i8o NYMPIIALID-E. NYMPH ALIN^. ATIIYMA. 



vliiie. Ill a Wyuaad specimen on the underside the ground-colour is bright ochieous rather 

 tlian ferruginous, and the black markings throughout are less distinct. Female. Upperside, 

 k^i/i 7vings black with orange markings. Forewiitg with a lengthened tlirice-indented discoidal 

 streak, a broad subapical oblique band, with three spots beyond it divided by the nervules, a 

 broad discal band from the middle of the second median interspace to the inner margin, witii 

 a spot above its upper outer end, and a streak from the first median nervule to the inner 

 angle ; an obscure pale marginal line. Himhving with broad even discal and submarginal 

 bands, a pale marginal narrow band. Underside marked much as in the male, but all the 

 markings broader and tinged with pale ferruginous. 



Mr. Butler (I. c.) in speaking of this species says : " A comparison of the two figures 

 representing A, inara will at once decide their specific distinctness, the commoner species 

 figured by Moore having the orange and white bands considerably narrower than in the typical 

 form represented in the ' Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera.' " The two figures certainly differ 

 as pointed out, but I am not personally aware of the existence of any specimens corresponding 

 \\ii\\ Ilewitson's figure, which is probably exaggerated and erroneous. 



This is a very common species, occurring in Sikkim at low elevations and in the Tarai, 

 and eastwards as far as Sibsagar in Upper Assam, but it is rare in South India. There is 

 also a single male from the Wynaad taken by Mr. Rhodes-Morgan in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. Mr. W, C. Taylor has taken it in Orissa. 



472. Atliyma asita, Moore. 



A. asiia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1858, p. 13, n. 8. 



Habitat : Unknown, probably North India (^M^oore), Upper Tenasserim. 

 Expanse : ^, 2-25 to 2-50 ; $, 2-45 to 270 inches. 



Description: "Male. Differs from A, inara on the upperside of i\\t foreimngxw 

 having the basal portion of the discoidal streak white ; the submarginal row of spots being 

 ferruginous at the apex of the wing only, the rest being white ; and on the hindiviug in hav- 

 ing both bands white. Underside with markings coloured as on upperside." (^Aloore, 1. c.) 

 Female. Upperside indistinguishable from that sex of A. inarina, the discoidal streak 

 of \\\>i foi fwiiig sometimes completely divided into four portions, the submarginal band of the 

 hindwing variable in width. Underside with the bands less tinged with whitish than in A, 

 iiiarina. " Intermediate between A. 7ie/ie and A. inara." (Moore, 1. c.) 



In Major Marshall's collection there are three males and three females of this species 

 all from Upper Tenasserim. The males differ in having in one specimen the submarginal band 

 of the hindwing on the upperside white as described by Moore for typical A. asila, in another 

 specimen it is tinged with orange, in the last it is wholly orange as in typical A. inarina, but 

 all the specimens differ from that species in having the discoidal streak of the forewing white 

 on the upperside. A. asiia appears to be an inconstant local race only oi A. inarina. 



Athytna «^y/^ belongs to this group and is closely allied to A. inara, but the male has no 

 orange markings on the upperside, all the bands and spots are white. A variety of it has been 

 described by Mr. Butler under the name of A. nivifera. The descriptions of it by both Butler 

 and Distant are appended ;* it is recorded, but probably erroneously, from Assam ; it occurs 

 in the Malay Peninsula, but has not as yet been found so far north as Tenasserim. 



* Athyma ne/te. Papilio ncfte, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. iji, pi. cclvi, figs. E. V, feitinle (1779) ; Athyiiia. 

 ne/te, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1858, p. 13, n. 7, pi. 1, fig. 5, jnale and feiita/e ; A. uk'i/cra, 

 Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 540, n. 5, pi. Ixix, fig. 4, 7>iale 

 (1877); A. ne/te, var, nivi/era. Distant, Rhop. Malay , p. 163, n. 8, pl. ;xvi, fig. 6, male ; t, female 

 (1883). Habitat: Assam ? Province Wellesley, Malacca, Java, Borneo Expanse: 7nalc, ■2'\s : female, rt, 

 inches. Desckii-tion : " Male Uitersiue dark fuscous or blackish. Forc7vin^ with a basal cellular 

 streak closely followed by a rounded spot, succeeded by a triangular spot at end of cell, all more or less 

 suffused with pale bluish; three subapical bluish-white spots placed obliijuely and divided by the discoidal 

 nervules ; an oblique bluish-white macular discal fascia directed inwardly, commencing immediately beneath 

 the second median nervule and extending to about middle of inner margin ; a few small submarginal pale 

 violaceous spots, and narrow fuscous .submarginal and marginal fasciae. Cilia alternately whitish. Hindwing- 

 with a transverse bluish-white fascia near base; an outer discal series of small subquadrate spots of the same 

 colour placed between the nervules, and a very narrow pale fuscous submarginal fascia. Cilia as on forewing. 

 Underside pale olivaceous-brown ; pale markings as above, but with some additional medial pale margln.-l 

 markings on/<?/ f 71'///.?, aud a curved basal fascirt to hindwing ; on the latter the pale fuscous submarginal fascia 



