. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 242 MTMPHAIiLDJS. Genus EURIPUS. Euripus, Weshvood, in Dblday., Westic. fy Hew. Gen. Di. Lep. 1850, p. 293; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 15; Moore, Lep. Ind. in, 1896-99, p. 39. Type, E. halitherses, "Westw., from Sikhim. Range. Sikhhn eastward through Assam, Burma, and Tenas- serim to China, and southward to the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. <$. Pore wiug triangular, costa arched; apex well marked, subacute ; termen convex, anteriorly concave in the middle, bluntly angulate at apex of vein 2 ; tornus obtuse, dorsum nearly straight; cell open, in
. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 242 MTMPHAIiLDJS. Genus EURIPUS. Euripus, Weshvood, in Dblday., Westic. fy Hew. Gen. Di. Lep. 1850, p. 293; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 15; Moore, Lep. Ind. in, 1896-99, p. 39. Type, E. halitherses, "Westw., from Sikhim. Range. Sikhhn eastward through Assam, Burma, and Tenas- serim to China, and southward to the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. <$. Pore wiug triangular, costa arched; apex well marked, subacute ; termen convex, anteriorly concave in the middle, bluntly angulate at apex of vein 2 ; tornus obtuse, dorsum nearly straight; cell open, in length nearly one-third of wing; upper discocellular minute, middle concave, short, lower wanting ; veins 8, 9, 10 out of 7, latter two touching, 11 free, 10 touching but not anastomosed to 11. Hind wing subquadrate, costa arched, apex rounded: termen scalloped, truncately produced at tornus and between veins 4 and 5, biemarginate between veins 2 and 4 ; dorsum slightly convex; cell open, narrow, vein 7 at base equidistant from 6 and 8. Antennas long, stout; club long and gradual; palpi erect, stout, parallel, third joint very short, slender ; eyes naked; front tarsus one-jointed ; claws of intermediate and posterior tarsi with long slender paronychia and large pulvilli. Key to the forms of Euripus. a. Both sexes without red spots on hind wing . E. halitherses, p. 242. b. Both sexes with one or more red spots on hind wing E. consimilis, p. 244. 268. Euripus halitherses, Doubleday, in Dblday., Westw. fy Hew. Gen. Di. Lep. 1850, p. 293, pi. 41, fig. 2 tf ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 18, pi. 20, fig. 90, <$ $ ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 40, pi. 203, figs. 1, 1 ar-le, 6 2 , & pi. 204, figs. 1, 1 a-\ c, $ . Euripus ciunamomeus, Wood - Mason, J. A. S. B. 1881, p. 272, pi. 4, fig. 4 $. Euripus alcathoeoides, de N. Bidt. Ind: ii, 1886, p. 20 2 • 6 . Upperside deep blue-black. Eore wing with the following creamy-white markings : a streak from base in inter- space 1,
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