no NYMPHALin.E. NYMPHALIN/E. CIKRHOCIIROA. 



with the ground, inwardly defined with a dark band (this baud edged on both sides with pale 

 fuscous), outwardly by a straight pale fuscous or purple line. Fomving with a narrow band 

 crossing middle of the cell to origin of first median nervule, from thence crossing the interspace 

 below and continued across the base of the hindwing from costal to submedian nervure, with a 

 spot beyond in the cell in the latter wing. The disco-cellulars of the forewing defined with a 

 similar line. The tone of the ground-colour of the upperside in the femile varies, in some it 

 is ochrcous, in others fuscous. 



C. aoris may be distinguished from C, olivacea, the only other species in which the 

 forewing of the male is truncate, by the narrow black border to the forewing and 

 the more uniform colouration of the upperside, these characters being common to both sexes. 

 It is one of the commonest and most distinct as well as the largest species of the genus. 

 It is met with in Sikkim up to about 6,000 feet elevation, almost throughout the year, and 

 occurs equally commonly in the hills to the eastwards as far as Sibsagar in Upper Assam. 



Professor J. O. Westwood (1. c.) has described and figured two gynandromorphous speci- 

 mens of C. aoris contained in the collection of the British Musuem ; in one of these "the 

 gynandromorphism is exactly bilateral, the wings on the right side of the insect having the 

 colouring and markings of the male strongly defined, whilst the wings on the other (left) side 

 are those of the female equally strongly marked." In the other specimen "a singular mixture 

 of the characters of the two sexes" is exhibited in the wings on the right-hand side of the insect. 



Mr. Moore has described a species of Cinhochroa from Sikkim under the name of C 

 abnortnis ; the description corresponds very closely with some specimens of C. aoris, and 

 X can find no reliable character by which to distinguish between them. No indication is given 

 by Mr. Moore as to which species it is most closely allied, or of the outline of the wings, and 

 I place it here provisionally pending further information. 



404. Cirrliochroa aTsnormis, iMoore, 



C. abnormis, Moore, Journ. A. S. B,, vol. liii, pt. 2, p, 19 (1884), 



Habitat : Sikkim. 



Expanse : 2*62 inches. 



Descrittion : " Male. Upperside ferruginous-yellow. Forewing \i'\^ a medial discal 

 transverse black lunular waved band, which is broadest at the costal end, a narrower submar- 

 ginal sinuous band, and a nearly straight marginal line, the interspace from the submarginal 

 band and edge of the wing being suffused with black towards the apex ; an indistinct 

 dusky streak at end of the cell. Hindiving with a medial discal transverse angulated 

 black lunular band, which is broadest at the costal end; a submarginal lunular line, and 

 a slender nearly straight marginal line ; a row of minute black discal dots. Underside 

 brownish-ochreous ; a transverse medial slightly purpurascent band, with waved 

 suffused dusky lunular inner border and slender almost straight outer border, the band being 

 quite narrow where it crosses from fore- to hindzuing, and broadly dilated at the costal end 

 on the forewing and at anal end on the hindwing : contiguous to the inner border of the 

 band is a similar dusky suffused lunular fascia, the interspace being of a slightly pale yellowish 

 colour ; at end of each cell is a dusky double lunular mark, a similar double lunular waved 

 line also extends from middle of the cell on the forewing to below the cell on the hindwing ; 

 outer border of <5^/A «//«^.y traversed by faint traces of a yellowish submarginal lunular band ; 

 on the foreimng is a conspicuous whitish apical patch, and on the hindiving is a row of very 

 small blackish transverse discal dots." {Moore, 1. c.) 



405. CirrhOClxroa Olivacaa, de N, n. sp. (Plate XXIV, Fig. m ? ). 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse : ^, 2-4 to 30 ; ? , 3"3 inches. 



Description: Male. Upperside bright fulvous, in some specimens the basal area 

 bounded by the discal line dark fulvous ; all the viens on the disc distinctly defined with black. 

 Forewing with the disco-cellular nervules marked as usual with a dark fine line on either 

 side, a very irregular black discal line which becomes obsolete before reaching the inner margin, 



