40 NYMPIIALID.E. NYMPHALIN7E. CYNTHIA. 



pale violet oval spot, with a dark brown inner spot attached to it. Hindzving with the false 

 end of the cell marked witli a prominent white bar, beyond which are a series of five round 

 brown spots placed between the nervules, except in the intei-space containing the white bar, 

 a submarginal indistinct lunular oclireous line, and some obscure marginal markings. 

 Female unknown to me. 



The single male described above, which was taken by Captain C. T. Bingham at Popee, 

 Thoungyeen, in September, agrees exactly on the upperside with Javan and Bornean male 

 specimens in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, but differs from them and from Boisduval's figure 

 on the underside in the obscurity of all the markings. In them the underside is castaneous, 

 the cell of the forewing crossed by three and the base of the hindwing by two pale violaceous 

 lines, the disc of both wings by three very irregular similar lines, with, on the forewing, some 

 less distinct marginal ones. Hindwing with a discal series of five oval deep castaneous spots 

 between the nervules, the one in the discoidal interspace wanting ; outer margin pale violaceous, 

 bearing two lunulated castaneous lines, the inner one very dentate between the first median 

 and discoidal nervules. The apex of the forewing in the Tenasserim specimen is more falcate 

 than in the Javan and Bornean examples, but not more so than in Boisduval's figure. The 

 length of the tail to the hindwing is variable, but it is longest in the Tenasserim specimen. 

 A large series of specimens alone can determine whether this difference of marking is of 

 sufficient constancy and importance to give the Upper Tenasserim race separate specific 

 rank. Mr. Wallace (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 341) records T. clarina from Singapore, 

 as also does Mr. Doubleday (Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. i, p. 160), but the species is not 

 included in Mr. Distant's " Rhopalocera Malayana." 



The figure is taken from a male specimen from Upper Tenasserim, and now in 

 Major Marshall's collection, and shows both sides. 



Genus 53.— OYITTHIA, Fabridus. (Plate XXI). 



Cynthia, Fabricius, 111. Mag., vol. vi, p. 281, n. 11, {1807) ; id., Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. i, p. 212 

 (1849) ; id., Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 52 (1881) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 183 (1882) ; Anartia (part), 

 Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 33 (1816). 



"Head, of moderate width, hairy. jEjw, oval, not prominent. Palpi, ascending, con- 

 vergent, the third joint directed almost immediately forwards ; first joint short, much curved, 

 scaly, with one or two setae in front ; second joint three times the length of the first, much 

 swollen beyond the middle, rounded at the apex, scaly, and thickly set in front and exter- 

 nally with long setse ; third joint ovate, about one-fifth the length, and half the breadth, of 

 the first joint, scaly, the scales appressed. Antenna, fully three-fourths the length of the 

 body, terminating in a gradually thickened, short, rather slender club. Thorax, elongate, 

 oval, hairy ; prothorax very distinct. [Abdomen, stout, somewhat short, about two-thirds the 

 length of the inner margin of the hindwing.] Forewing, subtriangular ; costal margin con- 

 siderably curved ; outer and inner margins about equal in length ; the outer emarginate, 

 sinuate ; the inner very slightly emarginate. Costal uerviire extending to the middle of the 

 costa ; subcostal nervure slender, lying close to the costal as far as the end of the cell, five- 

 branched ; its first and second nervules thrown off close together ; the first a little before, 

 the second immediately beyond, the end of the cell ; the third rather nearer to the second than 

 to the apex ; the fourth shortly beyond the third. Discoidal cell not half the length of the wing. 

 Upper disco-cellular nervule very short, directed obliquely outwards ; f?iiddle about half the 

 length of the lower, nearly straight, directed obliquely inwards ; loiuer curving inwards, 

 joining the third median nervule soon after its origin ; this latter subsequently considerably 

 curved. Hindwing, with the costal margin much rounded, shorter than the outer, which is 

 also much rounded, sinuate, often with a short tail in which the third median nervule termi- 

 nates. Inner margin equal to the outer, forming a deep channel for the reception of the 

 abdomen. Pracostal nervure bifid. Costal nervure not much curved near its origin. Discoidal 

 cell opsn, but with a depression on the underside in the place of the lower disco-cellular nervule. 

 Discoidal nervule curved at its separation from the second subcostal nervule. Forelegs, 

 of the male rather slender ; femur and tibia of about equal length, the latter nearly cylindric. 



