NYMPHALID/T:. NYMPIIALIN^E. SYMPH^DRA. 187 



resembling the ash. General colour a light grass-green ; a row of purple spots along middle of 

 back. Margin of body armed with long, horizontal, fleshy processes, covered with fine green 

 hairs of a non-initating character. Chrysalis green, angular, with dark and gold spots and lines" 



In Major Marshall's collection are two specimens of 3". nais from Sikkim, a somewhat doubt- 

 ful locality. It occurs in Oudh, plentifully in the Rajmahal hills, and has been taken at Barrack- 

 pore and in Calcutta. It occurs in Orissa and thence throughout the south of the peninsula to 

 Ceylon and up the west coast as far as Bo.nbay, but not apparently in the Punjab. It differs 

 not only conspicuously from the other species of the genus by its quite different colouration, 

 small size and short antennje, but also has a different distribution ; it apparently thrives best 

 in open and moderately dry country, while the other species of the genus live only in a moist 

 climate and in heavy forest. 



A species which apparently belongs to this genus was described by Guerin in Delessert's 

 Voyage dans I'lnde under the name of Argynnis emalca. The exact locality from whence 

 the type was obtained is unknown, and so far as I am aware no other specimen has ever 

 been obtained, and nothing further is known about it. The description is appended for 

 reference.* 



479. Symphsedra teuta, Doubleday, Hewitson, 



/}^(5//<« /f«/a, Doubleday, Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 2qi, n. 5, pi. xliv, fig. 2, male (1S50); 

 id., Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, vol. v, p. 81, n. 42 (1857). 



Habitat : N. India, Assam, Sylhet, Java, Borneo (Druce). 



Expanse : ^, 275 to 325 ; ? , 3-25 to 400 inches. 



Description : " Male, Upperside, blackish-brown, palest on exterior margins, with 

 a transverse band of pale greenish-yellow spots crossing the middle of botk zoings, the spots 

 being smallest and interrupted on the /t';t':<7/«^; also a single small spot near the apex, and 

 a minute dot of the same colour within the discoidal cell of the forewing.t a row of indistinct 

 triangular black spots near exterior margins ; and two or three indistinct pale spots from 

 anterior angle of huiihving. Underside, pale brown, suffused in patches with dusky brown ; 

 band and apical spot as above, pale green ; a [submaiginal] row of small black short longitudinal 

 spots from apex of forewing to anal angle [of hindwing] ; a rounded spot and a lunular black 

 mark, centred with crimson, within discoidal cell oiforrMHg, and in that of the /lindioingVLsmM 

 dot and two short black lines; base of costal margin of both wings tinged with crimson. 

 Female. Upperside paler, and the row of triangular black spots more distinct ; the marks 

 within the discoidal cell oi forewing also distinct but black. Underside, as in male." 

 (Moore^ I. c.) The discal series of spots are almost white in the female, the upper ones in the 

 forewing usually larger and lengthened out into streaks, with two additional very fine white 

 streaks on the costa above the uppermost spot of the discal series ; sometimes there are two 

 subapical spots. 



* Syniphcedra? emalea, Gu4rh\. Aigynnis cw^/4'fl!, Guerin, in Delessert's Voy. dans I'lnde, part ii, p. 

 72(18431 ; Sympha-dya ctnalea, Kirby, ^yn. Cat., p 259(1871). Habitat: Malay Coast. Expansk : 3 inches. 

 JJksckiption : '• Wings ratber rounded, apex of the forewing suDconcave. Above fulvous, the apex of the 

 forewing and tortuous lines, and tortuous lines and spots on the hindwing, black ; two costal spots, white. 

 Underside fu vous-grey, with a pearly gloss, a median common white band, macubir, straight externally, toothed 

 interually." 



"Nearly allied to Argyxnis thyelia., Vs!qx'\<:\\x'=.\_= Sympherdra nais\. Ucpersidb of a lively reddish 

 [fauve], a little more dull at 'the base. Foreiving with the apex [extr^mit(5] black, with two undulated 

 [ondfSesJ black bands parallel to the external edge, and less marked [marquees] near the inferior angle, 

 beyond in the middle a toothed and undulated band of black serving to define the more ob.scnre portion of the 

 base ; in the middle of the discoidal cell a small transverse brown band with the middle redtiish IlinJiving, 

 with three flexuous blackish lines at the external edge, one fiexnous line in the middle in continu.ition of that 

 on the forewing, and between this line and the external ones, a series of six black dots of which the two anterior, 

 and that by the anal angle are a little the larger : two square [carr^e] white marks at the costa [cOteJ, the 

 one at the middle the other near the anterior extremity. Undekside, of a yellowish cindery grey, with violet 

 and pearly reflections ; the nervures reddish ; a macular white band bordered with blackish extends obliquely 

 across the middle, right from the external " cote" to the internal " cote," strongly dented especial y on the 

 forewing and " tres-cUrgic" at the "cute" of the forewing ; beyond, on the hindwing, a series of six little 

 b>ack dots corresponding to those on the upperside. The body is of a yellowish blown ; the atiuniu black, with 

 the anterior "cote" reddish." (Ciieiin, 1. c.) 



t 1 have uot seen a specimen with the discoidal spot mentioned by Mr. Moore. 



