NYMPHALID^. NYMPH ALIN7E. CIRRHOCHROA. 113 



Underside purplish fulvous grey ; the discal transverse band broader, and pale bluish purple 

 on the forewinjj, bluish purple-white on the hindwing, its outer border being dark blue, and its 

 inner border red and waved ; other markings red. Female darker above, the discal black line 

 sinuous at the costal end ; a double sinuous marginal line ; other markings and underside as in 

 male." (^Moo>e, 1. c.) 



C. sicrya is a much paler and yellower insect than C. lanka, and the margin of the hindwing 

 on the upperside is concolourous with the ground and bears a distinct black marginal line ; in 

 C. lanka the margin is black, the black line merging in the black border which extends nearly 

 to the lunular submarginal line, the inner submarginal lunular line also is prominent, but in 

 C surya is almost entirely obsolete ; the character of the markings is, however, similar on both 

 upper and undersides. C. sitiya is still more nearly allied to C. olivacea, the males of which 

 may be distinguished from those of C. surya by their larger size, the veins on the disc of the 

 forewing being distinctly defined with black on the upperside, and the marginal fulvous 

 lunules being obsolescent, leaving a more uniform black border ; on the underside the pale 

 discal band in C, olivacea is much wider at the costa of the forewing, and its outer margin is 

 defined by a much darker more prominent purple line. I have not seen the female of C. surya, 

 but the discal band on the upperside not being white, would readily distinguish it from the 

 female of C, olivacea. 



It appears to be a good species confined to Upper Tenasserim, and is usually of very small 

 size, averaging a little over two inches in expanse only. The black border to the forewing on 

 the upperside is very prominent, as the rest of the wing is hardly marked at all. Dr. Anderson 

 took several specimens in the Mergui archipelago in the cold weather, and there are numerous 

 examples in Major Marshall's collection taken by Captain C, T. Bingham in the Thoungyeen 

 forests and the Uonat range from December to April. 



Three species, C. satellita, C. clagia, and C. orissa, of which the descriptions are given 

 below, have been recorded from the Malay Peninsula.* In the shape of the discal band on the 

 underside of the forewing they correspond with C. surya and C. olivacea. 



* Cirrhochroa sateilita, Butler, Cist. Ent , vol. i, p- 9 (1869) ; id., Lep Ex., p 103, pi. xxxviii, fig. 7 (1872) ; 

 id, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 178, n. 2, pi. xi.\, fig. 9, iiiak (1883). Habitat: Perak, Borneo, China. 

 Expanse: 2'6 to 2*7 inches Description: "RIalr. Uppek.side hrovfa\sh-ochr-ACeQi\\^. both mings cro^^sed a 

 little beyond the cells by a broad bright ochraceous fascia, after which the wings are blackish ; the pale fascia 

 of the /ji'«(/7('/«^ contains an incomplete series of black spots placed between the nervules — that at anal angle 

 largest — and two narrow, waved, black submarginal fasciae, the outer of which, above the median nervules, is 

 blended with the posterior black area. Underside paler, the black areas [of the upperside] brownish, the 

 medial pale fasciee containing at their inner margins a narrower greyish fascia, widest on the forewing, where 

 it is also more ochraceous. Forewing with a submarginal, Innately macular, violaceous fascia, bey^md which 

 is a straighter and more distinct pale fascia. Hindzuiitg with a macular violaceous fascia as on the forewing, fol- 

 lowed by two dark, narrow, waved fasciae, the series of black spots larger and more continuous. Body and 

 legs more or less concolourous with wings." 



" This species is slightly variable in the number of black spots visible on the upperside of the hindwing." 

 {Distant, I. c.) 



Cirrhochroa {Argynnis) clagia, Coda.rt,'E,nc.Mi\ih,\o\. ix. Supple., p. 816 (1823); id., Boisduval, Spec. 

 Gen., vol. i, pi. x, fig. 6 (1S36) ; id.. Distant, Rhop. Malay , p. 179, n. 3, pi. xvii, fig. 7, male (1883). Habitat : 

 Singapore, Sumatra, Java. Exp.anse : 21 to 25 inches Description: "Male. Upperside reddish-ochra- 

 ceous, both -Mings with a broad outer marginal blackish fascia, which on the./oreiving is recurved and broadest at 

 the apical angle, these blackish areas possess two indistinct narrow dark submarginal fascije and that on hindiving 

 is either preceded or inwardly margined by a series of black spots placed between the nervules ; a very narrow 

 and non-continuous blackish fascia also cros.ses the hindwing a little beyond the cell, which at the costal margin has 

 an adjacent greyish spot. Underside much paler, crossed by a greyish fascia, as in C. sateilita, which is margined 

 with reddish ochraceous, and beyond which their area is distinctly darker and somewhat tinged with violaceous, 

 containing the narrow submarginal fasciae as in C. sateilita ; the fore%ving has a greyish subapical spot, and the 

 cell is medially crossed by a sinuated dull reddish line, which is continued beneath the median nervure, the lower 

 disco-cellular nervule being similarly coloured ; the Iii!idivirig'ha.& the black spots margined with reddish, and the 

 cell crossed by a sinuated dull reddish line, which extends from near the costal margin to near the submedian 

 nervure. Body and legs more or less concolourous with wings ; the femora, sternum, and abdomen beneath grey- 

 ish. Female differs from the male on the upperside by having distinct traces of a medial broad yellowish 

 fascia on the forewing ; the hindwing having the outer black area narrower, leaving the two narrow waved 

 fasciae very distinct, the spots thereby appearing further removed " 



" The principal variation in the forms of this species appears to consist in the breadth of the outer black 

 margin to the hindwing, and the thereby sometimes consequent assimilation or fusion of the black spots." 

 (Distant, 1. c.) C. niccbarica is a pale local form or race of this species. 



The Indian Museum possesses two specimens of this species collected by Dr. Horsfield in Java 



Cirrhochroa orissa.. Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 399, n, 19 (1S60) ; idem, id , Reise Nov., Lep., 

 vol. iii, p. 3S8, n. 564, pi. xlix, figs. 7, 8 (1866) ; id., Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, p. 340; id.. Distant, 

 Rhop Malay., p. 178, n. i, pi. x, fig. 9,y2v«<i/t; (1883). Habitat : Penang, Province Wellesley, Alalacca, Singa- 

 pore, Borneo, Expanse: 23 to 2'7 inches. Description :" Malh. Uppkrside, /()?-c:c'/«^browiiish-ochract;ous, 

 with a broad transverse yellow fascia crossing the wing at end of cell and the whole apical area black. Hindwivg 



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