A NEW MORPMD BUTTERFLY 131 



P. plication, Lam. Enc. IV. 736 ; Trin., Spec. Gram t. 223. 



P. Nepakme.y Spr. Syst 1, 321, Dal/, aud Gib., Bomb 

 Fl. 291. 



P. plication, P. costatum, P. nervosum.. Roxb., Fl. lad. 1, 311. 

 Parel and western side of the ghats ; also in Ceylon up to an eleva- 

 tion of 2,000 feet. 



P, montanum, Roxb., Fl. Ltd. I., 313 ; Kunt. Enum., Plant. 

 1, 126. 



Ver. Lalket. 

 Tliana, place named Khardi. Dispersed all over India as far as 

 S. China. Uses not known. 



{To be continued.) 



DESCRIPTION OP A NEW MORPHID BUTTERFLY 

 FROM NORTH-EASTERN INDIA. 



By Lionel de Niceville, F.E.S. C.M.Z.S., &c. ' 



With Plate C. 



Stichophthalma nurinissa, n. sp. 



Habitat : Bhutan. 



Expanse : 6 , 34 to 4'0 ; ? , 4'5 to 5*0 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings differ from those of 

 S. nourmahal, Westwood, from Native Sikkim* in the ground- coiour 

 being of a much brighter shade, red chestnut instead of fuscous 

 chestnut ; in the broad fulvous outer band extending uninterrupt- 

 edly from the middle of the costa of the f orewing to the anal angle of 

 the hindwing, being twice as broad on the hindwing, and not in- 

 wardly bounded as in S. nourmahal by V-shaped markings, which 

 are obsolete, being reduced to obsolescent small rounded dots placed 

 on the internervular folds. Underside, both icings also with the 

 ground-colour much lighter and brighter, the subbasal black line 

 inwardly, and the discal black line outwardly, margined by pale 



* Mr. A. V. Knyvett has obtained three males and a female of this species in 

 Native Sikkim two years running in August : it has also been recorded from Borne). 



