120 NYMPHALIDyE. NYMPHALIN^. STIBOCHIONA. 



it may of course be distinguished from Ergolis by the costal nervure of the forewing not being 

 dilated at the base. The Indian species, the only other one known besides the type, is appa- 

 rently confined to the Himalayas and the tracts east of the Bramaputra. 



4' 7- Psoudergolis Wedah, Kollar. (Plate XXIII, Fig. 109 $). 



Ariadne wedah, Kollar, in Hiigel's Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt. 2, p. 437, n. i (1848); Pseudergolis wedah, Moore, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 240; Precis veda, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lep., p. 191, n. 27 (1871); Precis 

 hara, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C , vo'. i, p. 143, n. 291, pi. ma, fig. i (1857) ; idem, id., 

 Anderson's Anat. and Zool. Researches, p. 923 (1878). 



Habitat : Himalayas, Sylhet, Assam, Chittagong, Burma. 



Expanse : 2-2 to 2-6 inches. 



Description. " Uppkrside golden-brown, darker on outer margins. Bo/k wings with 

 three narrow transverse black bands on the anterior half, the outer band on the hindwing 

 being zig-zagged, with a parallel row of small black spots between the outer and middle 

 bands ; within each discoidal cell are two narrow and rather square-shaped spaces, those 

 on the hindwing being the narrowest. Underside dull brown, marked as above, with deep 

 brown, but the two inner bands broad, the outer very narrow ; on the hindwing, above the 

 marks, within [above] discoidal cell, is a narrow brown mark ; the outer margins are also deep 

 brown." ^!\Ioore,\.c.) On the underside this species is more or less, especially on the outer 

 margins, glossed with pale violet. The female differs from the male only in being somewhat 

 paler. 



In the N.-W. Himalayas and in Sikkim I have always met with this species near water 

 It occurs at Shillong in May ; Mr. H. M. Parish has taken it in the Chittagong Hill Tracts 

 in November; Captain C. T. Bingham has taken it in October in the Donat Range, Upper 

 -lenassenm, and the Indian Mu.eum, Calcutta, possesses specimens obtained by the Yunan 

 expedUion. It ,s not a rare species where it occurs, and has a very pretty soaring flight, and 

 usually settles with wide outspread wings on the upper surface of a leaf 



The figure is taken from a male Masuri specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and 

 shows both upper and underside. 



Genus 65.— STlBOOKIOiTA, Butler. (Plate XIX). 



StibocMona, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., i86S, p. 614. 



"Allied to Diadema \ = Hypolimnasi alimena, but differing from it, from Apatura, and from 

 Adoliasl = Etdhalia\ in having the discoidal cells of both wings distinctly closed, the middle and 

 lower disco-cellulars of forewing forming a continuous arch, the upper disco-cellular of hindwing 

 obliquely arched, the lower a little longer than the upper, slightly arched, and meetin<^ the 

 median nervure somewhat obliquely at the origin of the second and third branches Colours 

 intermediate between Adolias l^ Euthalia\ cocytus and Diadema 1 = Hypolimnasi alinuna. 

 lypical species, S. coresia, Hiibner." {Butler, 1. c.) 



This is a genus of very small e.Ktent, but two species being known, one occurring through- 

 out the H.ma.ayas from Kulu to Assam, the other in Sumatra and Java. The colourattn 

 of the Indian species is very deep blue, with a few lighter blue and white spots and 

 markings. The wings are very evenly rounded, and the sexes very slightly differentiated. 



418. StiTDOChiona nicea, Gray. (Plate XIX, Fig. 81^). 



^^doli-s nicea, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. X3, pi. xii, fig. x (,846) ; id., Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc Lond new 



irr°F M '•5-'"'t'^''''^='''''''^'"''"'^«'^^^^ Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., x868, p. 6:4 n \ AdoZ 

 dolope, Felder, Wien. Ent. MonaLsch., vol iii, p. 184, n. 8 (1859). ' "" 



Habitat: Himalayas, Sylhet, Assam. 



Expanse: ,J, 2-25 to 275 ; $, 275 to 310 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside velvety-black. Forewing with a marginal short 

 submargmal, and a shorter third row of small white spots, the marginal ^w iour led 

 inwai-dlyhy a row of small indistinct blue spots; also indistinct blue mails within di.coS 

 cell. ^W.cv«^ with a marginal row of black spots encircled with blue inwardly, and with while 



