﻿56 LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



uniformly pale olive-green, the basal area of the hindwing being also of that colour. 

 Expanse, 4 inches. Habitat. Aru (Wallace). Coll. Moore. 



Genus SYMPH/EDRA. 



Stjmphccdra, Hiibner, A'erz. bek. Schmett. p. 39 (1816) ; Zutriige, List, p. 7, f. 1, 2 (1818). 



Doubleday, List Lep. B. M. i. p. 105 (1844). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 34 (1881). 

 Sympluedra (part),* Westwood, Gen. U. Lep. ii. p. 294 (1850). Butler, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 612. 



Distant, Ehop. Malay, p. 112 (1883). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 135 (1886). 

 Adolias (sect. 10), Felder, Neues Lep. p. 35 (1861). 



Imago. Wings short, broad. Foretving triangular ; costa regularly arched, 

 apex obtuse, exterior margin very slightly scalloped ; cell short, open, upper end 

 t-xtending to one-third the length of wings, broad ; first subcostal branch free in 

 both sexes ; first and second subcostals emitted before end of the cell, first at one- 

 third before the end, the third at one-fifth and fourth and fifth at two-thirds beyond ; 

 upper discocellulars very short, convexly angular, lower entirely absent, the cell 

 being perfectly open, the radials from the angles of upper discocellulars ; lower 

 median branch emitted opposite the discocellulars, the two upper medians at some 

 distance beyond ; submedian straight. Hindwing rather short, broadly triangularly- 

 oval, apex and exterior margin very convex, slightly scalloped, abdominal margin 

 short ; costal vein very concave at the base and with a short curved precostal spur ; 

 ■cell short, open ; lower subcostal emitted at one-seventh from the base of upper ; 

 the discocellular from near base of lower subcostal ; lower median emitted from 

 beyond opposite to discocellular. Body small ; palpi porrect, small, compactly pilose, 

 apex short, pointed ; legs squamose ; forelegs slender ; antennas long, with a rather 

 stout club. Byes naked. Sexes alike. 



Caterpillar. — Slightly tapering towards both ends ; the sides armed with a 

 row of ten horizontally projected very long fleshy spines numerously covered with 

 fine hairs of a non-irritating character. 



Chrysalis. — Short, broad ; dorsum keeled ; broadly triangular across the 

 middle ; head bifid. 



Egg. — Unknown. 



Type.— S. Nais. 



SYMPH^DRA NAIS (Plate 209, figs. 1, la ; larva and pupa, 1, b, c, d, e, i, g, S 9 )• 

 Papilio Nais, Forster, Novae Spec. Ins. Cent. i. p. 73 (1771). 



Symphcedra Nais, Kirby, Syn. Catal. D. Lep. p. 746 (1877). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 35 (1881). 

 do Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 186 (1886). 



* Tne Malayan butterfly described as Argynuis Emalea, Giicrin, Deless. Voy. I'lnde, ii. 72 (1843), 

 and referred to the genus Symphwdra by Kirby (Catal. p. 259), by Distant (Khop. Malay, p. 114), and by 

 de Niceville ( Butt. India, ii. p. 187), is unquestionably a species of Cirrochroa. 



