34 NYMPIIALID.E. NYMPIIALIN/E. CETHOSIA. 



the forewing and inwardly defined by a fulvous band. Thorax black, with ochreous hairs ; 

 abdomen ochreous. Female : Upperside, forewing black with a greenish tinge, the inner 

 margin and an irregular spot in the middle of the submedian interspace, greenish-white. 

 The subapical white band, submarginal spots and marginal lunules as in the male. Hindiving 

 with all but the costal and outer margins greenish-white, markings much as in the male, but 

 there is an additional discal series of black marks one in each interspace. Underside with 

 all the black markings as in the male, but lacking the ochreous-red and fulvous bands. In 

 some specimens the base of the forewing on the upperside is ferruginous. 



This is a common species in Sikkim, Assam and the Khasi Hills, though less so than 

 C. biblis. I have taken a single female in Calcutta in the cold weather. Colonel A. M. Lang, 

 R.E., records " a single specimen only obtained in a wild jungly spot on the Gogra in Oudh."* 

 Mr. Wood-Mason took it in Cachar, Mr. S. E. Peal in Sibsagar ; it occurs also in Sylhet, 

 Manipur, Arakan, Pegu, and Upper Tenasserim. 



317. OethOSia mahratta, Moore. (Plate XXII, Fig. 98 ? ). 



C. tnahratia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 556; /'d^/zV/t' o'"!"^, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol, iv, pi, 

 ccxcv, figs. C, D, 7>tale (tySo), nee T>r\iry ; id., Herbst, Pap., pi. cc.vlviii, figs. 3,4(1798); Cethosia cyane, 

 Godart, Enc Meth , vol. ix, p 247, n. 11 (1819) ; Alazonia symbiblis (part), Hitbner, Verz. bek. Schmett., 

 p. 46, n. 421 (1816). 



Habitat : South India. 



Expanse : $ , 275 to 3-5 ; ? , 3*5 to 4-0 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside bright fulvous-red. /J^/vtw'w^ with the apical half, 

 transverse discoidal streaks, and spots between the lower veins black ; a broad subapical 

 oblique white band, crossed on its lower part by two black spots which form part of a 

 transverse discal series, the two upper and lower ones of which are conical and inwardly 

 ringed with white ; beyond these is a submarginal row of small white spots and a marginal 

 series of white angles. Hhnkving with the anterior and exterior margins black, the latter with 

 a series of white angles ; three transverse discal series of black spots, the inner series small and 

 irregularly disposed, the outer row oval, each ringed with white and bordered outwardly by a 

 black lunule, [the margin as in the forewing]. Underside fulvous-red basally, fulvous-yellow 

 exteriorly ; exterior margins with black-bordered, clearly-defined, white angles, each angle 

 including a white streak pointing inwards. Foreiving with the oblique subapical white band 

 and transverse discal series of oval white-ringed black spots as above, with a parellel outer row 

 of white-bordered black lunules ; transverse discoidal and disco-cellular streaks, small basal 

 spots, three small spots beyond the cell, and spots between the veins below the cell black, 

 the latter series interspaced with pale bluish-green. Hindzving with subbasal transverse black 

 streaks, three discal rows of black spots, the outer row of spots conical and broadly white- 

 bordered, each spot having a contiguous outer small black lunule ; interspaces of subbasal 

 streaks and inner discal rows of spots pale bluish-green. Female with markings as in 

 male, but blacker and more prominent. Hindioiug on the upperside having the black 

 borders broader, the discal series of black oval spots larger and partly confluent with the inner 

 series the outer black lunules being bordered with a mixed white and fulvous lunule. Head and 

 //i(7/'ajr fulvous-brown. Abdomen {\AsQyx%, Nearest allied to C. w/^/wm, Felder." ^Moore,\. c.') 



C. niahratta differs from C. cyane on the upperside in having the discal series of white 

 lunules more prominent on the forewing, and in having three series of discal black spots on 

 the fulvous ground-colour in both wings ; on the underside the ground-colour of the apical 

 half of the forewing is not black but concolourous with the rest of the wing, and in the 

 hindwing the medial series of discal black spots in much more prominent. 



The Indian Museum, Calcutta, possesses specimens from Karwar, Bombay {jf. Davidson"), 

 Calicut, Canara, the Wynaad and Trevandrum. It is a well-marked species, and common along 

 the Malabar Coast at the foot of the Ghats, 



The figure shows the upper and undersides of a female from Calicut in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta. 



• Ent. Month. Mag., vol. i, p. 131 (1864-5), 



