HI LOP A LOCK HA MA LA YA NA . 



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Kuphnt tnULautu*, Bntl., Trans. Linn. Hoc, eer. 2, Zool., vol, j,, p. 685 T n. 9 (1877 f. 



Tri-pnic/trui* wittottutK, Butl., Jonrn. i,iim. Soc. Zooh, vol. xiv.. p. *207. 3 i'1K7H); Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc M 

 1878, p. 828. 



Male. Anterior wings above dark violet-blue, with bright blue reflections towards apex, and with the 

 following pale spots : — a small one between first and second subcostal nervules (this is sometimes absent) ; 

 one in cell before lower disco-cellular nervule. two beneath cell sitiuite <m each side of second median nervule, 

 three beyond cell divided by discoidal nervules, a subrnar^inal series of about seven irregularly shaped 

 spots, and a marginal series of very small spots which become obsolete towards apex. Posterior wings dark 

 brown, with the costal and apical third pale brown and suh>*r ami lose, and with a small pale patch in cell. 

 Underside of win^s pale brown; anterior wings spotted generally us above, but with the apical marginal 

 spots more distinct and continuous; posterior wings with five small white diseal spots, one in and near end 

 of cell, and four surrounding apical portion of cell, situated between the nervules ; a marginal series of 

 small spots of the same colour, and a subninrginal series which only extends about half- way from apex (in 

 one specimen from Province Wellesley this series is continuous) to anal angle. Head and upper part of 

 thorns black ; head and anterior portion of thorax spotted with white ; abdomen dark fuscous, spotted and 

 marked with pale bluish heneath. Head beneath, sternum and legs black ; palpi, sternum and extreme 

 base of wings spotted with white. 



Female, Anterior wings pale brown, with a paler longitudinal streak in cell, a similar one between 

 third median nervule and suhmedian nervine, a huge ill-denned but bright blue patch on apical 

 third of wing, and spotted with white as in male. Posterior ivings pah' brown, with a long white streak 

 on each side of cell, and an intervening and shorter one of the same colour at its apex; three narrow 

 white streaks following cell, divided by the lower subcostal and discoidal nervules ; a siibnuirginal series of 

 narrow elongate spots, which at basal half of wing are continued upward* and united in pairs near median 

 nerrure; two narrow longitudinal streaks on abdominal margin, the outer one of which is broadly bifurcate 

 posteriorly, and a marginal series of smaller white spots. Underside of wings pale brown, marked and 

 spotted with white as above; on the anterior wings, however, the two pale longitudinal streaks above are 

 distinct and white beneath. 



Exp- wings, 4 "JO to % millim. ; 2 1HJ inillim. 



Hais. —Continental India; Khasia Hills: Vpaul : SilheL — JJurnia ; Moulmein. — tapper Teuasserim 

 (coll. Moore),— Malay Peninsula; Penang; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Mahicca (Brit. Mus.).— Siatn 

 (coll. Godm, k Salv,), — Sumatra (Brit. Mas.). 



This widely-spread, abundant, and protected species is mimicked by several other 

 buttcrilies belonging to different and non-pro tec ted families. In particular it is mimicked by 

 Papilio paradoxa and P, (enigma, and Mr. Wallace* states that be olten captured those Rpecies 

 under the impression that they were simply the more common E. va'tlmiius* 



& Euplcea muiciber, (Tab. 1IL, hg;l J, 2 2 .) 



Initio Mulrifwr, Cramer, Pap. Exot., ii., t. 127, C, U 11708). 



EupUm wutamuK ipartn Bntl., Proe. Zool. Sue, 1H0G, p. iSOl/Tft ; Horsf. & Moore, OlL. Lep. In*. Mus. K. I. C, 



1, p. 1S3 T ii. 26a (1857). 

 Trqisu-ln-»',}i mnlritjer, ButL, Jonrn. Linn, Soc Zool., vol. xiv., |>. 2 , JI>. 2 (1H7S k 



Male. Closely allied i t h the male of E. suiihuuus, hut smaller, with the apical portion of the anterior 

 whips less prominent, the subniarginul spots above smaller, and the marginal spots absent; the reflections 

 towards apex of the same wing are more violet than bright blue as in the other species. Beneath 



* Coutrihut. to Kat. Select., p. 87, 

 M.\ntii ttl, 1882. a 



