148 NYMPilALID/E. NYMPH ALIN/E. PARTIIENOS. 



Description. Male and female. Upperside greenish olivaceous. Fovewing with 

 two basal black streaks which are continued across the thorax, the upper one in the cell 

 giving off a curved fine line to the subcostal nervure, followed in the cell by a pair of black 

 lines placed obliquely, joined posteriorly, then a semi-hyaline band, a black triangular and 

 another triangular semi-hyaline spot, the latter outwardly defined with a fine black line 

 following the contour of the disco-cellular nervules. The disc crossed by a broad band of 

 semi-hyaline spots all defined with black, arranged as follows : — a triangular spot at the base 

 of the lower discoidal interspace, six or seven elongated ones from the costa to the third 

 median nervule, the subcostal interspace in some specimens containing a single spot which 

 entirely fills it, in others it bears two distinct spots, being divided in the middle by a streak 

 of the ground-colour, In those specimens which have two spots in the subcostal interspace, the 

 lower one of the two and the spot below it in the next interspace have two smaller spots 

 placed interior to them. Two large rounded spots towards the base of the median 

 interspaces, and a small irregular one in the space below, placed on a bluish diffused 

 patch, sometimes geminated. A submarginal and marginal even black band, with a black 

 spot placed within the submarginal band in the submedian interspace. Hindwing with 

 two basal black bands much as in the forewing, both terminating outwardly in a white 

 spot ; a discal series of black spots, beyond which are placed five black lines in pairs 

 between the nervules, which are concavely joined outwardly, the nervules on this portion 

 of the wing being broadly bordered with black ; a submarginal series of acutely-pointed 

 black lunules placed between the nervules, and a marginal lunulated broad black band. 

 Underside much paler, all the markings less prominent. Forewing with two distinct 

 black spots in the submedian interspace near the inner angle divided by a fold in the 

 wing, and a curved black line towards the base from the median nervure to the fold, 

 Uindwing with a very fine black line near the base from the costal nervure to the first 

 subcostal nervule, another irregular discal one, beyond which are a series of five duplex black 

 spots, three placed anteriorly (the upper one very large and prominent) and two posteriorly, 

 the ends of the nervules marked with a black spot on the margin, Cilia prominently white 

 on the interspaces. The specimens here described are from Sylhet. 



This species has been recorded from Dacca.* Mr. Wood-Mason obtained numerous 

 specimens in Cachar in the summer months ; it occurs also in Sylhet, Assam, the Andamans, 

 and Dr. Anderson obtained it in the Mergui Archipelago in the cold weather. 



Var. apicalis. " Distinguished from P. gambrisiiis by the forewing having the white 

 band quite diaphanous, without any borders to the veins, and extending broadly and uninter- 

 ruptedly to the costal margin, thence continuing along it to the extreme apex." {Moore, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 829.) 



Mr. Moore records this form from "above Ahsown ; Taoo, 3,000 — 5, 000 feet, " and in 

 Major Marshall's collection are specimens taken in the Donat Range and the Thoungyeen 

 forests in Upper Tenasserim near the locality from which the type was obtained. In his col- 

 lection there are examples from Shillong and the Andamans which also possess the characters 

 given by Mr. Moore as distinctive of /", apicalis ; he possesses other examples from Upper 

 Tenasserim which exhibit these characters, but have in addition the distinctive feature of 

 P. lilacinns, liz., the basal bands of blue on the upperside of the hindwing and a patch 

 of the same colour on the forewing below the first median nervule. P. apicalis appears 

 therefore to be an inconstant and casual form of P. gambrisiiis, and occurs wherever that 

 species is met with, and in each locality exhibits the other features of the local race with 

 which it occurs. 



Var. lilacinus. " UPPERSIDE. Differs from P. gambrisius in the lilac internal area of 

 the forewing and basal area of the hindwing. Underside. In the blue-green basal area 

 of the hindwing, and the much better defined series of black liturte beyond the hyaline 

 band of the forewing." 



' ' I have seen long series of both the Indian and Malayan forms, and am, therefore, 



* Horsfield iind Moore, Cat, Lep, Mus. E, I. C., vol. i, p. 148, n, 303 (1857). 



