﻿NYMPHALIN^. {Grovip potauina.) 11 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purplish fuliginous-brown. Forewing blackish at 

 the apex ; crossed by an outwardly-oblique discal white macular band composed of 

 three spots beyond the cell and two lower spots disposed obliquely between the 

 median veinlets, beyond is a small white discal spot above the upper median, and 

 two small spots obliquely before the apex ; above the posterior angle is a slightly- 

 defined pale fuliginous-white short submarginal lunular fascia. Hindwing with a 

 slightly-defined pale fuliginous-white blackish bordered submarginal lunular line; 

 abdominal margin fringed with greyish-whitish hairs. 



Underside pale brownish olivescent-grey, darker brown apically. Foretving 

 with the discal and subapical white spots as on upperside, the lower discal spot 

 having a small yellow-ringed black ocellus and two adjoining inner discal whitish 

 lunules ; a submarginal slightly-defined whitish lunular fascia. Hindiving with a 

 transverse discal slightly-defined brown line inwardly bordering a whitish lunular 

 fascia and contiguous outer dots, below which is a prominent ocellus between the 

 lower median veinlets, this ocellus has a blue-speckled black pupil and yellow ring, 

 and then a brown outer ring ; a slightly-defined pale fuliginous-white submarginal 

 and a marginal lunular line. Body above olivescent-brown ; palpi and body beneath, 

 forelegs, and femora greyish-white ; fore tibia with a black streak ; middle and hind 

 tibi« fuliginous-white ; antenna ochreous with black tip ; eyes reddish. 



Female. Upperside slightly paler than in the male ; with a broad uninterrupted 

 white band on the forewing, otherwise as in the male. Underside pale brownish 

 olivescent-grey, the broad oblique band of forewing as on the upperside, otherwise 

 as in the male. 



Expanse, ^j 2j^o, $ 2j^ to 3 inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. 



Distribution. — This is a very rare butterfly. "We possess the type specimen. 

 The late W. S. Atkinson obtained a male in Sikkim. There is a male and female in 

 the Hewitsonian collection, and a female in Colonel C. Swinhoe's cabinet, obtained 

 in Sikkim by Mr. Paul Mowis. " A male in Mr. Otto Moller's collection, was taken 

 in Sikkim, in October, at a low elevation ; one female is in Mr. A. V. Knyvett's 

 collection, and a pair in Col. A. M. Lang's collection, all from Sikkim " (Butt. 

 Ind. ii. 53). " This is one of the butterflies which appears to be found only in 

 Sikkim. Mr. G. C. Dudgeon has three males and three females from Native Sikkim, 

 taken in October and November " (de Nic^ville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 134). 



Genus DILIPA. 

 Dilipa, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy. i. p. 201 (1857). de Niccville, Batt. of India, etc., 

 ii. p. 47 (1886). Staudinger and Schatts, Lep. Exot. p. 167 (1888). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing subtriangular ; costa regularly arched, apes narrow 



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