l8S NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALIN^. SYMPH^DRA. 



In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, are numerous specimens of tliis species from Sylhet ; it 

 lias also been recorded* from the '* Barak river, on ascent to Manipur from Cachar, December," 

 and from Java and Borneo, the latter, however, may be the hellata of Druce. 



480. Symphadra teutiodes, Moore. 



J", teutoides, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1877, p. 586. 

 Habitat : South Andamans. 

 Expanse : ^ , 2-5 to 3-0 j ? , 3-25 to 360 inches. 



Description: " Nearly allied to 5". /^w/a;. Male differs in having the maculated band 

 more erect and the lower spots smaller ; the band on the hindiuing is also straighter, more 

 evenly bordered on the inner edge, and regularly sinuous on its outer edge. Female, on the 

 foreiving the band is continuous and less broken up into spots ; it is also broader at the costal 

 end ; the band on the hindiving, as in the male, is also more evenly edged within and 

 regularly sinuous without. Underside, both sexes are much paler, are suffused with lilac 

 exteriorly, and have no red in the discoidal marks." (^Moore, 1. c.) 



This is a very slightly differentiated local race of 5". teuta, and hardly worthy of distinct 

 specific rank. In the male the maculated band is not more erect, nor the lower spots 

 invariably smaller, nor are the differences given for the hindwing constant in a long series of 

 specimens. In the female the band certainly is more continuous and broader at its costal end ; 

 the band on the hindwing however is much the same as in.S. tenia. On the underside some of 

 the differences pointed out by Mr. Moore do exist, but they are all very slight characters indeed 

 on which to base a species, and the discoidal marks are sometimes as prominently red-centred 

 as in S. teuta. S. teutoides seems to be a fairly common species in the South Andaman Isles. 



481. Symplisedra recta, de n., n. sp. 



Habitat : Sylhet, Upper Tenasserim. 

 Expanse: (J, 30 to 3*3; ?, 3-2 to 3-8 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings black, the outer margins slightly paler. 

 Foreiving with a perfectly straight, evenly margined, discal pale green band, composed of seven 

 increasing spots, a small whitish spot beyond in the subcostal interspace, a submarginal obscure 

 macular diffused black band. Hindiving with a discal pale green macular band, widening 

 from the costa to the first median nervule, ending in a point above the anal angle, its edges 

 even ; a submarginal band composed of quadrate spots as in forewing, with a small crimson 

 spot at the anal angle. Underside, both zuings cinnamon-brown, the discal band as above 

 but defined with black, the submarginal band represented by a large diffused patch towards 

 the anal angle and some linear markings above it in the forewing ; in the hindwing by a 

 linear mark in each interspace. Foreiving with a crimson spot surrounded with black in the 

 middle of the cell placed against the subcostal nervure, a similar lunular line closing the cell. 

 //indtving with a small black spot in the cell, a double black line on the upper outer end of the 

 cell a crimson spot at the anal angle. Female. Upperside, both wings with the ground- 

 colour paler than in the male, the discal band broader, paler, almost white, the submarginal 

 black diffused macular band much more prominent than in the male. Forewing with two fine 

 streaks on the costal margin in continuation of the discal band, a second white spot beyond 

 above the bifurcation of the fourth and fifth subcostal nervules. Hindwing with the crimson 

 spot at the anal angle larger, duplex in one specimen. Underside as in the male, with 

 the differences of markings as given for the female. 



The straightness and evenness of the discal band of the forewing and the crimson spot 

 at the anal angle of the hindwing will at once distinguish .S. r^^/a from 5". /«</«. There are 

 two males without locality, and one female from Sylhet in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 and one female taken by Captain C. T. Bingham in March in the Thoungyeen Forests in 

 Upper Tenasserim in Major Marshall's collection. 



• Etithalia tenia, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist , fifth series, vol. xvi, p. 305, n. 44 (1885). 



