14 NYMPHALID.E. — NYMPHALIN^E. — EUTHALIA. 



"Male. Upperside. Anterior wings with the basal luilf dark green, almost 

 black, the outer half paler and slightly metallic, the veins with streaks between 

 them on the paler portion of the wings, being the same colour as the basal 

 half; the cell is crossed in the middle bv an irregular crimson bar, and there is 

 another crimson bar, narrower and somewhat indistinct, at the end of the cell. 

 Posterior wings the same colour as the basal half of the anterior wings, being 

 paler across the disk, and traversed by the dark veins with streaks between, as 

 on the outer half of the anterior wings ; two dark ])ars cross the cell, and there 

 is a crimson elongate spot parallel with the outer margin between the submedian 

 nervure and the lowest median ncrvule ; the costal margin is pale and tinged 

 with a bluish shade. 



Underside similar to the upperside, but paler. Anterior wings with 

 crimson bars across and at the end of the cell wider and more distinct, and a 

 small black spot below the median nervure at its jmicture with the lowest 

 median nervule. Posterior wings with two crimson bars crossing the cell, two 

 crimson spots below the costal nervure and upper median nervule respectively, 

 another crimson spot on the costal margin near the precostal nervure, and 

 another at the base ; on the outer margin at the ends of the dark streaks 

 betw'een the veins is a row of crimson spots, those nearest the anal angle the 

 most distinct and those in the middle nearly obsolete ; the inner margin from 

 the base to the anal angle is broadly edged with crimson. Antenna black, the 

 collar and palpi crimson." 



Hab. Omeishan. 



One specimen only. 



Allied to E. Lubeniina, Cramer, var. Lndonia, Staudinger, and E. Whiteheadi, Grose Smith. 



In the Collection of H. Grose Smith. 



