296 NYMPIIALID/E. MORPHIN.E. DISCOPHORA. 



whitish on the forewing and near the anal angle of the hindwing ; the colour between these 

 and the median fascia suffused with brown in the middle, forming a broad indistinct transverse 

 band : a subbasal highly irregular dark zigzag line crossing the middle of the cell on both 

 win<Ts, within which are on the forewing three dark spots in a row across the cell, and on the 

 hindwing two dark dots below the cell ; between it and the median fascia the dark brown 

 striK are longer and more pronounced. Hindwing, with two ocelli just beyond the median 

 fascia, one between the subcostal nervules, the other smaller between the lower median nervules, 

 reddish brown, with diffused white pupil, narrow yellowish and black rings, and a yellowish 

 outer lunule along the inner edge. Female : Upperside vinaceous brown, lacking the bluish 

 reflections and darkest on the outer half, where it is suffused with fuscous, especially about the 

 apex of tlie forewing. Forewing with a broad fulvous fascia from the middle of the costa 

 beyond the cell to near the outer margin between the third median nervule and sub- 

 median nervure, divided at its outer end by a submarginal, highly lunulate dark line 

 into three submarginal lunulate patches. Hindwing, with a more or less prominent conti- 

 nuation of the dark lunulate submarginal line inwardly defined with fulvous lunules, sometimes 

 reduced to a row of small fulvous submarginal spots, the outer margin of both wings tinged 

 with fulvous. No discal patch of raised scales on the hindwing. Underside, as in the male 

 but much paler, and the dark markings ill-defined ; the brown stride pale, but almost uni- 

 formly distributed, especially on the basal half. 



The ochreous spots on the forewing of the MALE are not constant ; in a specimen from 

 the South Andamans all of them are obsolete, except the linear one between the discoidal 

 nervules ; in many specimens from Sikkim and some from Malacca there are two spots in 

 the discal series, and in most specimens from Malacca there are three ; the constant spot 

 being in all cases the lowest of the series. The markings of the female also vary to a 

 certain degree ; the form above described, in which the outer end of the fulvous fascia is 

 divided by a lunulate dark line into three submarginal spots is the common form in Sikkim ; 

 in a specimen from the Andaman Islands the dark line is obsolete at its upper end, and in 

 the form figured by Mr. Distant from Malacca the line is altogether absent, the fulvous fascia 

 extending uninterruptedly to near the outer margin. There are also traces of the median 

 series of spots below the fascia ; generally a single spot on the forewing, sometimes two or 

 more on the hindwing. 



D. celinde has rather a wide range ; it is recorded from Nepal in the British Museum. 

 In Sikkim it is not uncommon ; the Indian Museum, Calcutta, has specimens from Sibsagar 

 in Upper Assam, but we have as yet no record of its occurrence between Assam and Tenas- 

 serim ; in Upper Tenasserim it appears to be more closely allied to D. necho, Felder, from 

 Java, and was identified as such by Mr. Moore from Limborg's specimens ; the only specimen, 

 a male, sent by Captain C. T. Bingham is apparently intermediate between the forms celinde 

 and necho, and is referred to below under the latter name ; in the Malay peninsula it is common, 

 but the Malayan race appears to be nearly as distinct from the typical Sikkim race as D. necho 

 is ; and those from the Andamans are again separable as an insular race from the obsolete 

 character of the fulvous markings in the male. Dr. Anderson took a single male in the 

 Mergui Archipelago in March. It is of the necho type, but the spots are smaller than in our 

 specimen of this species from Upper Tenasserim, and it is an even more decided connecting 

 link between D. celinde and D. necho. 



The figure shows the uppersides of a male and a female both from Sikkim in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



280, Discopliora necho, Felder. 



I?«M/Aorv» «*fAo, Felder, Reise Novara, Lcp., vol. iii> p. 462, n. 782(1867); id., Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 

 Lend., 1878, p. 827 ; .A/<jr//io ? C(r//«(A;, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C, pi. vi, fig. 6, /emalc ; pi. vii, fig. 11, 

 lat-va ; iia, pupa ; 116 — h, structure of itnago (1829). 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim, Java. 

 Expanse : (? , 4*0 ; ? , 4*2 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside paler than in T). celinde. Foramng with an oblique 

 abbreviated fascia immediately beyond the middle, deeply and angulately cut through between 



