﻿NYMPITALlNyE. (Omup LiMEmrixj., 195 



band, and a subraargiual narrow lunulate macular band followed by a slender 

 marginal pale brown line ; the discal band inwardly-edged with blue scales. Under- 

 side pale purpurescent-brown, with diffused blackish intervening patches between 

 the veins ; cell streak and the transverse markings, as on upperside, violaceous- 

 white. Hindiving also with a violaceous-white narrow subbasal band ; abdominal 

 margin bluish-grey. Body and palpi above black ; thorax and abdomen with a 

 bluish-white band ; body and palpi beneath, and legs beneath greyish-white ; antennre 

 black, tip beneath reddish. 



Female. Upperside dark brown, with blackish intervening bordering patches 

 between the veins ; markings, disposed as in the male, reddish-ochreous, palest in the 

 dry-season specimens. Underside brownish-ochreous, with diffused blackish inter- 

 vening patches ; the markings as on upperside, but paler ochreous, in some sullied 

 ochreous-white. Hindiving also with a narrow subbasal band. Thorax and 

 abdomen above with an ochi'eous band. 



Expanse, S 2^q, ? 2^^ to 2j^o inches. 



Habitat. — Mergui, Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula, etc. 



Distribution. — Males were taken by Dr. J. Anderson on Kisserang Island, and 

 in Mergui, in December (J. Linn. Soc. Z. 1886, 37). Mr. Moti Ram also took a 

 " male in Tavoy " (J. A. S. Bengal, 1887, 423). The type was taken in Malacca. 

 Mr. Distant records it from Province Wellesley and Malacca (I.e. p. 163). It also 

 occurs on Nias Island, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



PANTOPORIA KRESNA (Plate 263, fig. 1, la, b, c, c? ? )• 



Athyma Kresna, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 12, pi. 50, fig. i, cj. Distant, Rhop. Mala}', pp. IGl, 

 445, pl. 16, fig. 3, $ (1883). Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 37. de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, etc., ii. p. 173 (1886). 



Athyma Suhrala, Moore, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 13, pl. 51, fig. 1, ?. Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 344. 

 Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 164, pl. 10, fig. 4, ? . de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 181, $ . 



Imago —Male, Upperside purpurescent brownish-black, with blacker 

 intervening borderings to the markings ; cilia slightly alternated with white ; 

 markings very prominent and bluish- white. Foreinng with a bluish-white claviform 

 cell-streak divided into three portions, the division of the two basal portions being 

 more or less incomplete and slightly defined ; a very large broadly-triangular disco- 

 cellular spot beyond ; three subapical oblique oval spots, a large rounded discal 

 spot and two lower narrow spots, the upper one shghtly indented at the sides ; 

 beyond is a submarginal row of distinctly-defined lunules, followed by a slightly- 

 defined pale brown marginal line. Hindiuing crossed by a narrow inner-discal band 

 and a submarginal row of narrower lunate spots, followed by a pale brown 



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