NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALIN^. ATHYMA. 169 



centred with a dark brown dot. Front of thorax beautifully variegated with ferruginous, 

 green, brown and blue ; base of abdomen with broad bluish-white band. Underside very 

 deep ferruginous. Foiewing having the discoidal streak with black transverse margins and 

 an ill-defined third portion : curved row of spots as above ; a submarginal row of large white, 

 black-centred spots ; a submarginal and marginal line of white marks ; some dusky patches 

 along posterior margin ; the large portion of the discoidal streak and submarginal row of 

 spots with purple reflections. Hiiidwinq v;ith curved streak near the base, inner band, outer 

 row of recurved spots, submarginal line of lunular marks, and marginal row of spots, white ; 

 abdominal margin greyish." (^Moore, 1. c.) " FEMALE. Larger than the male, and with the 

 pale spots and fascire larger." (^Distant, I.e.) 



Dr. Anderson obtained two males of A. idita in the Mergui Archipelago in the cold 

 weather, and Mr. Distant states that there are "in the British Museum some specimens labelled 

 'India.' " This too is a very distinct species, being the only one in which the submarginal 

 white macular baud on the underside of the/c?/-^z£//«o-bears a series of black spots ; the sub- 

 marginal band of the hind wing is unspotted white. 



457- Athyma kan-^a, Moore. 



A. kanvia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1858, p. 17, n. 17, pi. li, fig. 2. 

 Habitat : Naga Hills ; Borneo (Moore). 

 Expanse : 2-25 to 2*50 (Moore); 2*1 inches, Naga Hill specimen. 



Description : " Female. Upperside brown-black. Forewing with discoidal streak 

 in two portions, the first long, slightly clavate, the second large and triangular ; two [three ?] 

 small oval oblique spots near the apex, the two outer the smallest ; a round spot in middle 

 of the disc, and a spot and a dot on middle of posterior margin ; an ill-defined submarginal 

 row of narrow marks, white. Hindwing with inner and outer narrow band, white, divided 

 by the nervules ; also an indistinct pale brown submarginal line. Underside paler, with 

 darker patches between the veins ; markings as above. Body with two transverse bluish- 

 white bands." {Moore, 1. c.) The male does not differ in markings from the female. 



There is a single specimen of this species from the Naga Hills in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. It has three subapical spots on the forewing, as also has Moore's figure. 

 It is a very small species; and differs from all the black and white species except A. 

 asura and A. stilpitia in having the discoidal streak undivided and followed by an elongate 

 triangular spot beyond ; and from these two it differs by none of the white bands bearing 

 black spots. The markings are similar to those of A, zeroca, female, but in the latter the bands 

 are all suffused with brown, and it is a larger insect. 



The next two species have the discoidal streak entue, with no detached white spot ia 

 prolongation of it. 



45S. Athyiaa jina, Moore. 



A.j'ina, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 172, n. 353, pi. \a, fig. 3 (1857); 'd-i 

 Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, p. 18, n. zt. 



Habitat : Sikkim. 

 Expanse : 2'4 to 3-2 inches. 



Description : " Male. Upperside smoky-brown ; markings creamy-white. Forezoing 

 with the discoidal streak entire, long, broad, and thickening to the extremity ; a series of seven 

 spots from subcostal vein curving outwards to middle of posterior margin, the first being 

 small, second larger, broader, third narrow, fourth small, fifth larger, oval, sixth the largest, 

 somewhat square and indented at the sides, seventh narrow, elongated, triangular ; a sub- 

 marginal row of rather indistinct spots, those on the apex broadest. Hindiuiug with inner 

 band somewhat narrow ; outer band composed of broad lunulated spots ; band across base 

 of abdomen whitish. Underside brilliant ferruginous, posterior margin of forewing blackish ; 

 markings the same as above, but the forcimng with an additional spot to the curved row 



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