48 NYMPHALID^. NVMPIIALINiE. APATURA. 



end of the cell. The outer margins of both wings in Dilipa are more even, and the forewing 

 less emarginate, in other respects it does not differ materially from Apatiira. 



A single species of the genus is known, which occurs from Dharmsala to the Naga Hills, 

 but does not appear to be common anywhere. It is a very beautiful insect, upperside swarthy, 

 forewing with two macular yellow bands, hindwing with the disc resplendent shining golden. 

 In the female the yellow markings are replaced by whitish. 



328. Dilipa morgiana, Westwood. (Plate XX, Fig. 86 (?). 



A/'ittura* morgiana, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 305, n. 22, note {\'iio) ; Dilipa morgiana, 

 Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C, vol. i, p. 201, n. 410, pi. vi<i, fig. s, male aaA female (1857). 



Habitat : Southern India (Weslwood) ? Himalayas ; the Naga Hills. 



Expanse: <J, 2 6 to 2-9; ?, 3'oi inches. 



Description: "Male. [Upperside?] /"c;;-^,^^^^ blackish-swarthy with an irregular 

 oblique median fascia and another beyond the middle golden yellow, and two subapical dots 

 white. iy/«(/tW«_i'- silky golden yellow, with the base and the outer margin broadly fuscous ; 

 the external angle and a wavy streak at the anal angle golden yellow. Underside paler, 

 yellowish-white at the base, and pale mouse-coloured at the apex, more or less powdered with 

 grey. Female similarly marked, but with white not golden-yellow, the hmdwiiig also 

 irrorated with lilac beyond the middle." ( VVestivood, 1. c.) 



Mr. Hocking took this species in the Kangra Valley in August at 6,000 feet. Major 

 G. F. L. Marshall found a single female in his house at Summer Hill, Simla, also in August. 

 I have taken several males flying round the temples on the bare top of Tara Devi, opposite 

 Simla, and one in the bed of the Simla river was taken by Mr. C. A. R. Crommelin ; there 

 are males in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Masuri (Colonel Buckley), four or five 

 specimens were sent from Nepal by Dr. Scully, and there are specimens from the Naga Hills 

 also in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. It appears to be a rare species wherever it occurs. 



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



The next group of genera of the Nymphalina: has the second subcostal nervure of the 

 forewing emitted just before the end of the cell in addition to the first, except in certain 

 species of the genus Neptis in which it is given off beyond the apex of the cell. These latter 

 species have been generically separated from Neptis by Mr. Moore under the name oi Rahinda, 

 and there is some ground for so doing ; but whether generically separable or not, the species 

 of Rahinda are in habits, outline of wings and style of marking, most intimately allied to 

 Neptis, and as the arrangement of the subfamily here tentatively adopted would necessitate 

 that the two genera if separated, should be placed far apart, which is manifestly incorrect, 

 I have preferred to class them as comprising a single genus (Neptis), with certain aberrant 

 species (Rahind^i). This aberrant feature also occurs in two other genera of this group, 

 Hestina Sinii Argynitis ; no generic names have however been suggested for these species, 

 though Brenthis, Hubner (type there, Hiibner) might be used for tjie species of Argynnis 

 which have the second subcostal nervule of the forewing emitted after the end of the cell, 

 Genus 57— APATTTRA, Fabricius. (Plate XX), 



Apittura, Fabricius, 111. Mag., vol. vi. p. 280, n. 9 (1807) ; id., Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, 

 p. 302(1850) ; id.. Felder, Neues Lep., p. 36 (1861) ; Potamis, Hubner, Tentamen, p. i (1S06} ; DoxocoJ>a, 

 Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 49 (1816) ; Ro/iana, Moore, Lep. Cey.. vol. i, p. 27 (1881). 



" Body, robust ; thorax, robust, subovate, very woolly in front and behind. Abdomen, 

 small, elongate-conic in the male ; more robust in the female. WiNGS, of the male generally 

 with a splendid purple gloss, the forewing emarginate in the middle of the outer margin. 

 Head, of moderate size, larger in the male than in the female, hairy, slightly tufted in 

 front. Eyes, prominent, naked. Antenna, about equal to three-fifths of the length of the 

 forewing, nearly straight ; terminated by a rather strong elongate-ovate club, compressed 

 and delicately keeled along the inside. Palpi, porrected obliquely, the tip rising neaily 

 to the level of the top of the eyes. Inner surfaces parallel, nearly united together, so as to 



