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these species, from which it diiiers by the greater breadth of the Iduish fascia) on the upper 

 surface of the wiugs, autl as the Ceylonese butterfly has been specificaUy described, this insect 

 also requires a distinctive name. 



Genus SYMBRENTHIA (to follow iiiiixoPALPA). 



Symhirntliiii, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. -13 (181G). 



Laogona, Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. t. 10, f. 3 (1836) ; Doubl. Geii. Dinni. Lep. p. 190 (1848). 



Anterior wiugs subtriangular, the costal margin moderately convex, the ape.\ prominent but not falcate, 

 the outer margin more or less coucavely sinuate, the inner margin slightly convex at base, and concavely 

 .'^innate towards outer angle. Costal nervure robust, lirst subcostal nervule emitted at about one-third before 

 end of cell, second just before end of cell, third emitted between end of cell and base of fourth, fourth and 

 fifth bifurcating about midway between base of third and apex of wing ; upper disco-cellular nervule short 

 and concave, lower oblique and slightly concave, median nervules well separated, the first from end of cell. 

 Posterior wings irregularly subovate, the costal margin oblique and very slightly convex, the posterior margin 

 more or less waved and scalloped, and angularly [iroduced at apex of upper median nervule. Costal nervule 

 strongly arched at base and extending to apex of wing; subcostal and discoidal nervules emitted close 

 together near upper end of cell. Body short and robust, palpi long and robust, well projecting before the 

 eyes ; antennae moderately long, with an apical club, which is hollowed beneath and attenuated at apex. 

 Legs moderately long and not prominently robust. 



This genus is well represented in Continental India, and is distributed eastward through 

 the Malay Peninsula and the Indo-Malayan region. To what extent it is distributed throughout 

 the Alalayan Archipelago it is at present impossible to say, l)ut its area seems certainly focussed 

 m Northern Continental India. 



1, Symbrenthia hyppoclus. (Tab. XLII., tigs. 4 <? , 5 5.) 



Papilio llijiqioclus, Cramer, Pap. Ex. iii. t. 220, G, D (1782). 



Vaneasa Ibjiqiuda, Godt. Enc. Meth. is. p. 298, u. 5 (1819); Suppl. p. 818 (1823). 

 Hijpanartia Hippucla, Hiibu. Samml. Ex. Schmett. (1816 — 1824). 

 Papilw Lucina, Cram. Pap. Ex. iv. t. 330, E, F. (1782. 

 Laoyona Hipjiochi, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 762. 



Sijmhnmthia Hyppochis, De Nic. J. A. S. Beng. vol. l. p. oO, n. 18, p. 54 : n. 18 (1881) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1882, p. 243, t. xi. f. 4, 4« ; Kheil, Khop. der lusel. Nias, p. 21, n. 39 (1884). 



Male. Wings above blackish, with the following dark ochraceous markings : — anterior wings with 

 an irregularly shaped fascia extending from base along median nervure to a little beyond end of cell, 

 a curved fascia near outer angle, a short suljapical fascia (sometimes broken as in specimen figured) and a 

 small apical spot ; posterior wings with a central and a sul)marginal fascia and a submarginal ochraceous 

 line. Wings beneath ochraceous, much mottled with castaneous markings, of which the darkest and most 

 prominent is an oblique fascia crossing both wiugs. passing beneath cell of anterior wings and across cell 

 of posterior wiugs, and on posterior wiugs it bifurcates at costal margin ; the costal margin of anterifu- 

 wings is spotted with blackish, and there is a violaceous spot outwardly fuscous between the two upper 

 median nervules of the same wings ; the posterior wings have a bluish marginal patch of scales between 

 the two upper median nervules. Body above blackish, anterior portion of head, pronotal collar, and base 

 of abdomen ochraceous ; body beneath and legs ochraceous. 



Female. Larger than the male, the ochraceous markings above much larger ; wings beneath with 

 the ground colour paler than in male. 



Exp. wiugs, 3 , 40 millim. ; 2 , 50 millim. 



Hab.— Continental ludia ; N.W. Himalaya (Hocking— Moore) ; Bengal (Moore) ; Sikkim (de Nic.) ; 



