62 NYMPHALID^. NYMPIIALIN/E. HERONA. 



Description : Male. Upperside black. Foreioing with the costa tawny as far as the 

 discal band, the end of the cell marked with a broad oblique tawny band, below which is an 

 elongated tawny spot not reaching the margin, confined between the first and second median 

 nervules. An elongated tawny streak in the submedian interspace from the base of the wing 

 to about its middle. A discal oblique tawny streak from the costa to near the margin, which 

 is joined to a narrow streak on the margin between the first and second median nervules, 

 below which again is a rounded spot, and another elongated spot on the margin near the 

 anal angle. A subapical oblique tawny streak bearing a conical small white spot between 

 the discoidal nervules. Himhoing black, the costal margin pale tawny, a broad discal tawny 

 band joined outwardly to a submarginal rather less broad similar band, bearing a small round 

 black spot in the first median interspace, a fine marginal tawny line from the anal angle to the 

 third median nervule, with a similar line beyond but extending to the apex. The abdominal 

 margin pale tawny. Underside pale tawny suffused with violascent, the tawny markings 

 alone almost white. Foreiving with a rounded whitish spot below the bifurcation of the 

 fourth and fifth subcostal nervules. Hindwing with a small black ocellated spot in the middle 

 of the first median interspace, and a tawny spot in the cell touching the subcostal 

 nervure. Female similarly marked, but the tawny markings narrower and paler. Under* 

 SIDE darker than in the male, all the markings more conspicuous. 



This is a rather common species in Sikkim, where I have taken it in October between 

 3,000 and 4,000 feet elevation. There are specimens in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from 

 Assam. 



341. Herona aadamaaa, Moore. (Plate xviii, Fig. 76 ? ). 



H. andtint.tnci, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1877, ?• S^S* 



Habitat : South Andamans (Port Blair). 

 Expanse: <J, 3-00: ?, 3*65 inches. 



Description: " Differs from ZT, marathus in the wings being more falcated. On the 

 UPPERSIDE the colour is much darker, the markings are narrower,, paler on the forewing 

 in the male, and white on both wings in the female. Foreioing, in both sexes the mark- 

 ings beyond the cell are elongated and pointed at the end. Hind-wing, the discal band is 

 broken up into spots, and the marginal band from the anal angle is composed of lunules in 

 the male, and of large indistinct lunular spots in the female. Underside, the markings are 

 whiter in the male, and in the FEMALE white throughout." (^Moore, 1. c.) 



The late Mr. A. de Roepstorff has sent numerous specimens of both sexes of H. andamana 

 to the Indian Museum, Calcutta. It is a well-marked species. 



The figure shows both sides of a female South Andaman example in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. 



342. Eerona anertistata, Moore. 



H. angusiata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 829. 



Habitat : Moolai, 3,000—6,000 feet, Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse : 3*0 to 3*2 inches. 



Description: ^^ Female. Similar \.o H. marathus from the Khasia hills. Differs from 

 same sex of that species in having all the maculated bands narrower, these being but half 

 the width of those in the former species. " {_Moore, 1. c.) 



There are five specimens of H. angustata in Major Marshall's collection, a female taken in 

 October in Aracan by Captain C. H. E. Adamson, a male from Gawlai in Upper Tenasserim in 

 September, and a male and two females taken in April by Captain C. T. Bingham in the Upper 

 Thoungyeen forests in Upper Tenasserim, in the neighbourhood of which the type specimen was 

 taken. The female only differs from the male in having the pale bands much paler and 

 ochreous, not fulvous. The markings are precisely identical with those of H^ andamana^ the 

 pale bands being perhaps a trifle narrower than in the Andaman species. 



