( 0.53 ) 



</. Hiudwing bright fcMTnginons . . . 475. X suljraria. 



Hiudwiug olive-nisset, or rawuuilior colour 474. X. (hih/ma. 

 h. Antemedian pair of lines of forewing, 



above, and first and second discal line 



conspicuous, more or less filled in with 



black, interspace between second and 



feeble third discal line grey in front 



and behind, postdisco-snbmargiual line 



suddenh- jtrojectiiig basad between 1{- 



aud W' to near tliird discal line; no 



blackisii shjidowy band fioni costal niav- 



giu to lunder angle .... 4s",'. .V. (irrentitfrd. 

 Forewing with feeble blackish shade from 



costal margin to hinder angle, or very 



uniform in colour ....... i. 



i. Palpus below scaled white and black (or 



brown), contrasting with the breast . 478. N.funebris. 

 Palpus below of nearly the same dark 



colour as breast and abdomen . .481. N. ^xneus. 



Key to the forms with stigma of N. peneus, comma, accent if em, fnnebris : 



a. One comma-shaped spot, upon cross- 



veins, widest behind . . . 477. N. comma. 



One ovate spot upon cross-veins . 478. N. ftmebris maculosa. 

 Two or three spots, often confluent . . . h. 



b. A triangular spot along W pointing 



distad, another above it . . 478. X. funebris/'uiebri.^. 

 Three spots placed in a half-ring, 



second and third often confluent, 



third at R= .... A9,\. X. penrtis. 



Three spots, 1 in cell, 2 and 3 upon 



cross-veins, one above the other . 482. X. arcentifera. 



474. Nephele didyma. 



*Bphtnx (lidymn Fabricins, SijM. Eiit. p. 543. n. 23 (1875) (Ind. or. ;— Miis. Brit.). 



Xephrhdlihpiw. Hiibner, Verz. hek. Srhm. p. 133. D. 1433 (18-_'-i) (partim) : Kirby, Cut. Lep. Ilel. i. 

 g). 680. n. 16 (1802) (India ; "Austral."" aV'n sjier.). 



Zonilia iiiori>hfiis Cramer, Priji. Erot. ii. p. 84. t. 140. f. n (1777) (Coromandel) ; Walk., List Lep. 

 Inn. n. M. viii. p. 104. n. .') (ls.",6) (Xepaul ; Landoor ; N. India : Canara ; Ceylon ; "Aus- 

 tralia" alia sj)ec.) ; Moore, in Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Inn. Miin. E. L C. i. p. "260. n. 619 

 (1867) (Dukhum ; X. India; Canara; Ceylon); id., Pror. Zool. Soc. Lnnd. p. 703 (1865) 

 (Bengal = obliterans) ; Boisd., Spec. Gai. Lip. IIit.\. p. 139. n. 1 (1875) (larva : " Mad.igascar "' 

 alv( spec). 



Nephele hespera, Butler, Tnoif. Zool Soc. Lnnd. ix. p. 624. n. 14. t. 01. f. 20. 21 (/. p.) (1877) 

 (•'Australia" error loci) ; Moore, Leji. Cei/lmi ii. p. 2. t. 72. f. 1. 1 a. b (/. i) (1882) ; Swinh., 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lnnd. p. 287. n. 4 (1885) (Poona, vii. ix.— xi. ; Sattera, vi. xr. ; Bombay, x.— 

 xii.) ; Swinh., /.-■. p. 435. n. 17 (1886) (Mhow, iv.— vi.) ; Cotes & Swinh.. Cut. Moths hid. i. 

 p. 34. n. 185 (1887) : Swinh., Jonni. liomhoy N. II. Soc. iii. p. 1 10. n. 15 (1888) (Kvirachi. viii. ; 

 = chiron = did;,n,o = inorphens = ohiilerans) ; Warr., Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. p. 203. n. 1 (1888) 

 (Campbellpore, vi.) ; Swinh., Tranx. Ent. Soc. Loud. p. 165. n. 24 (1800) (Mandalay) ; Hamps., 

 Illn^tr. Typ. Specim. Lep. Ilet. B. .M. viii. p. 2. n. 33 (1891) ; Swinh., Cot. Lep. Uet. Mus. Ox. i. 



