112 NYiMniALID.E. NYMPH AI.IN/E. CIKRIIOCIIROA, 



406. Cirrhochroa aicoTaarica, w.-m. ami <ie n. 



C. «/V:o3a»-/V<i, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. 1, pt. ii, p. 231, n. 15 (1881) ; idem, id., 

 vol. Ii, p. 16, n. 17, pi. iii, fig. 5, ntale (1882). 



Habitat : Great Nicobar. 



Expanse : 2-35 ami 2*50 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside bright fulvous powdered with fuscous scales at the 

 base of both -iuuigs, and along each side of the disco-cellular nervules. Foreitjing- with the 

 costal margin narrowly, the apex broadly, and the external margin decreasingly fuscous, and 

 with a small obscure patch of fuscous scales near the inner angle. Himhuiitg with a thin 

 discal striga somewhat discontinuous and nearly straight anteriorly but zigzaged posteriorly ; 

 six rather large rounded spots, and a short streak between the third median and discoidal 

 nervules in the same line as the spots, black ; and beyond the spots three regularly engrailed 

 fuscous strigre, one of which is marginal and the innermost of which is the darkest and is 

 connected with the discal tliin striga by the dark brown margins of the nervules ; with the 

 usual white blotch between the anterior black spot and the discal striga ; and with the dusky 

 fulvous interval between the two outermost marginal fuscous strigse continued for a short 

 distance on to the fuscous margin of the forewing at the inner angle. Underside, both 

 luings much paler, faintly suffused with lilac ; with a common opalescent discal band inwardly 

 bounded with dusky, scarcely perceptible in the forewing but prominent in the hindwing, 

 in which it is nearly straight externally but dentate internally. Hindzving with five of the 

 black spots of the upperside (two interspaces being devoid of a spot) smaller than above, 

 seated, the foremost one wholly, the second and last (which is twinned) partially, upon a dusky 

 ground, the remaining ones upon fulvous of a brighter shade than the rest of the wing ; 

 beyond the spots with two opalescent lunular bands, the first the broader and internally 

 margined with diffused dusky, and the second the narrower and sharply defined, both of 

 which bands are continued faintly and diffusedly on to the forewing ; and with the usual basal 

 and disco-cellular pale fuscous marks." 



"Apparently most nearly allied to C. malaya, Felder, from the Malay Peninsula." 

 (Wood- Mason and de Nichille, I. c.) It is even more closely allied to C. surya, but may be 

 at once distinguished from that species and from all Indian species by the large size of the 

 discal series of black spots on both the upper and undersides, and the prominence of the 

 discal and submarginal opalescent bands on the underside of the hindwing. It is, however, 

 most closely allied to C. clagia, but the outer black border on the upperside of both wings is 

 far less prominent, in C. clagia it includes the discal spots more or less, and is also more pro- 

 minent on the underside than in C. nicoba} ica. 



Mr. de Roepstorff obtained two males at Great Nicobar. 



407. Sirrliocliroa surya, Moore. 



Cirrochroa surya, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc Lond., 1878, p. 827. 



Habitat : Moulmein to Meetan ; Taoo, March, 3,000—5,000 feet ; Moolai, 3,000—6,000 

 feet; Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse : ^, 1-87 to 2-25 ; ? , 2'S inches. 



Description : "Allied to C. lanka, Moore. Male differs above on the fore-wing m the 

 narrower marginal band, a single sinuous line extending with fulvous interspaces to near the 

 apex. Hindzving with the submarginal line more sharply sinuous ; other markings similar. 



described by Mr. Butler, and the last character especially, in contradiction to the suddenly or attenuated fascia 

 in the other species. Felder naturally compared it to C. (^rt/Virfe/rt, C.yo/ia!««^.f not having been then described, 

 and the fact ot his having thus compared it would naturally lead to the supposition that he must have been cog- 

 nisant of Mr Moore's species." 



" I am inclined, however, to the view that specimens will be obtained of a completely intermediate character 

 between C. bajadeti and C. vialaya." {Distant, 1. c ) 



There is a single male of this species from Perak in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. It differs from a Perak 

 example of C. bajadcta in the colouration being paler above, the outer margin of the forewing less excavated 

 below the apex, and wanting the subapical spot On the underside the discal fascia of the hindwing is distinctly 

 narrower and quite even in width throughout. Judging from the single specimens 1 have seen ol these two species, 

 I should have no hesitation in considering them distinct. 



