as the 

 last, though it is still very variable, Mr. Moore placing in it E. arasm 

 ( = E. eri :h8onii), E. bunneisteri, E. masoni, E. apicalis, and E. pembertoni. 

 The spots on both wings are almost as variable as in E. klugii, except 

 that the discal spots of the forewing never exceed two in number and 

 arc usually absent altogether, and I have seen no specimen with a spot in 

 the diseoidal cell. Female, markings throughout similar to those of the 

 male. 



The two female specimens, one each from Maldah and Cachar, men- 

 tioned under habitat above, quite upset the otherwise fairly well-defined 

 geographical distribution of this local race. These two specimens both 

 posses the submarginal scries of spots on the forewing of the typical 

 shape of E. riclisonii, so I am reluctantly obliged to include them under 

 that race. I have other aberrant male specimens from Arakan which 1 



