﻿NYMPHALIN^. (Group EUTIIiLIIXA.) 85 



(Euthalia Amisa, Grose-Smith, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1889, p. 315 ; Rbop. Exot. Tan. 

 pi. 1, figs. 4, 5, ? (1889). Habitat. Kinabalu, N. Borneo. 



Genus SAPARONA. 



Forewing rather long, subtriangular ; costa well arched, apex very obtuse, 

 exterior margin even, posterior margin long ; first subcostal branch anasto- 

 mosed to the costal in both sexes, first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before 

 end of tbe cell, second at one-fifth, third at one-sixth, beyond the end ; cell broad, 

 short, open. Hindwing ovate ; apex rounded, exterior margin obliquely convex, 

 slightly waved ; precostal spur bifid ; costal vein much arched ; base of second 

 subcostal and radial at equal distance from the costal vein ; cell open. Thorax 

 robust; palpi rather compactly clothed, apical joint one-fourth length of the second, 

 pointed. Eyes naked. Sexes similar. 



Type.— S. Cibaritis. 



SAPARONA CIBARITIS (Plate 220, figs. 1, la, h, c, d, c? ? ). 



Adolias Cibaritis, Hewitson, Annals of Nat. Hist. 187-1, p. 358 ; Exot. Biitt. v. Ad. pi. 4, fig. 13, cC, 



figs. 12, 15, $(1875). 

 Tancecia Cibaritis, Kirby, Catal. D. Lep. p. 746 (1877). de Nicc'ville, Butt of India, etc., ii. p. 223, 



p!. xix., fig. 77, (J (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purple-brown ; cilia blackish alternated with 

 brownish-grey. Both wings with prominent black-lined cell and basal marks ; 

 crossed by a broad pale purpurescent-white discal sinuous band, extending from the 

 costal vein of the forewing to above anal angle of the hindwing, the band deeply 

 sinuated with a black inner edge, which latter is also angulated above the upper 

 median on the forewing, the outer edge of the band being more or less slenderly 

 defined and followed by a submarginal series of black hastate spots, these spots also 

 having, generally, more or less defined pale brownish-white inner-edged points, and 

 these points, in some specimens, are purplish-white; those on the forewing extending 

 in some and are merged in the discal band, in others these points are blue-scaled on 

 the liindwing, and in these latter specimens the outer border of the hindwing is also 

 thickly speckled with bluish scales between the veins ; abdominal margin pale 

 greyish-brown. Underside pale pulverulescent olive-green ; discal area of forewino- 

 tinged with ochreous ; basal black-lined mai'ks prominent ; the discal transverse 

 sinuous white band, as on the upperside, more prominently and bi'oader edged with 

 black lunules, the submarginal black hastate spots also more prominent, their pale 

 inner-edged points being only slightly pre.sent on the forewing. Body and palpi, 

 and legs, above brown, pale greyish-ochreous beneath ; antennae brown above, 

 reddish beneath. 



