NYMPHALID/E. NYMPIIALIN/E. IIELCYRA. 45 



specimens of the former from Borneo in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, the male being quite 

 indistinguishable from C. erota from North India. The female, however, has the discal white 

 band on the upperside much narrower, and nearly of equal width throughout its length, reach- 

 ing the submedian nervure on the hind wing ; the hindwing on the upperside also has four ocelli. 



Gonus 54.— HELCTRA, Felder. (Plate XIX). 



Hekyra, Felder, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. CI., vol. xl, p. 450 (i860) ; idem, id., Neues Lep.. pp. 

 37,44(1861). ^'^^ 



" Head, small ; eyes, naked ; antenna:, medium, the club obtuse ovate. Palpi, scaly, 

 ascending, twice as high as the head. Wings, with the cells open. Forewing, with the sub- 

 costal nervure four-branched, the first branch in the middle of the cell, the second beyond 

 the extremity of it, the third arising before the apex of the wing [and the fourth very short], 

 the first disco-cellular rather long, longitudinal, and with the two discoidal nervules arising 

 from the same point. Hindwing, with the prrecostal nervure emitted beyond the origin of 

 the subcostal nervure." 



"Genus with the neuration of the forewing sufficiently distinct from that of other 

 Nyviphalina:, perhaps allied to Afa/ura." (Felder, 1. c. in Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien.) 



Two species of the genus only are known, the one inhabiting the hills of North-East 

 India, the other Amboina. 



325. Helcyra hemina, Hewitson. (Plate XIX, Fig. 83 <?). 



H. hemina, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Load., third series, vol. ii, p. 245, n. 1, pi. xv, fig. i (1864). 



Habitat : Sikkim, Naga Mills. 



Expanse : 27 to 3*0 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside white. /^<?;t7£v«^ with the apex broadly black, 

 marked with two white spots ; two black spots at the end of the cell, and one near the anal 

 angle of the same colour. Hindiving with seven spots beyond the middle, a submarginal line, 

 and the outer margin (which is very narrow) black. Underside lilac-white. Fotnvin<> 

 spotless, with two indistinct lines of brown near the middle, and one scarcely seen near the 

 anal angle. Hindwing with the spots of the upperside and the submarginal line indistinctly 

 marked in lilac, preceded by arches of rufous-brown ; the black spot (the outer spot of three 

 near the anal angle) crowned with bright yellow." 



" This adds a second species to Dr. Felder's genus Helcyra, which he considers nearest 

 to Apattira. It differs from the neighbouring genera in the rounded club of the antenna, 

 which resembles Argynnis and Callithea. It has the cells of both wings open. In the 

 museum at Leyden this species is put with Charaxes, to which it bears a general resemblance." 

 (Heivitson, 1. c. ) 



This is a very beautiful species, pure shining white with black markings, quite unlike any 

 other species in the NymphaliniB. It is rare also, Mr. Otto MoUer took a single female at 

 Singla near Darjiling, 1,300 feet, in October, which is the only precise record of its capture 

 in my possession. There is a single male from the Naga Hills in the Indian Museum, Cal- 

 cutta. The female does not differ from the male. 



The figure shows both sides of a male Sikkim specimen in the Indian Museum.. Calcutta. 



Genus 55.— SEPHISA, Moore. (Plate XX). 



Sephisa,'^'ioor&. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 18S2, p. 240 ; Castalia (Boisduval, MS.), Horsfield and Moore, 

 Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C , vol. i, p. 199 (1857). 



Head, of moderate size, hairy. Eyes, prominent, reddish, naked. Antenme, long, four- 

 sevenths of the length of the forewing, with a distinct gradually-formed club. Haustelltim, 

 yellow. Palpi, porrected obliquely, black above, pale below, clothed with thick short scales. 



near the bases of the second and third median nervules ; on the underside this fracture or angulation apoears 

 much more distinctly ; the basal curved line which crosses the cell in C deione is also broken and looped in C. 

 cantori I have not as yet received a second specimen of this species, nor have I seen its female, which will' 

 however, almost certainly prove to be somewh.it like the female of C, deione, with the difference oi marking 

 detailed above as found in the other sex," (Distant, 1. c.) 



