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to the same spot, I next day after breakfast took my net, and as I approached the place was 

 delighted to see the same butterfly sitting on the same piece of dung, and succeeded in 



capturing it I never saw another specimen of it, and it was only after twelve years 



hud ehii)S('d that a second individual reached this country from the north-western part of 



Genus SYMPH^DEA. 



Si/wphatlra, Hiibnor, Verz. bek. Sclnnett. p. 39 (1816) ; Westw. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 294 (1850) ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. i. p. 34 (1881). 

 .lilnlicis, sect. 10, Feld. Neues Lep. p. 35 (1861). 

 /.,■.(•/«*-, BoiscL Voy. A.str. Lep. p. 125 (1832) ; Feld. Nenes Lep. p. 86 (1861). 



Anterior wings subtriaugular, costal margin arched and convex, apex rounded (generally more 

 prominently so in the female): outer margin slightly waved and slightly concave beneath apex; inner 

 margin nearly straight. First and second subcostal nervules emitted before the end of cell, the second 

 longer than the first ; third emitted some distance before the apices of first and second ; fourth and fifth 

 bifurcating at about two-thirds beyond end of cell. Lower disco-cellular nervule practically obsolete, 

 leaving the cell open, or sometimes slender and faintly visible ; first median nervule with the basal 

 portion curved and rounded, and with an apparently common origin with the second at apex of cell. 

 Posterior wings ovate ; costal margin oblique and slightly convex ; outer margin slightly waved and broadly 

 rounded ; abdominal margin nearly straight, but becoming obliquely divergent to anal angle. Neuration 

 generally as in EnthiiUn. Body stout : palpi porrcct and pointed ; antennae variable in length. 



Tliis genus is very closely allied to the following, and as Mr. Butler truly remarks, "The 

 structural characters which separate Sijmplmclra from Adulias f are not very considerable, and 

 from their uncertainty seem almost to indicate a state of transition ; the style of coloration, 

 however, is quite distinct." I 



Sijiiiphwdra is found in Continental India, and throughout the Indo- and Austro- 

 Malayan regions, i^ 



1. Symphaedra dirtea. (Tab. XII., figs. 7 S and 8 5.) 



I'lipiliu Dirtea, Fabricius, Eut. Syst. iii. 1, p. 5!), ii. 184 (1793). 



Aihtlias Bomhtralii, Boiscl. Sp. Gen. i. t. 8, f. 2 (1836). 



.^/.-//<^s l)lri,;i, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepaul, p. 12, t. 10, f. 1, 2 (1846); Horsf. & Moore, Gat. Lep. Lis. Mas. 



E.I. C. i. p. 198, u. 403 (1857); Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, vol. v. p. 84, n. 48 (1859). 

 l.,:ri(,s Dirtea, Feld. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 400, n. 25 (1860). 

 .s'////7y/i«Y/m 7),V/,r/, Butl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 613, n.3; Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 88, u. 3 (1869); Trans. Linu. 



Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 540, u. 1 (1877); Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 346, u. 2; Godm. 



and Salv. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 639, n. 21. 



Male. Wings above very dark chocolate-brown ; anterior wings with a small whitish subapical spot 

 placed beneath the fourth subcostal nervule, and a greenish outer marginal fascia, which is almost obsolete 

 at iipical angle and gradually widens to posterior angle ; the inner margin of this fascia is very waved 

 and subdentate ; posterior wings with a very broad outer liluish marginal fascia, with violaceous reflections, 

 occupying about half of wing, and containing a submarginal series of blackish spots placed between 



* ' -Malay Arc'liipelago,' :iv,\ edit. p. W. f = Euthalia. \ Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G8, p. 014. 



§ Mr. Kh-by (Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. i-,ii (1871) gives AustraUa as a habitat of S. JEroxms. 



