NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALIN^. CIRRHOCHROA. US 



Habitat : Sikkim, Assam, Malacca. 

 Expanse : 3 inches. 



Description: "Female, nearly allied to C w«V///V<r, Moore, the wings more rounded, 

 /brewing less produced ; markings of the forewiiig above almost obsolete ; outer undulated line 

 of hindiving much more distinct. Underside, all the bands and spots tawny instead of ochre 

 yellow." 



*' I have no doubt that this species is distinct from C. viiikHa j the colouration of the bands 

 below is strikingly different." (Butler, 1. c.) 



In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, is a single male of this species from Sikkim so named by 

 Mr. Moore. The outline of this specimen agrees with that of Mr. Moore's sketch of C. mithila, 

 and also with Mr. Distant's figure of C. rotiindata, the markings of the forewing on the upper- 

 side are nearly obsolete, but the bands of the underside are buff rather than tawny. Out of six 

 Sikkim males that belong certainly to one species no two are marked alike on the underside, 

 some are very pale buff, one is ochreous, one is tawny, and some are ferruginous marked with 

 deep purple, but the bands are in almost every case tawny not ochre. C. rotimdata cannot, I 

 think, be maintained as a distinct species. Mr. Butler records it from "near Assam." 



410. Oirrliocliroa anjira, Moore. 



Cirrochroa, anjira, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 584; id, Rothney, Ent. Month. Mag., 

 vol. xix, p. 34 (1882). 



Habitat : Barrackpore ; S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Expanse: ^, 2-62 to 3*00 ; ?, 2-87 to 3-30 inches. 



Description : " Nearest allied to C. aoris ; differs in being less falcate in the forewing, 

 the male above having similar but more prominent black markings. In the forewing the 

 transverse discal sinuous line is more erect, and in the female is less pointed at the angles ; 

 the marginal double sinuous band is broader. Underside, darker in colour, the transverse 

 pale lilac band broader on the foreiving and narrower on the hind-wirig ; this band is also 

 much less sinuous on its inner border." (Moore, 1. c.) 



C. anjira is of course widely distinct from C. aoris, the forewing in the male being rounded 

 at the apex or hardly perceptibly truncate ; in the female it is often distinctly truncate, but never 

 to the extent that obtains in C . aoris. The colouration of the upperside in the male is also 

 of a much deeper fulvous than in C. aoris. Comparing South Andaman males and a Sikkim 

 male identified by Mr. Moore as C. rotimdata, I can find no character by which to segregate 

 them into distinct species. The females of C. anjira are extremely variable in colouration, 

 some are deep tawny above, others coloured like the females of C. aoris. The colouration 

 and distinctness or otherwise of the markings on the underside are even more variable. 



The remaining species of this group represent the genus in South India and Ceylon ; they 

 are restricted to those regions, and are the only species known to occur there ; with the single 

 exception of C. sttijihoei they are darker in tone than the North Indian and Indo-Malayan 

 species, and their ground-colour is ferruginous not fulvous. In all the species the difference 

 between the sexes in outline of wing is more marked than in the northern species, the female 

 having the forewing much more emarginate and consequently falcate than the male. They com- 

 prise two groups distinguished by the form of the pale discal band on the underside, and com- 

 prise three distinct species all found both in South India and in Ceylon, and in each case the 

 Ceylon specimens have the pale discal band of the underside much less prominent than in the 

 South Indian specimens, especially in the males, thus forming more or less defined local races 

 or subspecies, the Ceylon subspecies being best defined in the case of C. thais and least defined 

 in that of C, swinhoei. 



In the case of C. thais the Ceylon race has been separated by Mr. Moore under the name 

 of C. cognata ; he also records C thais from Ceylon, but all the Ceylon specimens of this type 

 that I have seen belong to C. cognata, and are separable from the South Indian C. thais not 

 only by the obsolescence of the discal band on the underside in the male, but by the much more 

 prominent and uniform black border of the upperside. 



