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marginal markings as on the forewing. C7/7a fuliginous on both sides of both wings. very long 
at the anal angle of the hindwing. Antenne black, with the slender club tipped with white above, 
the shaft obscurely annulated with white below. Body black above, whitish below, the seg- 
ments laterally marked with whitish, FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, bo/h wings fuliginous-grey, paler 
on the disc. /orewzng with the disco-cellular and discal spots of the underside showing through, 
Hindwing with a submarginal series of pale spots, then a dark band, and finally a series of 
black roundish spots increasing to the fourth which is the largest, the two anal ones small and 
linear, all outwardly defined with a fine grey line. UNDERSIDE, 40th wings with the ground- 
colour much paler than in the male, being almost white, all the markings larger and more 
prominent.” 
** A fairly common species in the low valleys below Darjiling ; the females largely predo- 
minating in numbers, however, over the males.” (de Nicéville, 1. c.) It occurs in Sikkim in 
October and November, probably at other seasons. 
Mr. Otto Moller possesses a curious aberration of a female of this species, which has 
the forewing on the upperside white, tinted with blue at the base ; the costa, discoidal spot, 
submarginal and marginal bands dark brown ; the hindwing is also abnormally pale, and 
sprinkled with blue scales at the base. 
As Mr. Moore described this species, but under a different name, a short time after 
the publication of my description and name, I reprint his description as a foot note.* He 
appears to have described two female specimens as male and female. 
The figures shew both sides of both sexes of specimens from Sikkim in my collection. 
A species very closely allied to WV. cymdze has been described from the Malay Peninsula 
as below.t The male of 4. ¢esse//ata appears to differ from that sex of MV. cymdia in being a 
* Niphanda plinioides, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 524, pl. xlviii, fig. 8, female. HasitaT: 
Sikkim. ExpansE: Male, 1°2; female, 11 inches. DerscripTioN: *‘ MALE and FEMALE. UPpPERSIDE, both 
wings violaceous-brown, with a very faint shade of violet-blue in some lights. Horewing with the discal 
interspaces between the veins whitish-brown, palest inthe male, and traversed by an indistinct darker trans- 
verse discal fascia; a marginal row of black spots Miadwing with a marginal row of whitish-bordered 
black spots, of which the second and third from anal angle are the largest, and two parallel discal curved rows 
of small whitish spots. Cz:za alternated with whitish. UNDERSIDE, both wings dirty-white Forewing 
with a blackish-brown slender streak ascending half length of upper base of the cell, a curved streak from 
below its base to middle of the cell, and a lunular spot at its end; an interrupted discal macular band, 
the upper part with a broad outer fascia, and a submarginal and a marginal lunular band, the latter with 
two blackish spots on its middle. Aindwing with a blackish-brown spot at base of the cell, three subbasal 
spots, one on middle of abdominal margin, and two large spots on costal border, a smaller spot below the 
outer one, and a streak at end of the cell, an irregular discal series with paler brown outer borders, and 
an outer marginal row bordered by a submarginal paler lunular band, the second and third from the anal 
angle the largest. Base of fa/pt white beneath; éegs white, with brown tarsal bands; axtenne annulated 
with white bands.” 
‘* Both sexes on the upperside have much the appearance of a dark female Lycena [=Tarucus) plinius, 
Fabricius, and Z. [=7°.] theophrastus, Fabricius, but these insects are, structurally, quite distinct.” (JZoore, |. c.) 
+ Niphanda tessellata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 572, pl. Ixvi, fig. 6, female; Lycenesthes 
tessellata, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 458, n. 3. pl. xlii, fig. 13, wale; pl. xliv, fig. 21, ferzale (1886): L. ethiofps, 
id., Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xvii, p, 253 (1886). HapiraT: Penang. ExpaAnse : Wale, 13 ; 
Jemale, 15 inches. DeEscriprion : “ MALE. Uprersipg, both wings dark violaceous-blue. [Horewing with the 
costa and outer margin somewhat broadly fuscous. AHWindwixg with the abdominal margin somewhat broadly 
fuscous, some fuscous streaks on the disc, a marginal series of narrow black spots between the veins.] UNDERSIDE, 
both wings greyish mottled with purplish. Forewing with the following dark fuscous markings :—a broad 
basal streak beneath the costal nervure extending to about the middle of the cell, where it is joined toa large 
spot which crosses and extends beneath the cell; a large disco-cellular spot at the end of the cell; a curved 
fascia between the end of the cell and the outer margin, extending from thesecond subcostal nervule to the 
second median nervule ; a somewhat similar fascia extending from the second median nervule near the end of 
the cell to near the inner margin; paler narrow marginal and submarginal fasciz containing a large, round, 
dark spot between the second and first median nervules. Hindwing with the following dark markings :—four 
basal spots, two large spots beyond the cell divided by the upper subcostal nervule, a marginal series of smaller 
dark spots and paler discal spots, of which the most prominent are a transverse one at the end of the cell, and 
a transverse waved series of rounded ones; all these spots are margined with greyish. Body and /egs more 
or less concolorous with the wings.’ (Distant, 1. c. in Rhop. Malay.) Femace. ‘‘ UppEersips, doth wings 
pale glossy blue. Ciz/ia white, streaked with brown. Forewing with a broad dusky black band along the costa and 
exterior margin; a patch below the apex, a disco-cellular spot, and a lower discal spot also black ; a short white 
streak at the posterior angle. A/indwing broadly dusky black along anterior margin, the exterior margin with a 
series of black spots bordered with bluish-white, and an inner dusky line. UNDERSIDE, doth wings white. Fore- 
wing with an irregular basal patch, a quadrate disco-cellular spot, and an interrupted transverse discal series of 
quadrate spots dark blackish-brown; a suffused streak along the costa, a streak bordering the upper portion 
of the discal spots, and a series of spots with inner bordered line on exterior margin pale brown, the penul- 
timate posterior spot being large, prominent, and nearly black. Hindwing with irregular pale-bordered 
basal marks, a contiguous transverse series of four quadrate spots, two spots beyond on middle of anterior 
margin, and a series of spots on exterior margin blackish-brown, the basal and anal spots being most 
