AGALOPE. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
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the cell-spot is small and there are three separated white spots on the disc, of which the middle one is very 
small. This form is the transition to sangaica, which occurs in North China and South Japan. 
E. sanguiflua. Body not glossy, blue-black. Forewing from the first third striped with purple rust- 
colour on the veins, the stripes ending in white spots, white dots between the stripes, yellow dots in the 
black basal area. Hindwing distally marked with white. — sanguiflua Drury (= sanglitlua Fruhst.) (4d) is sanguiflua. 
found in North India and Burma; it is a common insect at an elevation of 3000—4500 ft. The vein-stripes 
are broad and the hindwing is distally strongly suffused with blue, also all the white dots on the under surface 
are blue-edged or suffused with blue. — Sumatra is inhabited by lugens Dohrn. The vein-stripes are thin; lugens. 
the hindwing is not blue distally and the white submarginal spots are enlarged to a band. This form is 
more dissimilar to the North Indian than is the form from Java, which is geographically further from North 
India. But this only confirms what we know of many forms from Sumatra and Borneo, namely that they 
contrast in their colouring with those from Java and India, which are more similar to one another, 
gedeana Fruhst, (= javana Dohrn), from Java, has proximally thinner vein-stripes and especially on the under gedeana. 
surface larger white submarginal spots; on the hindwing moreover the blue sheen is confined to a narrow 
marginal band except that the white dots have blue borders. Piepers remarks upon the tenacity of life of 
these insects; in the cyanide bottle they still made vigorous movements after an hour. According to 
Fruhstorfer gedeana occurs at elevations of 4 — 6000 ft., and is distinguished by its rapid flight when it 
comes out of the cloudy heights to sun itself for a few minutes. 
E. aliris. Similar to the preceding species; forewing without rust-coloured vein-stripes; the dots 
placed in the first third rust-coloured, the two costal spots merged together. The 7. abdominal segment of 
the cf with deep excision, the two lobes broad, rounded, not curved inwards and developed to a pair of tongues 
as in sanguiflua. — The North Indian form, aliris Doubl. (4d), which flies together with E. sanguiflua, but aliris. 
is not quite so common, has the apical spot of the hindwing blue and the anal spot brown-black. — analis analis. 
subsp. nov. has the anal angle of the hindwing dirty white, also the white spots are somewhat larger than in 
the North Indian form and the blue colour has disappeared except the borders of these spots. Tenasserim. 
E. namouna. An individually variable species, which appears to be purely Malayan; Sikkim has 
indeed been given as a locality for two of the forms, but no doubt incorrectly, at least no examples of 
this species have of late been found in Sikkim. Brown-black, with blue-white dots on head, thorax and 
breast and at the sides of the abdomen. Both wings with white dots on the distal half, on the hindwing 
usually a row in the middle of the wing blue. The veins before the outer margin often accompanied by 
white streaks, the upper streaks on the forewing sometimes extending into the cell and proximally united 
by the strongly enlarged discal spots. The 7. abdominal segment of the cf above weakly emarginate, 
beneath provided with a thin spine at each side. — The form which has the most white is ab. pexifascia pexifascia. 
Btlr. (4d); the apex of the cell of the forewing is often white, especially broad in Malacca specimens, and 
the hindwing has distinct marginal streaks. Malacca; Sumatra. — In ab. noctipennis Walk, the marginal noctipennis. 
streaks at the apex of the forewing are long, but gradually decrease in length and are very short on the 
hindwing. Borneo; Malacca; Sumatra; Java. — ab. hyala Druce (= hyula Kirby) has short marginal hyala. 
streaks on both wings. Borneo; Malacca; Sumatra; Java. — ab. namouna Doubl. (= euploeoides H.-Sch., namouna. 
semiradiata Walk.) (4e) has no marginal streaks on the forewing, whilst those on the hindwing are developed 
and often reach to the discal spots. Borneo; Malacca; Sumatra; Java. — ab. modesta Snell, (Voll. ms.) modesta. 
has no marginal streaks on either wing. The locality of this form is not. known; in Mus. Leyden. — ab. 
desmiata nov. (4e, erroneously named noctipennis on the plate), from Mt. Gede in West Java, corresponds desmiata. 
to ab. pexifascia Btlr. The marginal streaks of the forewing are short and do not extend quite to the outer 
margin; they are either separated from a band composed of large and a few small spots (name-type) or 
are confluent with this band; the marginal streaks of the hindwing short and widely separated; anal angle 
at least beneath dirty white, but this spot narrow. Beneath there are 2 blue spots on the forewing proximally 
to the 2. median, one in the cell, the other behind it, this second one more distal than the cell-spot (in the 
other forms the posterior spot is more proximal than the cell-spot). — All these forms strikingly resemble 
Euploeids. They rest on tree-trunks or under leaves with the wings folded together. When touched the 
wings are half opened and a frothy yellowish fluid exudes from the thoracic glands in such a large 
quantity that the body is quite covered by it. Some of the forms descend to the sea-coast. 
24. Genus: Agalope Walk, 
Scaling hairy, wings and legs appearing almost naked. The 1. and 2. subcostals of the forewing 
rather near together, 3.— 5. subcostals stalked, the 5. proximal, 1. radial from the cell, the 2. and 3. stalked, 
upper angle of the cell truncate, much produced, upper arm of the discocellular longer than the lower, the 
