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Show 1866.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS EUPLCEA. 289 venas subcosiales violaceo-albis: corpus thorace nigro, albo maculato, antennis nigris, abdomine cinereo-fusco. Exp. alar. unc. 6* 3^, $ 3|. Hab. Java. B.M. Note.-This species is also allied to E. eunice, Godart, and is probably the insect intended in the 'Genera' and in the 'Catalogue of the East India Company.' Our present specimens of E. eunice are named from insects that had been determined by Dr. Boisduval, and agree with the original description of the species. 59. EUPLCEA ELEUSINE. Papilio eleusine, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. t. 266. f. D (1780). Euplcea eleusine, Westw., Doubl. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 87. n. 9(1847). Danais eleusine, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 177 (1819). Salpinx eleusina, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. Bd. ii. pi. 9. f. 3,4($)(1806)." Terpsichrois eleusina, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 16 (1816). Euplcea eleusine, F.Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. East Ind.Comp. p. 127. n. 252 (1857). Euplcea mazares, Westw., Doubl. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 87. n. 10 (1847). Hab. Java (Horsf. Coll.). Var. ? Danais darchia, M'Leay, King's Survey of Australia, ii. App. p. 462 (1827); Westw., Doubl. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 87. n. 2 (Eup. darchia) (1847). Hab. Australia. Hiibner (Samml. exot. Schmett. Bd. ii. pi. 9) figures two species under the name of Salpinx eleusina ; he considers them to be the sexes of the species ; they, however, belong to two distinct groups. Division V. Alar supra fusco-carrulescenles: anticar sine macula interna discali ohsoleta; maculis submarginalibus, ad apicem majoribus : posticar raro maculis submarginalibus. Alar subtus maculis submarginalibus ; anticar aliquando macula discali; posticar rarissime maculis discalibus. Subdivision 1. Alar posticar supra punctis nonnullis subapicalibus albis. 60. EUPLCEA MAZARES. Euplcea mazares, F. Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. East Ind. Comp. p. 127. n. 253 (1857) (but not of Doubleday). Hab. Java (Horsf. Coll.). Var. Alis majoribus, obscurioribus, feminar sine puncto costali. Hab. Java ; New Guinea. B.M. Note.-Hiibner's figures of Salpinx eleusina are certainly taken from a variety of Cramer's insect, the discal spots above being only |
