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Show 286 MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. [May 1, C. No sexual mark on fore wing. Hind wing with a glandular patch. Genus TREPSICHROIS. Trepsichrois, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 16 (1816); Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 296 (1878). Euplcea (Trepsichrois), Marshall & de Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 74 (1882). Eudcemon, Dalmann, Billb. Enum. Ins. p. 76 (1820). Male. Fore wing elongated triangular; apex prolonged and slightly rounded, exterior margin very oblique, uneven, somewhat concave in the middle; posterior margin very slightly convex; upper discocellular inwardly oblique, acutely bent before lower radial, emitting a short spur within the cell from the angle : hind wing with a very small pale discoidal glandular patch. Larva of T. claudia with four pairs of long fleshy filaments. Type T. claudia. 1. TREPSICHROIS LINN^I. (Plates XXIX. fig. 4, $, & XXX. fig. 1, o*.) Papilio midamus (part.), Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 251 (1764); Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 479 ; Spec. Ins. ii. p. 52; Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 39. Danais midama (part.), Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 172 (1819). Euplcea midamus, Doubleday & Hewits. D. Lep. p. 87 ; Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. i. p. 183 ; Butler, Catal. Fabrician Lep. B. M . p. 2 ; P. Z. S. 1866, p. 294 ; Kirby, Catal. D. Lep. p. 15 ; Aurivillius, Kongl. Vetens. Akad. Handlingar, 1882, p. 61. Trepsichrois midamus, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 297 (1878); Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 24, pl. 2. f. 8, 9, 8 2- Euplaza (Trepsichrois) midamus, Marshall & de Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 74, pl. 8. fig. 13, 8 2 (1882). Ehrei, Plantse et Papil. pl. 3 (1748), male. Kleeman, Beitr. Nat. Insecten, i. p. 69, pl. 9. f. 1, 2 (1792), female. Hab. N.W. & E. Himalayas, Khasia, British Burmah, Malay peninsula, Penang, Sumatra, Siam, Formosa. From the above references it will be seen that the P. midamus of Linnaeus has hitherto been identified with this species. This erroneous determination has been caused by Linnaeus himself referring, in his original description of P. midamus (Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 470), to Ehret's figure on plate iii. as well as to that on his plate xi., and in the Mus. Ulricae, p. 251, therein supplementing his description of P. midamus with that of the present insect. For true P. midamus, Linn., see below, p. 312. 2. TREPSICHROIS CLAUDIA. Papilio claudius, Fabricius, Gen. Ins. p. 263 (1777); Mant. Ins. p. 25 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 40 (1793), $ ; Herbst, Natur. Schmett. vi. p. 17, pl. 120. f. 5. |
