NYMPIIALID.E. NYMPH ALIN.^. CIRRIIOCIIROA. 107 



This is an exceedingly well-marked and distinct species, and differs from all others in 

 having a small round brown spot placed near the base on the underside of the hindwing on 

 a white band. It is somewhat variable ; in some specimens the margmal markings on the 

 upperside are very prominent, in others they are obsolete ; the ground-colour of the under- 

 side is sometimes ochreous, sometimes ferruginous, and sometimes dark hair-brown coloured. 

 In Ceylon it is " Found in the Western and Central Provinces ; plains and up to 4,000 

 feet, in forest land, at all times, but chiefly during the S.-W. monsoon. Flight slow, heavy ; 

 settles with wings open, easily captured" {HuUhison). "Occurs everywhere: joins in the 

 up-country flights, February and March in fair numbers" (^Mackwood). It is very common 

 in Calcutta, and the Indian Museum, Calcutta, possesses specimens from Cachar, Rangoon, 

 Upper Tenasserim, Mergui, Orissa, Trevandrum, Ceylon and the South Andamans. 



aenus 63.— OIHRHOOHROA, Doubleday. (Plate XXIV). 



Cirrochroa, Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. i, p. iS7 (1848) ; id., Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 62 (1881) ; 

 id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 177 (1883). 



♦' Head, of moderate size, clothed with hairs. Eyes, ovate, not remarkably prominent. 

 Palpi slic'htly divergent, ascending, rising above the forehead, scaly; the second 

 ioint 'furnished with a slight dorsal tuft, and externally with numerous erect setae. 

 First joint curved, veiy short ; second joint five times as long as the first, swollen 

 at the middle, tapering almost to a point at the apex; third joint slender, acicu- 

 lar barely one-seventh the length of the second. Antenmv, of moderate length, gradually 

 thickening into a slender club, the articulations of which are not more distmct than those of 

 the other portion of the antennae. Thorax, moderately stout, oval, hairy. Abdomen, small, 

 scarcely half the length of the inner margin of the hindwing. Forewing, subtnangular ; 

 the costal margin rounded ; the outer margin about two-thirds the length of the costal 

 marcTin nearly straight, or slightly concave [sometimes convex] ; m«.;- margm rather shorter 

 than'the outer, slightly emarginate. Costal nervure not ^^i^n^^ng ioih^ middle of the costa. 

 Subcostal nervure emitting Us /f../ nervule shortly before its .<.w«./. at the end of the cell ; its 

 tkird^i about two-thirds the distance between the cell and the apex ; the fourtk nearer to the 

 third than to the apex ; the third terminating at the apex. Upper dtsco-cellular nervule nearly 

 wantincr- ;«/<W/. disco-cellular curved inwards, or slightly angular ; /.zc/.r d.sco-cellular very 

 slender nearly straight, more than double the length of the middle disco-cellular, joining the 

 median nervure at a short distance before the origin of its second nervule. Internal nervure 

 wantin- Hindwing, obovate ; the outer margin slightly sinuate ; the inner emarginate 

 near the'anal angle /'r^.^^A?/ ^.f/'z^^r^ simple, curved outwards. Discoidal nervule appearing 

 to be a third subcostal nervule, but little curved. Discoidal cell open. Abdominal fold ample. 

 Forelegs of the male scaly, the femur and base of the tibia slightly, apex of the tibia and 

 the tarsus thickly covered with long hairs. TMa shorter _ than the femur, but longer 

 than the /^..«.. which is subcylindric, slightly pointed, one-jointed Of the /.;««/. scaly. 

 Tibia smooth, slightly shorter than the femur. Tarsus about the length of the t.b.a, five- 

 iointed ; its first joint cylindric. slightly curved, smooth, about twice the length of the other 

 oints combined ; second and third joints transverse, of equal breadth, the latter rather 

 shorter than the former ; fourth joint rather tapering ; all these with a spine on each side at 

 the anex covered by a tuft of hairs at the base of the following joint ; fifth joint narrower, 

 t.pering 'towards the apex, which is mucronate. Middle and hindlegs, with the femora, 

 tibiaa. and tarsi nearly of equal length. Z.'^A. spiny, especially towards the apex ; their 

 spurs distinct. 7am nearly cylindric, spiny ; the spines at the sides longest, those of the lo^^'er 

 surface arranged in two nearly regular series. Fust joint longer than the rest combined ; 

 second third, and fourth progressively, though but little, shorter, all of similar form, as is the 

 fifth ;hich is about equalin length to the second. a.:a. curved, grooved below, Paroj 

 nychia bilaciniate ; the outer lacinia subtriangular, broader than, and about as long as, the 

 ciaw ; inner shorter, strap-shaped. Pulvillus jointed, as long as the claws ; the second joint 

 broad." {Doubleday, 1. c.) 



