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Show 318 MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. [May 1, lower radial from the angle; no inner spur ; male with two lengthened sericeous brands between lower median and submedian veins: hind wing less convex externally. Type D. Sylvester. 1. DORICHA SYLVESTER. Papilio Sylvester, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 41 (1793) ; Donovan, Nat. Rep. iv. pl. 129 (1826). Euplcea Sylvester, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M . p. 3. Danais sylvestris, Godart, E n c Me'th. ix. p. 182 (1819). Stictoploea Sylvester, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 303. Euplcea melpomene, Butler, P.Z. S. 1866, p. 300, fig. 2(p. 298), cf. Hab. N. Australia (Cape York). 2. DORICHA PELOR. Euplcea pelor, Doubleday & Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. p. 88, pl. 11. fig. 1 (1847); Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat. Pap. p. 64, f. 153. Stictoploea pelor, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 303. Hab. N. Australia (New Holland). 3. DORICHA (?) ROGERI. Crastia rogeri, Hiibner, Zutrage exot. Schmett. f. 947, 948 (1837), 9. Hab. Unknown. This species does not exist in any of the collections that I have examined. Genus N A R M A D A . Narmada, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 13 (1880). Euplcea (Stictoploea part.), Marshall & de Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 90 (1882). Differs in both sexes from typical Stictoploea in the more triangular form of both the fore wing and hind wing, the fore wing being more acuminate, and the two sericeous brands shorter; upper discocellular with a short spur emitted within the cell. Pattern of markings like Crastia (core). Type HZV. coreoides. 1. NARMADA COREOIDES. (Plate XXIX. fig. 10, cf). Euplcea coreoides, Moore, Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xx. p. 44 (1877) ; Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 301. Euplcea (Stictoploea) coreoides, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 96 (1882). Hab. S. India (Nilgiris). 2. NARMADA MONTANA. Euploea montana, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 329 (1867), cf 2- Narmada montana, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 13, pl. 6. f 1 8 (1880). |
