152 NYMniALlD.E. NYMniALIN/E. LEBADEA. 



it is always the same length as, or in a few cases longer than, the outer margin. The shape 

 of the cell of the fore wing too is very different ; in Lebadea the lower disco- cellular nervule 

 is directed outwards from the median nervure, closing the cell with an acute apex at its 

 junction with the subcostal nervure : in Litnenitis it is directed at right angles to both the 

 median and subcostal nervures. 



The genus Lebalea contains but few species — Z^. /jw^w^" occurs in North-Eastern India, Z. 

 atttmiata in Upper Tenasserim, Z. mariha in the Malay Peninsula and Islands including 

 Borneo, and Z. /rt(/«/Cvz also in Borneo. Z. ismeneva.\x<:^\x&?,txQ\AQ% Limenitis ptocris'vc\ coloura- 

 tion, but the discal white band is narrow and directed to the apex, which latter is generally 

 suffused with whitish, and the discal band is followed outwardly by a series of white lunules ; the 

 ground-colour is rich fulvous. It has a weak flight, always settles with outspread wings, 

 usually on a leaf. 



Zey to tli9 Indian species of Lelsadea. 



A, Upperside with the medial band comparatively broad. 



443, L. ISMENE, North-Eastern India. 



B. Upperside with the median band very narrow. 



444. L. ATTENUATA, Upper Tenasserim, 



443. Lelsadea ismene, Doubleday, Hewltson. (Plate XIX, Fig. 79 $). 



L'lineniiis isiitene, Doubleday, Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 276, n. 10, pi. xxxiv, fig. 2 (1850). 

 Habitat : Sikkim, Assam, Cachar, Sylhet, Chittagong. 

 Expanse : $, 2-35 to 270 ; ? , 27 to 2-8 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings rich fulvous, with a white discal band, its 

 inner edge somewhat straight and even, in the forewing somewhat macular, and above the third 

 median nervule directed somewhat inwardly to the subcostal nervure ; followed by a series 

 of deep white lunules outwardly defined with black, on the forewing also with white powdering 

 beyond, a submarginal irregular dentate fine black line narrowly defined with whitish on 

 both sides. Forewing with a short irregular black line at the base of the cell continued to the 

 submedian nervure, a pair of zigzag lines in the middle of the cell and another pair in the 

 interspace below, both pairs enclosing a space brighter coloured than the ground, often with a 

 whitish bar in the cell beyond ; another pair of black lines enclosing the disco-cellular nervules ; 

 the apex more or less broadly white. Hiiidwin^ with the usual fine black basal and cellular 

 lines. Underside pale ochreous, the base of both wings and the abdominal margin of the 

 hindwing greyish, all the markings as above, but less distinct. Female with the ground- 

 colour on the upperside much richer and darker; the discal white band more macular on 

 the foreiuing, the white lunules beyond with the black lunules placed outwardly against them 

 more prominent, the apical white patch smaller, Hindimng with the series of black lunular 

 spots beyond the discal band larger and more prominent than in the male, with a discal 

 series of diffused black spots placed between the nervules, sometimes faintly present in the 

 male. Underside darker than in the male, all the markings more distinct. 



Z. ismcm occurs somewhat commonly at low elevations in forest in Sikkim, Mr. Wood- 

 Mason took it in Cachar, it occurs also in Sylhet, Assam, and the Naga Hills, and 

 Mr. II. M. Parish took it at Rung.amutti, Chittagong, in October. In Major Marshall's 

 collection is one male taken in March at Toungboak, Akyab, by Captain C. H. E. Adamson. 

 The figure shows both sides of a male Sikkim specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



444- Lebadea attenuata, Moore. 



L. atlenuata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1878, p. 829. 

 Habitat : Hatsiega ; Naththoung to Paboga, Upper Tenasserim. 

 Expanse : (J, 2'o ; ?, 2'5 inches. 



