NYMniALID/E. MORrillN^. ENISPE. 301 



wing. Beyond the middle are four black dots [on the hindwing]. the first and fourth largest, 

 the latter pupilled with white [these dots are sometimes obsolete]. Faint indications of the 

 bands above are visible below. Head rufous. Antenna: brown, darker towards the apex. 

 Palpi red. Thorax and abdomen brick-red." {Donbleday, 1. c.) Female similar to the 

 male, but with the fuscous marks more defined and extended, Foieiving with the reddish 

 marginal lunules prominent and dividing the fuscous margin as on the hindwing. Hhukving 

 with a discal series of fuscous lunules in continuation of the macular series on the forewing ; 

 both wings with a prominent fuscous median line, corresponding with the median band of the 

 underside, thus making five complete series of dusky markings on both wings in addition 

 to the patch at the end of the cell of the forewing. Underside as in the male. 



The markings of the male insect vary, approximating more or less from the form described 

 above to the markings of the female. The tone of the ground-colour also varies a good deal, 

 a male specimen taken by Mr. Wood-Mason on Nemotha in Cachar in September being of a 

 far deeper and richer orange-red than any other specimens we have seen. 



E. euthymius is found in the mountains to the north and east of Bengal, extending 

 southward as far as Tenasserim. It is not uncommon in Sikkim ; the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 has specimens from the Naga Hills ; it was not met with by Limborg, but Captain C. T. 

 Bingham has taken it in the lower Thoungyeen forests in Upper Tenasserim in March and 

 April. 



The figure shows the upper and undersides of a male speciemen from Sikkim in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



285. Enisp© CycnUS, West wood. 



E. cycm4s, Westwood, Gen. D. L., vol. ii, p. 330 (1851), note ; id., Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. 

 E. I. C, vol. i. p. 212, n. 434 (1857). 



Habitat : Sikkim, Upper Assam, Sylhet. 



Expanse : $ ,y\2; ? , 3*62 to 4*00 inches. 



Description: "Male: Upperside blackish-brown ; base and exterior margins paler. 

 Fomving with an oblique band from the middle of the anterior margin terminating in a 

 transverse series of lunular spots, and a parallel outer row of four quadrate spots, lilac-white. 

 Hindwing with very indistinct marginal and submarginal pale spots. Underside with a 

 transverse bro\vn dentate band from middle of costal margin to anal angle [outwardly distinct- 

 ly and inwardly indistinctly edged with a darker line] ; the base of the wings orange- 

 yellow, with narrow irregular transverse markings [arranged as in E. euthymius, but much more 

 prominent] ; exterior half of wings light brown [darkest inwardly], with [three] indistinct trans- 

 verse [lunular] lines. Hindwing with a small anterior black dot and a posterior white dot. 

 Female : Upperside : Forewing with the base obliquely dull chocolate-brown, the rest 

 brownish-black ; the lilac -white oblique band and spots as in male, but larger, with two inner 

 rows and terminal spots ochreous-yellow. Hindzuing with the basal half to abdominal angle 

 dull chocolate-brown, with a marginal, submarginal, an inner third and a short fourth row of 

 ochreous-yellow spots, the spaces between blackish. Underside yellow throughout, with a 

 slight greenish tinge ; transverse dentate band and markings as in male." {Moore, 1. c.) The 

 discal band and markings of the basal area are very prominent, those on the outer half 

 obsolescent. 



E. cycnus is a rare and very interesting species ; the male has the colouring of a 

 Discophora, and it has the hairy clothing of the hindzving far more extended than in 

 E. euthyrniits, the long hairs covering the whole discoidal cell and as far beyond as the curve 

 in the third median nervule. The female also has the foreiving marked as in Discophora 

 and the hindwing as in Enispe, and on the whole most nearly resembling the same sex of 

 D. lepida, but in structure it is a true Enispe. The type specimen was received from Sylhet ; 

 the Indian Museum, Calcutta, has a male specimen from Sibsagar in Upper Assam ; another 

 with no record of locality, and a female from Sikkim, We know of no other specimens in 

 collections in this country. 



