186 NYMPHALID.E. NYMriTAMN.Ii. SYMPHTEDRA. 



allied species of which the female only is known, but with the band much reduced on the 

 forewing, entirely absent on the hindwing ; while S. dhtea and S. cyanipardiis are velvety 

 black above, with a broad submarginal puiplish-blue band on the upperside of the hindwing in 

 the male ; the females have the upperside regularly covered with rounded spots throughout, and 

 no trace of a purplish band. In S, nais the discoidal cell of the forewing is entirely open, in 

 all the rest it is closed ; in the first four species at the bifurcation of the second and third 

 median nervules, in S. dirtea and S. cyanipardiis considerably beyond that point. 



Zey to the Indian species of STznphs&dra. 



A. Discoidal cell of forewing open. Antenna a little more than half the length of the forewing. Colouration 



brick-red above, with black markings. 



47S. S. NAIS, Eastern, Western and Southern India, Ceylon. 



B. Discoidal cell of forewing closed. Antennx more than two-thirds the length of the forewing. Colouration 



blackish abore. 



a, Upperside with a discal pale green band across both wings. 



a'. Band on forewing with its inner and outer edges irregular, the upper spot directed 

 somewhat inwards. 



479- S. TEUTA, Sylhet, Khasi Hills, Java, Borneo. 

 4S0. S. TEUTOiDES, South Andamans. 

 ^'. Band on forewing with both its edges regular, the upper spot in a straight line with 

 the rest of the band. 



481 S. RECTA, Sylhet, Upper Tenasserim. 

 i. Upperside, hindwing immaculate, no discal band. 



482 S. GUPTA, Upper Tenasserim. 



c. Upperside of hindwing with a broad purplish-blue band in male. Female evenly spotted 

 throughout. 

 a'. Underside of male ferruginous. Female with golden spots on upperside. 



483. S. DIRTEA, Bhutan, Assam, Cachar, Upper Tenasserim, Malayana. 

 ^', Underside of male rich indigo-green. Female with bluish-white spots on upperside, 



484. S. CYANiFARDUs, Assam, Cachar, Sylhet. 



478. Synxphssdra nais, Forster. 



Pafilio tiah, Forster, Novae Spec. Ins. Cent., vol. i, p. 73 (1771) ; Sytnphtedra nais, Moore, I.ep. Cey., 

 vol. i, p. 35 (iSSi) ; Papilio ihyelia, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. i, p. 142, n. 437(1793) ; id., Donovan's Ins. 

 of India, pi. xxxi, fig. 3 (1800) ; Argynnis thyelia, Godart, Enc. Meth., vol. i.x, p. 257, n. 2 (1819) ; Symphadra 

 thyelia, Doubleday, Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 295, n. i, pi. xlii, fig 6 (1850) ; id., Forsayeth, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc Lend., 1884, p. 384, pi, xiv, figs. 3, larva; ^a, pa/ta ; Syinpheedra alcandra, Hiibner, Zutrage 

 Ex. Schmett., figs. 1, 2 (1818). 



Habitat : Sikkim, throughout the plains of India except the north-west, Ceylon. 



Expanse : 2-3 to 2*9 inches. 



Description: "Male and female. Upperside fulvoits-red. Forewing with a broad 

 black disco-cellular spot, a contiguous discal spot, an oblique subapical streak, and a trans- 

 verse submarginal and marginal narrow lunular band, the two joined by streaks on the veins. 

 Hindwing with a large black medial costal spot, a submarginal row of small round spots, 

 and broad marginal band, the black colour slightly ascending the veins. Cilia alternated 

 with white. Underside brownish-ochrcous. Foreiving with the discal area bright ochreous, 

 two discoidal black ringlet-marks bordered between by white, a black contiguous discal spot, 

 an oblique short subapical white macular band bordered inwardly with dark brown, followed 

 by lower submarginal black lunules. Hindiving with transverse medial discal band, which is 

 sometimes broken or consists only of a costal and lower spots [or absent altogether] j 

 two small discoidal red-centred spots, and a submarginal row of small black spots." 



"Larva dark green, with ten jjairs of long green laterally-projecting very delicate 

 branched spines ; a dorsal row of dark blue-bordered red spots. Pupa green, thick, keeled along 

 the back, broadly triangular across the middle, a black-bordered pale band across the 

 triangular back, and some thoracic spots." {Moore, I. c.) Dr. Forsayeth describes the larva at 

 Mhow as feeding on the " ' Tendu' tree [Diospyros melanoxylon ?], a large tree somewhat 



