﻿NYMPHALIN^. (Group El'THALIlNA.) ?5 



densely liairy on both the upper and underside of the wing. Bodi/ robust ; palpi 

 porrect, compactly clothed ; antennae with a gradually thickened club ; eyes slightly 

 hairy in front. Sexes alike. 

 Type. — D. Nesimachus. 



LICHORRAGIA NESIMACHUS (Plate 217, figs. 1, la, (J ? ). 



Adolias Nesimachus, Boisduval, Croehard's Edit. Cuv. Reg. Anini. Ins. ii. pi. 139, bis, fig. 1 (1830). 



Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1859, p. 83. 

 Dicliorragia Nedmachus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1808, p. 614. Dnice, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 346. de 



Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 1 41, pi. 19, fig. 82, ^ (1886). Leech, Butt, of China, etc., 



i. p. 132 (1892). 

 Argynnis Hippomenes, Herr. Schseffer, Exot. Schmett. pp. 54, 77, figs. 11, 12 (1850). 



Imago. — Male. TJpperside dark sap-green, with alternate bluish-black and 

 white markings between the veins. Cilia alternately black and white. Foreiving 

 with two short upper and two lower bluish-white streaks within the cell, two less- 

 defined at its end ; an inner and an outer discal series of small round spots, the 

 inner series anteriorly dilating into longitudinal streaks, and the outer series into 

 longitudinally-disposed submarginal more or less complete duplex sinuous very 

 slender marks, followed by a marginal row of small lunate spots ; all the above 

 markings with black intervening spaces. Hindiving with bluish-white cell-spots, a 

 discal series of spots, the upper beiug largest, followed by a prominent outer-discal 

 row of round black spots, a submarginal series of very slender white partially-duplex 

 sinuous marks and marginal lunular line. Underside. Forewing purplish-black, 

 with markings as above, but more prominently defined and wider, the cell and lower 

 basal forming blue streaks. Hlndioing dark purpurescent sap-brown with black 

 intervening spaces ; markings as on the ujjperside. 



Female. TJpperside somewhat paler ; marked as in the male. Underside as in 

 the male, but of a brighter tinge throughout. Body, palpi, and legs blackish-brown, 

 palpi at side and forelegs above streaked with white ; antennae black ; eyes red. 



Expanse, S 2i^o fo 2>^q, ? ^^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Western and Eastern Himalayas ; Assam ; Khasias ; Burma ; 

 Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula, etc. 



DisTEiBiiTiON. — " This species has a wide range, from Kulu, Kumaon, Nepal, 

 Sikkim, Bhotan, Assam, and Burma. In Sikkim, it occurs somewhat rarely through- 

 out the year at low elevations " (de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 140), " One female 

 was taken by Mr. W. Doherty in the Kali Valley, near Jhulaghat, Nepal " (J. A. S. 

 Beng. 1886, 123). Mr. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 350) says " it is not uncommon 

 in Sikkim at low elevations between April and Novembei'." Mr. G. C. Dudgeon has 



