1() NYMPHALID.Ti:. — NYMPIIALIN.5:. — DICHORRHAGIA. 



DICIIOTIRIIAGIA I. 



DICIIOERHAGIA NESSEUS. Figs. 3, 4. 



Dichorrhagia Ncsscus, H. Grose-Smith, " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," Ser. 6, Vol. XL, page 210 (March, 1893). 



Exp. 2f inches. 



jVdlc. Upperside. Dark bluish-green. Anterior wings with the cell 

 crossed by three black bars, that nearest the base nearly obsolete ; beyond the 

 cell, across the disk between the veins, is a curved row of indistinct greyish 

 spots, between which and the outer margin is a row of V shaped greyish markings, 

 elongated inwardly to the extent of aboiit one-third of the wings, those towards 

 the apex being more elongate and narrower than the others ; the outer margin 

 is black. Posterior wings more bluish green than the anterior wings and with- 

 out grey markings, except three narrow submarginal V shaped lines near the apex, 

 with grey lines at their base, the lowest almost obsolete ; on the outer margin 

 between the veins is a series of black conical spots. The veins on both wings 

 are black. 



Underside. Anterior wings bluish black, with the spots beyond the cell 

 more distinct and the bars crossing the cell violaceous, the outer of which is 

 almost obsolete ; the V shaped markings as on the upperside, but more distinct. 

 Posterior wings dark olivaceous, the submarginal V shaped lines at the apex as 

 on the upperside, and continued indistinctly along the outer margin, between 

 the veins, to the anal angle. 



Hab. North-west China (Yankowski). 



In Mr. Grose-Smitli's Colloction. 



Near to D. Nesimaclius, Boisd. but qiiito distinct. 



