114 NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALIN^E. CIRRHOCHROA. 



The next three species have a very wide range. In their detailed descriptions I have given 

 only the localities from vi'hich they have individually been recorded by competent authorities. 

 It will be at once apparent by examining these localities how erratic is the distribution of each ; 

 moreover the characters given in the descriptions are all inconstant, and this being so I would 

 prefer to consider them as one species only, which would stand as C. mithila. Treated as a 

 single species it occurs in Fyzabad, Oudh ; Bholahat, Malda ; Barrackpore near Calcutta ; 

 Sikkim ; Assam ; the Naga Hills ; Sylhet ; Cachar ; Manipur ; British and Upper Burma j 

 the Andaman Isles ; Malacca and Java {Horsjield'). 



C. mithila in a comprehensive sense is of a lighter colouration on the upperside than C. 

 lanka and C. cognata, the forewing of the male is evenly rounded, of the female usually more 

 or less truncated, but never to the extent that it is in C. aoris and C. olivacea. In the male 

 none of the markings of the upperside are very prominent, the inner lunular line of the fore- 

 wing is usually obsolescent, and the margin beyond much less prominently black than in C. 

 lanka, C. surya, &c. The colouration of the underside is extremely variable, some specimens 

 are pale buff almost throughout, others are bright ochreous with the discal band prominently 

 margined outwardly with purple, in others again the ground-colour is darker, but the discal 

 band lacks the outer purple margining ; all these variations are common to the species where- 

 ever it occurs. The discal band across the wings on the underside is of nearly equal width 

 throughout in the forewing, slightly narrower on the hindwing and constricted in the middle, 

 its inner edge usually, but not always, irregularly bounded by a fine double line constricted at 

 each vein with the intervening space yellow, this feature linking it with C. aoris. The female is 

 darker than the male, the colour of the upperside as well as the underside being variable. 



408. Cirrlioclxroa mitliila, Moore. 



Cir>ochron.miihi2a,Uoore.,Vroc.Zoo\.Soc.'Lond.,i?,j2,^.SS^; idem, id., in Anderson's Anat. and Zool. 

 Researches, vol. i, p. 924 (187S). 



Habitat : Bengal, Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse : 1-37 [2"37 ?] inches. 



Description : " Male, Upperside pale ferruginous. Forewing virith the blackish mar- 

 ginal band narrow, its inner row of lunules palely defined ; medial transverse line scarcely visi- 

 ble on either wing ; the row of black spots, white spot on anterior margin, and outer marginal 

 lunular lines of /iWrt'w/;?^ also very palely defined. Underside dull testaceous, glossed with 

 greyish purple ; medial band obsolete, its place faintly defined by a dusky straight outer streak 

 and narrow inner line ; spots on hindwing partly obsolete." (Moore, 1. c.) 



Mr. Moore has very kindly furnished me with a sketch of C. mit/iila taken from the type 

 specimen. In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, there are numerous males taken by Dr. Anderson 

 in the Mergui archipelago in the cold weather, and in Major Marshall's collection there are 

 several others taken in Tenasserim, in the Thoungyeen forests in January, March and April, and 

 in the Donat range in January and April, which agree more or less with Mr. Moore's descrip- 

 tion and drawing. The prominence of the markings and colour of the ground on the underside 

 is variable, but it is impossible to separate the heavier-marked darker-coloured ones from the 

 others which agree exactly with the type. 



409. Oirrliocliroa rotundata, Butler. 



Cirrochroa rotundata, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lend., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 543, n. 4 (1877) ; 

 id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 181, n. 6, pi. x, fig. \a,fcmale (1883) ; id., Butler, Ann and Mag. of Nat, Hist., 



fifth series, vol. xvi, p. 303. n. 27 (1885). 



brownish-ochraceous, with the following black markings :— a narrow, linear waved fascia crossing wing near end of 

 cell and strongly angulated at first median nervule, followed by a row of spots placed between the nervules (absent 

 between the discoidal and third median nervules) and a marginal and two submarginal much-waved fascias. 

 Underside paler. Foreiutng with the medial fascia whitish, containing a triangular brownish spot at inner 

 margin ; apical area brownish, with two long, ovate, contiguous greyish spots at apex, and an indistinct waved 

 darker submarguial lineate fascia. Hindwing with the medial Diack fascia above replaced by a broader pale 

 violaceous fascia beneath, beyond which the colour is more or less shaded with violaceous, the black spots margined 

 with reddish, and two subniarginal pale viulaceous fasciae. />'<?(/;' and /i-.^.f more or less concolourous with wings. 

 Frmale resembles the male, but theyo>-<.'7y/«i,'- on the ui'PERSlDE with a small subapical greyish streak, and on 

 the I'NDEKSIDE with the pale medial fascia crossed by a narrow pale sinuated brownish fascia attached to the 

 triangular spot at inner margin ; the apical brown area also possesses an indistinct violaceous mutli-waved 

 ascia." (Distani, 1. c ) 



