174 NYMPH ALID.^. SATYRIN^E. ORINOMA. 



closing the discoidal cell rather before the middle of the wing ; the third branch being angulat- 

 ed at the place of junction, beyond which it is rather curved, Subntedian nervure nearly 

 straight. Hindwing elongate-ovate; costal margin curved ; outer and anal ang'es rounded ; 

 outer margin slightly scalloped, the scallop at the extremity of the third branch of the median 

 nervure being rather more decided than the rest. Prediscoidal [f>iecostal ?] nei-vule erect, curved 

 outwards at the tip. Subcostal nervure arising nearer the body than the prediscoidal 

 [precostal?], branching at a considerable distance from its base. Upper disco-cellular arising 

 at a little distance from the base of the branch, curved, oblique ; lo^acr disco-cellular ahoni equal 

 in length to the upper, straight, rather more transverse, uniting with the median nervure exactly 

 at the origin of its second and third branches, the latter of which is curved ; the discoidal cell 

 being thus closed in a rather acute point at some little distance before the middle of the wing. 

 Forelegs of the male very slender, small, and pectoral, densely clothed with delicate hairs ; the 

 tibia a little shorter than the femur, and the tarsus than the tibia ; the tarsus exarticulate and 

 destitute of claws. Four hitidlegs moderately long, scaly ; femur haii-y within ; tibia scarcely 

 spined beneath ; spurs distinct. Tarsus as long as the tibia, scaly, finely spined beneath and at 

 the sides. Clatvs entire, very curved and acute. Paronychia minute, bifid." i^Weshvood, I.e.) 



The type and only known species of this genus has very little of the general appearance of 

 the Satyiina, and more resembles some of the Danaince or Pieriiuv, but the hairy eyes, and the 

 arrangement of the veins of the wing, almost identical with that of Neorina, indicate its affinity 

 with the Satyrince. 



i68. Orinoma damaris, Gray. (Plate XIII, Fig. 32 <J.) 



O. damans. Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 14, pi. vii, fig. 2, 2 d (1846) ; id.. Gen. D. L., pi. Ixiii, fig 3 (1851). 



Habitat : Himalayas, Cachar, Assam, Burma. 



Expanse : 26 to 3*35 inches. 



Description : " Wings yellowish white, with the veins and marginal bands brown ; the 

 costal nervure [base of the discoidal cell] of the forewing orange, with two black spots in the 

 middle. Underside paler." (Gray, 1. c.) 



Male : Upperside deep swarthy, almost black, with all the markings pale yellowish- 

 white, except the one occupying the basal half of the cell of the forewing, which is rich orange. 

 Fortiuing with a triangular patch of rich orange colour filling the basal half of the cell, 

 outwardly defined by a line of darker colour than the ground, the orange portion marked 

 with two black spots placed obliquely. The upper part of the outer half of the cell is marked 

 with a diffused black patch, below which is a black streak. The rest of the markings are 

 almost identical in pattern with those of Danais aglea, except that the long streak in the 

 interno-median area is divided transversely near its middle by a fine, outwardly-angled black 

 line, instead of longitudinally. Hindwing with the markings also bearing a very general resem- 

 blance to those of Danais aglea, but with the yellow space in the cell divided by a black line 

 parallel with the disco-cellulars. Underside with all the markings paler and more clearly 

 defined. On both wings there is a submarginal row of obsolete small black ocelli, those on 

 the hind'ivint; pupilled with yellowish ; also a marginal line divided by the nervules, within 

 which is a series of elongated rectangular marks. Cilia dark brown, ochreous at the interspaces. 

 The collar and anterior portion of the thorax with orange hairs. Body dark above, pale 

 yellow at the sides, and beneath marked with fine dark narrow longitudinal lines. 



Oiinoma damaris is a somewhat local insect nowhere very common ; in the Kangra 

 district Mr. Hocking records (Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1882, p. 235) that it has been " taken 

 at Jatingri," but is " very local and rare;" in Kumaon Mr. E. T. Atkinson records it as 

 occurring in wooded lowlands, and Major G. F. L. Marshall has taken it in the neighbourhood 

 of Naini Tal ; it occurs in Nepal and Sikkim, and also in the Khasi Hills in the autumn ; in 

 Cachar, where Mr. Wood-Mason took it on Nemotha in October ; and in Sylhet. Captain C. T. 

 Bingham found it in Upper Tenasserim in the lower Thoungyeen forests from March to May. 

 It apparently only occurs in the mountainous parts of North-East India, and at low elevations. 



The figure is taken from a male specimen from Sylhet in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



