312 NVMPHALID^. MORPHIN.^. CLEROME. 



294. Stlchophthalma nourmahal, Westwood. 



Thaumanih nourmahal, Westwood, Gen. D. L., vol. ii, p. 337, n. 8 (1851), note ; idem, id., Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lend , new series, vol. iv, p. 178, pi. xviii. figs, i, la (1856) ; id., Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. 

 E. I. C, vol. i, p. 215, n. 442 (1857). 



Habitat: ImWo. ( n est-iwod ) ; ?,\\<.V\m( Moore) ; Sikkim ?? f'/uV^i'j; Borneo. 



Expanse : <?, 3 75 ; ? , 4'25 ( IVc-st-wooJ ) ; 4-8 Sikkim (?) specimen in Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. 



Description : "Female : Upperside chestnut-fuscous, Foreidng with a very broad 

 obHque fulvous fascia beyond the middle, extending to the outer margin and anal angle, a 

 common submarginal series of fuscous V-shaped marks, and another lunular of the same 

 colour ; a whitish subapical dot on the forevving. Underside brownish fulvous, with two 

 narrow oblique almost straight greenish silvery bands, the first passing through the middle of 

 the discoidal cell, the second almost from the middle of the costa to the anal angle, each 

 margined inwardly with a black line ; the outer margin broadly paler, in which on the fore- 

 ving are two feriuginous-fulvous ocelli, on the hindwing three, each marked in the middle 

 with a whitish lunular dot ; two black submarginal lines very flexuous and dentate, and a black 

 spot at the anal angle slightly irrorated with lilascent." 



"The description published by me in the Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, was made from 

 a female at that time unique in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S. The East 

 India Company has, however, subsequently received both sexes from India. The male differs 

 from the female, as I am informed by Mr. F. Moore, merely in wanting the white subapical 

 spot near the extremity of the forewing." 



"On the upperside the wings are of a rich chestnut brown colour, the forewing having 

 a very broad oblique fulvous fascia, extending from the costa to the outer margin and anal 

 angle ; the tip of the wing being dark brown, with a small white subapical spot in the female. 

 There is also a series of submarginal brown V-shaped marks, and another of brown lunules 

 in both wings, [and the hindwing is outwardly bordered with fulvous in continuation of the 

 fascia of the forewing]. Underside, the colour is paler, with a broad oblique subcentral 

 fascia, edged with a slender black slightly irregular line on each side, the one nearest the base 

 being internally, and the outer one externally edged with a line of pale silvery greyish green 

 scales. The discoidal cell in the forewing is closed by black veins, but in the hindwing the 

 outer black striga forms its termination. The forewing has also five ocelli [the first, third and 

 fourth obsolete, replaced by pale spt)ts], and the hindwing three, in the alternate spaces between 

 the nervides, the intervening spaces being marked by paler dots, indicating obsolete ocelli. 

 Near the apex of both wings are two slender dentated black lines, ending at the anal angle [of 

 the hindwing] in a black dot, slightly suffused with lilac scales." (liest-wood, 1. c. in Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond.) 



There is a single female specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, obtained from the old 

 East India Company's Museum, which is marked "Darjeeling," and which is the only speci- 

 men we have seen. In spite of the authorities given above for its occurrence m India, we very 

 much doubt the fact ; of late years, at any rate as far as we know, no specimens have been 

 obtained within our limits. 



Genus 41.— OLEHOLIE, Westwood. 



CUrottie, Westwood, Gen. D. L., vol ii, p. 333 {1851) ; idem, id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., new series, vol, 

 iv, p. 182 (1856), Monograph ; Faunis, Hiibner, Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. 55 C1816). 



"Body moderately robust ; wings large, plainly coloured, with a row of small spots 

 between the middle and the outer margin on the underside. I/cad rather broad. AiiLnms 

 long (two-thirds the length of the forewing), nearly straight, composed of rather long joints, 

 terminated by a long, but very slender, scarcely distinct club formed of short joints. Palpi 

 compressed, ascending obliquely to about the height of two-thirds of the eye, porrected in 

 front nearly to the length of the head, not convergent, scaly ; middle joint clothed behind 

 with hairs applied to the face. Thorax oval, very hairy, Abdomen rather small and slender. 



