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LEPIDOPTERA TNBICA. 
NAEMADA COREOIDES (Plate 51, fig. 1, la, <$ $ ). 
j Enploea Coreo'ides , Moore, Annals of Natural History, 1877, p. 44. Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 
XIV., p. 301 (1878). 
Narmada Coreo'ides , Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p„ 13 (1880); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 318, pi. 
29, fig. 10, c?. 
Eujploea (Stidoploea) Coreo'ides , Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 90 (1882). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dark velvety olive-brown, palest externally. Fore¬ 
wing with a prominent submarginal and a marginal row of small whitish spots. 
Two elongated silky sexual marks between the lower median and submedian vein; the 
upper streak being clothed with widely-separated short scales of irregular shape with 
broad bluntly-bidentated or rounded tips, and the lower streak clothed with widely- 
separated short tridentate-tipt scales. Hindwing with broader rows of whitish oval 
and rounded submarginal spots and smaller rounded marginal spots, anterior margin 
broadly glossy-cinereous, clothed with densely-packed broad abruptly taper-pointed 
striated scales. Underside paler ; marginal spots as above. Both wings with a small 
violet-blue spot at end of the cell and contiguous discal series beyond; sexual marks 
on forewing pale brown, both clothed with short regularly-disposed round-tipt 
ribbed scales, interspersed with a few narrow whitish scales and a very few extremely 
slender clavate white scales; the posterior margin glossy cinereous and clothed with 
round-tipt widely-separated ordinary-shaped scales. Body dark brown ; head, palpi, 
thorax in front and beneath black, spotted with white ; legs black, fore femora 
beneath white; abdomen beneath with grey segmental bands. Female paler. Both 
wings with marginal rows of spots as in the male, the submarginal series above and 
the discal violet-blue spots on the forewing beneath being larger; two whitish 
elongated streaks above the submedian; posterior border cinereous. 
Expanse, S 3 J, ? 3^ inches. 
Habitat. —South India. 
This species has much the general appearance of Crastia Gore , found also 
commonly in the same localities, but can easily be distinguished from it by the 
presence of tiro sexual marks in the male, the female showing on the underside of 
the forewing two pale corresponding streaks, instead of one, as in C . Core. 
Distribution. —This species appears to be confined to South India. Mr. L. De 
Niceville (Butt, of India, 91) says it “ is not common.” Mr. W. 0. Taylor, in his 
List of Orissa Butterflies, enumerates it as being “rare atKhorda,” but his identifica¬ 
tion of the species is probably erroneous, and requires confirmation. It occurs at 
Bangalore in Mysore, North Canara, Malabar, and the Wynaad. Mr. G-. F. Hamp- 
son (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 348) “found it with C. Core , not uncommonly in the spring 
and autumn, at all elevations on the Nilgiris.” It also has been taken at Trevan- 
drum in Travancore in May, by Mr. H. S. Fergusson. 
