. The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. A descriptive handbook of all the known species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations. Butterflies; Butterflies; Butterflies. 74 DANAlN.^i. EUPLCEA. This species, if it really does occur with Indian limits, is very rare ; we have never seen a specimen. Distant remarks that "it appears to be almost confined to the Malay Peninsula, especially if there should be any error in the locality of Assam, as g
. The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. A descriptive handbook of all the known species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations. Butterflies; Butterflies; Butterflies. 74 DANAlN.^i. EUPLCEA. This species, if it really does occur with Indian limits, is very rare ; we have never seen a specimen. Distant remarks that "it appears to be almost confined to the Malay Peninsula, especially if there should be any error in the locality of Assam, as given by Mr. Warwick to the British ; It is nearly allied to. and probably is only the continental form of, Euplxa viazares, Moore, from Java, of wliich a figure of the upper and underside of a male in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, is given below :—. EUFLCEA MAZARES, Moore. Fourth C";w//.—, Hiibner.—"Forewing elongated, :he outer margin sub- angulated and slightly inarched below the apex ; the inner margin of the male very slightly convex, without trace of a brand, but the hindwing with a small yellowish patch in the cell at the origin of the first subcostal ; {Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zoology, vol. xiv, p. 296, 1878). The elongated forewing distinguishes this group and the two following from the three which precede. Only a single species of this group is found within Indian limits, and only three others are known which represent the group in the Malay Archipelago. The differ greatly from the males in having the hindwing profusely striped with white. The Indian species extends from Burma through the Himalayas to Kulu, and is the widest spread and commonest of all the Euplaas of Northern India, except E. core. HOT to ths Indian species of Trepsichrols. A. Forewing , shot with bright blue, and with bluish-white spots on the outer half. 56. E. {Tn-psicknis) midamus, N. India, Burma. 56. Eliploea midanms, Li
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