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the Himalayan countries through India to Ceylon. It is the only species of Eupterole wnich I met with several 
times in day-time, but evidently only on having been scared up. 
E. minor Mr. from Burma is almost like the preceding and also varies in the colouring, but the two 
transverse lines of the forewing are in the steeper and below the costa more bent; also those of the hindwing 
are less oblicpie. 
E. axesta Swh. (57 d) from the Khasia Hills almost looks like a small diffusa (37 a), it is pale yellow 
like it, but it has speckled fringes on the forewing, and also in the basal part of the hindwing dull transverse 
lines. Also allied to testacea Wkr. (57 d). 
E. lineosa Wkr. (31a) is much larger than the preceding, the forewing divided into 4 almost equally 
broad areas by 4 dark transverse stripes; another transverse stripe right a the base, and in the marginal area 
a slightly undulate brown line. Between the median and the distal transverse stripe 2 or 3 dark zigzag lines. 
The colouring is mostly yellowish-brown slightly tinted reddish; darker specimens were denominated fraterna 
Mr., they exhibit thicker transverse stripes and the distal undulate line before the margin interrupted; in the 
2 the markings are less distinct. Our figure already shows a transition to this form. Sikkim, Nepal, Nilgiris 
and Ceylon. 
E. calandra Swh. from the Khasia Hills in Assam, has not quite the size of lineosa (31 a) and differs 
from it by the bright yellow upper surface which is without any marking. 
E. undans Wkr. (57 a). Head and body reddish brown, wiAgs greyish-brown, strewn with dark scales. 
Eorewing with 6 highly undulated lines; hindwing with 3 almost straight, indistinct lines and a highly undulated 
submarginal line. India, Assam, Nilgiris, at altitudes of 6000 ft., in May. 
E. testacea Wkr. (57 d). Head and thorax more reddish-yellow, abdomen and wings paler yellow. 
Through the forewing extend 2 antemedian and 2 median almost straight, indistinct lines; a postmedian, similar 
double line, the proximal one of which is well marked. An antemarginal undulate line; basal and distal areas 
dusted with dark; hindwing with an antemedian line and a double postmedian line; a curved antemarginal 
line. Cachar, Sylhet, Assam, Burma.' 
E. translata Swh. (57 d) differs from testacea by the pale ochreous brown colouring. Forewing with 
an antemedian, median and postmedian indistinct line, but single not double; the submarginal line is removed 
nearer to the margin. Hindwing without the antemedian line; the postmedian line single and straighter, the 
submarginal line better marked. 54 mm. Satara, Puna, Nilgiri Hills. 
E. flavida Mr. (= acinea Swh., procumbens Grbg. i. 1.) (36 b as procumbens). Pale yellow, the $ 
deeper yellow. Recognizable by 3 brown stripes beginning close at- the apex of the forewing and diverging 
towards the proximal margin which they divide into 4 about equal parts. Canara, Khandala, Nilgiris. 
E. plumipes Wkr. (= rubiginosa Wkr.) (37 a). Size and shape of the preceding species, but the colour 
is not light yellow, but in the reddish yellowish-brown, in the $ dark earthy brown, sometimes claret-coloured 
(oenescens Mr.), ochreous-brown (quadrifasciata Mr.) or light yellowish-brown (similis Mr.). Instead of 3 
there are here only 2 brown stripes proceeding from the apical region, the proximal one terminating about 
in the centre of the proximal margin, the distal one before the anal angle. Ceylon, not rare, in the alpine 
districts; I took them yet in Newara-Eliya and World’s End in February; but they fly almost throughout 
the year. 
E. vialis Mr. (31 b). Here the forewing only has yet a stripe extending from the apex to the centre 
of the proximal margin, distinctly marked dark brown, distally bordered with a light yellow. Ceylon, in the 
central parts at great altitudes, in Newara Eliya (1758 m), in May. 
E. unicolor Hmps. (56 B e). This species has in the <$ has no distinct transverse lines at all; there 
are only yet dispersed dark punctiform shades and rests of streaks on the uni-coloured brown wings tinted 
in a claret-colour that indicate their position. The $ is yellower and exhibits an antemedian, median and post- 
median line, the two first lines being curved below the costa. Madras; in the Nilgiris at an altitude of 6000 ft. 
E. citrina Wkr. Walker’s description is not quite clear; a figure of the species is nowheres to be found. 
Whether Sikkhim-specimens reported from there belong hereto, seems to be doubtful also to Hampson. The 
Berlin Museum (Dr. Grukberg) sent us a $ for being figured (37 a), but it seems to me to belong scarcely hereto 
and I rather take it to be a somewhat deviating form of the diffusa-gemina group, citrina has entirely uni-coloured 
light yellow wings, lutosa Griinb. (36 e) may be merely a small yellow form of it. citrina originates from India. 
E. petola Mr. (36 d $, 37 b (J, as petola). Typical of this Javanese species is the group of 3 straight 
parallel lines in the disc and a chain of violettish- brown moon-spots before the marginal area. The basal part 
of the wings is in some GS almost unmarked yellow, but in some $$ it is traversed by dark transverse lines, 
minor. 
axesta. 
lineosa. 
fraterna. 
calandra. 
undans. 
testacea. 
translata. 
flavida. 
plumipes. 
oenescens. 
quadrifas¬ 
ciata. 
similis. 
vialis. 
unicolor. 
citrina. 
lutosa. 
petola. 
