NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALIN^. SYMPH^DRA. 189 



482. Symphsedra grupta, de n., n. sp. 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim. 

 Expanse : $, 3-15 inches. 



Description : Differs from the same sex of 5". tatta in its smaller size ; the upperside 

 has the ground-colour paler. Foreiving with the discal macular white band reduced to five 

 decreasing triangular spots, of which the largest is placed beneath the subcostal nervure, 

 the two subapical spots obsolete, and the submarginal dittused black spots very small. Hind- 

 !<-»«_§• with no trace whatever of the broad white band present in S. teuta, the submarginal 

 black dentated band reduced to a fine dentated line with the dift'used obsolescent whitish 

 spots above and below it in each interspace. Underside, /i7r£T£//«_o- with the same differences 

 as above. Hind-wing with a small white spot on the middle of the costa below the cosial 

 nervure, followed by five discal small indistinct blackish spots one in each interspace, with 

 a white linear mark in continuation from the middle of the submedian interspace to the 

 inner margin, and the dentate line of the upperside obsolescent, represented by an 

 obscure diff"used dentate mark on the middle of each interspace. 



There is a single specimen of this species in Major Marshall's collection taken by Captain 

 C. T. Bingham at Tanaoo Choung, Thoungyeen, in September. 



483. SymphsodLra dirtea, Fabricius. 



Papilio dirtea, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. i, p. 59, n. 184 (1793) ; Adolias dirtea. Gray, Lep. Ins, 

 Nepal, p. 12, pi. X, figs. I, female \ 2, >««/« (1846) ; id., Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, vol. v, 

 p. 84, n. 48 (1859) ; Lexias dirtea, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 400, n. 25 (i860) ; Symphiedra 

 dirtea, Butler. Proc. Zool. Soc Lond., 1868, p. 613, n, 3; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 112. n. i, 

 pl.xii, figs 7, male; ^, female (1883); Adolias boisduvalii, Boisduval, Sp. Gen., vol. i, pi. viii, fig. z, 

 male (1836). 



Habitat : Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Khasi Hills, Cachar, Upper Burma, Upper Tenas- 

 serim, Mergui, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Billiton, Banca, Java, Borneo. 



Expanse : $ , yo to 38 inches ; ? , 3"3 to 47 inches. 



Description : " Male. Upperside very dark chocolate-brown. Forewing with a 

 small whitish subapical spot placed beneath the fourth subcostal nervule [often absent], and a 

 greenish outer marginal fascia, which is almost obsolete at apex and gradually widens to posterior 

 angle [this band is very variable, in some specimens it is obsolete, in others very prominent] ; 

 the inner margin of this fascia is very waved and subdentate. Hindwing with a very broad 

 outer bluish marginal fascia, with violaceous reflections, occupying about half of wing [some- 

 what variable in width, in Indian specimens generally considerably narrower], and containing 

 a submarginal series of blackish spots placed between the nervules and a marginal row of 

 much larger subconical spots of the same colour placed upon and divided by the nervules ; 

 this bluish area is sinuated interiorly, and becomes shaded with greenish and violaceous 

 at and near anal angle ; apical portion of abdominal margin thickly clothed with long 

 pale ochraceous hairs. Underside very warm and dark ochraceous. 'Forewing with a 

 small and very pale bluish subapical spot situated beneath the bifurcation of the fourth and fifth 

 subcostal nervules [often with three' similar discal spots placed between lower discoidal and 

 third median nervules] ; a cluster of irregular pale spots in cell and a long and irregularly 

 curved one at the termination of the same, which is followed by two very indistinct spots 

 placed one on each side of the upper discoidal nervule ; two pale discal spots on each side 

 of the second median nervule, and one beneath the first median nervule ; inner margin and 

 area of the outer angle broadly suff'used with fuscous, the last with two bluish spots placed 

 one on each side of the first median nervule ; above these are a subobsolete and submarginal 

 series of pale spots placed between the nervules. Hindiving with two pale spots in cell, a 

 curved discal series of six or seven pale spots placed between the nervules, and a submarginal 

 series of small fuscous spots placed between the nervules, with their surrounding areas 



