246 NYMPHALID^. SATYRIN.E. CALLEREBIA. 



Dkscription : " Differs from Enbia [Callerebia'] scanJa in being larger, and in having 

 the anal angle more falcated. On the underside, the yt';tw//7»- is of a bright ferruginous ; 

 the kindu'iiig is mottled with white nearly throughout, and from near the anal angle, below 

 the ocelli, extends a curved white line." (Moore, I.e.) 



C. annada is the largest species of the genus, and has \he/orewing most elongate, the 

 outer margin being oblique and almost straight, sometimes slightly concave ; it most nearly 

 approaches C. orixa both in outline and markings, and also geographically in its range. 



The ferruginous tint of the underside of the forrwing is very bright in specimens 

 from the Eastern Himalayas ; in those from the Western Himalayas it is much less pronounced, 

 except on a discal patch which includes the ocellus, and is outwardly more or less distinctly 

 margined with fuscous. On the /«'//^zc/«?' the white mottlings are not uniformly spread as in 

 C. scanda, but are distinctly grouped into undulated striae, as in C. orixa ; and there usually 

 is no trace of the four submarginal white spots ; the " carved white line" mentioned above 

 is nebulous and composed of these same whitish irrorations. In typical specimens there are no 

 distinctly formed transverse dark lines, but at the places they should occupy the whitish irro- 

 rations are less dense, showing more of the ground-colour ; in other specimens the lines are 

 distinctly formed, the submarginal one lunulate and ending before the ocelli, the median one 

 highly and irregularly sinuated, the subbasal one scarcely traceable in any. The ocelli at the 

 anal angle are somewhat misshapen and placed obliquely, that at the anal angle being 

 nearest to the margin ; and both are almost always blind, though occasionally with small pupils 

 even in typical specimens. The female is rather larger and paler coloured, but does not 

 otherwise differ from the male. 



C. annada is probably not uncommon, but we have few specimens in our collections. 

 Colonel A. M. Lang, RE., took it in Lower Kunawar, and Mr. Hocking in the Kangra 

 District ; Major C. H. T. Marshall took it in the Chumba State in May ; and Mr. de Niceville 

 at Simla; the type was taken in Bhutan. The Indian Museum has a specimen from Nepal, 

 and it probably is to be found in all the intermediate region, occurring in the rainy season. 



238. OallereTaia hylsrida, Butler. (Plate xv, Fig. 44 <?.*) 



C. hybrida, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1880, p. 147, n. 4 ; C. nada, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 

 1881, p. 306. 



Habitat : North-Western Himalayas. 

 Expanse: ^,2-oto2-4; ?, 2-5 inches. 



Description : " Dr. Watt obtained a series of a Callerebia exhibiting intermediate 

 forms between C. annada and C. ninnala. In the colouration of the underside of the 

 fore-cvinri they agree almost entirely with C. nirmala, but show the submarginal stripe strongly 

 as in C. annada ; on the kindiving they are coloured like C. annada, but have rounded ocelli 

 varying in number from two to five. In expanse they are intermediate, and therefore cor- 

 respond with C. scanda in this respect." {Butler, 1. c.) 



From the above description C. hybrida would seem to be nearest allied to C. ninnala, but 

 it is really most closely allied to C. annada. The original description of C. nada, which is 

 appended below for reference,! gives a far more accurate idea of this species than Mr. Butler's 

 description of C. hybrida does ; we have never seen any specimen with more than two ocelli on 

 the hindwing that could be separated from C. nirmala, and had not Mr. Moore recently admitted 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond;, 1882, p. 237), that his C. nada is identical with C. hybrida, we 

 should have retained this species under the name of C. nada, Moore, and placed C. hybrida, 

 Butler, as a variety of C. ninnala. 



* Erroneously named C. annada on the plate. 



"vtt,^'"'''''7^"*'""''^'xT'''°''^ Habitat: Kunauur. Expanse: w-jZ^, a'oo ;>;«^?<-, 3-50 inches. Dbscription : 

 .u M c ''"*V^- Nearest to C. annada. Exterior margins of Iwlh wings more convex. Uj'PKBsruB similar 



the ocellus of the /<7rf7w«^ comparatively more rounded. Undkbsidb similar; fo-ewine with the reddish 

 patch somewhat broader, and extending to below the lower median nervule ; hindwing with less prominent grey 

 strigi , the transverse zie-zag brown hne distinctly formed and more erect, the two subanal ocelli larger and 

 whitepupilled; above these there is an indistinct row of white spots." (Moore, I c.) ^ 



