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nearly equal sized ; the outer discal fulvous line and blackish submarginal band as in 
the forewing; a small oval deep black spot at the anal angle, with a black cloud 
above it reaching to the posterior ocellus; an anteciliary black thread. Dody 
throughout ferruginous. Antenne black. 
** Hxpanse, 5 inches.” 
Hasitar.—Manipur. 
This beautiful species is “nearest to S. Howqua, var. suffusa, Leech (Butt. 
China, etc. p. 114, pl. 1, fig. 3, 2), from Western China, differing in the forewing, on 
the upperside, in the pale apical area being very much smaller, not extending into 
the cell as it does in S, suffusa; on the hindwing the hastate markings in S. Sparta 
are well formed, in suffusa they have lost all shape, having coalesced into an almost 
solid black band. On the underside the ground-colour in S. suffusa is pale greenish, 
in S. Sparta it is ferruginous, but this may be only a sexual difference ; but in true 
S. Howqua, and its named variety, the outer discal line and the submarginal band on 
both wings are half the distance apart that they are in 8. Sparta; and they have six 
and sometimes seven ocelli on the forewing, while S. Sparta has only five” (de 
Nicéville, 1.c.). 
Sub-family NYMPHALINZ. 
Nymphalidi (part), Boisduval, Ind. Méth. p. 14 (1829). 
Nymphalides, Peridromides, Biblides (part), Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. p. 164-5 (1836). 
Nymphalides, Apaturides, Boisduval, Ind. Méth. pp. 16, 24 (1840). 
Nymphalide, Argynnide, Vanesside, Duponchel, Catal. Méth. Lep. Eur. pp. 2, 8 (1844). 
Nymphalites, Argynnites, Peridromites, Biblites (part), Blanchard, Hist. Nat. Ins. il. pp. 330, 332 
(1845). 
Nymphalide, Peridromide, Doubleday, List of Lep. Brit. Mus. Part I. pp. 46, 64 (1844). 
Nymphalide, Ageronide, Eurytelida, Doubleday, Hewitson, and Westwood’s Gen. D. Lep. pp, 81, 
143, 403 (1847-52). 
Nymphalidi, Vanessidi, Argynnidi, Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. pp. 10, 13 (1850). Stainton, 
Manual Brit. Lep. pp. 33, 41 (1857). 
Nymphalides, Lederer, Class. Eur. Lep. p. 21 (1852). Wallengren, Lep. Scand. pp. 4, 59 (1853). 
Nymphalina, Herrich-Schaffer, Lep. Exot. p. 54 (1858); Syst. Verz. Eur. Schmett. p. 3 (1861). Plotz, 
Mitth. Nat. Ver. Vorp. 1886, p. 5. 
Nymphaline, Bates, Journ. Ent. 1861, p. 220; zd. 1864, p. 176. Butler, Catal. Fabrician Lep, B. M. 
p- 46 (1869). Kirby, Catal. D. Lep. p. 147 (1871). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, 1. p.*26 (1880). De 
Nicéville, Butt. of India, ete. ii. p. 1 (1886). Scudder, Butt, E. United States i. p. 222 (1889). 
Leech, Butt. China, ete. i. p. 116 (1892). 
Nymphalides, Vanessides, Apaturides, Argynnides, Kirby, Catal. Eur. Butt. p. 21 (1862). 
Nymphalina (part), Eurytelina, Herr. Schiffer, Prod. Syst. Lep. pp. 16, 17 (1864). 
Nymphalide, Apaturide, Staudinger, Catal. Lep. Eur. p. 15 (1871). Lang, Rhop, Eur. i. pp. 153, 
159 (1884). 
Nymphalina, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 83 (1882). 
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