igo NYMPIIALID/E. NYMPHALIN^. SYMPII^DRA. 



somewhat pale. Body and legs more or less concolourous with wings'; antenncB black, their 

 apices warm ochraceous. Female. Upperside chocolate-brown, with the cilia alternately 

 concolourous and pale greyish, and with the following yellowish spots '.—foreiving with three 

 for four] spots in cell, two at its termination, followed by two placed one on each side of the upper 

 discoidal nervule ; an oblique discal series of seven spots placed between the nervules, two 

 beneath cell, situated one on each side of second median nervule, a cluster of five irregular 

 spots near base and between first median nervule and submedian nervure, and an outer 

 submarginal series, placed between the nervules, increasing in size towards outer angle ; a 

 small yellowish streak on inner margin near its apex. Ilind-mng with the following yellowish 

 spots:— three beneath costal nervure, three between first and second subcostal nervules, 

 four between lower subcostal and discoidal nervules, three in cell (the first being only a small 

 basal streak), three beyond cell before the third median nervule, two beneath cell placed one 

 on each side of second median nervule, and two on basal half of abdominal margin ; and 

 three large spots — denoted by pale bluish margins with anterior and posterior yellowish spots — 

 near anal angle divided by the second and first median nervules. Underside, forewing 

 greenish ochraceous, darker and somewhat bluish at area of median nervules, marked generally 

 as above, but spots larger and pale bluish grey, those in and at termination of cell fused, and 

 the cluster of spots beneath base of cell obsolete. Hindiving pale greenish, the basal half 

 more or less suffused with ochraceous ; spots as above, but much paler. Body above chocolate- 

 brown, with the following yellowish spots : — six thoracic (two anterior, two central, and two 

 posterior), and four at base of abdomen ; a narrow lateral streak on each central side of thorax, 

 and a small spot at extreme base of wings ; body beneath and legs more or less concolourous 

 with wings." 



" In Province Wellesley old fallen fruit was an attraction to this species, and sliced pine- 

 apple placed at the proper season in a road where these butterflies frequented was generally 

 sure to be visited by a good supply of both males and females." (Distant, 1. c.) 



This widely distributed species is very common in Upper Assam (S, E, Peal), less so to 

 the westward. Captain Bingham has taken both sexes in Upper Tenasserim in the Thoungyeen 

 Valley and Meplay Valley in January, in the Donat i-ange in December, and in the Thoun- 

 gyeen Forests in March, and Dr. Anderson obtained it in the Mergui Archipelago during the cold 

 weather. In some male specimens on the upperside of the forewing are six ochreous spots in 

 the cell placed in pairs, and a less prominent series placed between the nervules just beyond 

 the cell. 



4S4. Symphsodra cyanipardus, Butler. (Plate xxi, fig. 95 ^ ?). 



.S. cyanipardits, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 613, n. 4 ; Adolias dlrtea, Doubleday, Hewitson, 

 (nee Fabricius), Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, pi. xliv, fig. i, female (1850). 



Habitat : Assam, Khasi Hills, Sylhet, Cachar, Borneo. 

 Expanse : <? , 4- 3 to 4-8 ; $ , S "3 to 5 '5 inches. 



Description : " Male. Upperside, most like S. dhtca, larger, but the basal dots of the 

 foreioing greenish-white not yellow-golden, and the marginal band subobsolete, diffused, with 

 two distinct subapical dots snow-white. Hindwing with the violaceous-green band inwardly 

 regularly dentate, the veins not at all tipped with ashy. ^Underside with all the spots most 

 distinctly greenish-white, the ground-colour olivaceous-green not fulvous-ferruginous, the 

 submarginal dots of the Jiindiving obscure scarcely distinguishable." {Butler, 1. c.) Female. 

 Upperside with the ground-colour darker than in S. dirica, the markings similar but white, 

 tinged more or less with violet-blue instead of yellowish-golden, the submarginal series of 

 large round black spots on the hindwing widely surrounded with bluish towards the anal angle, 

 purplish towards the apex, with an irregular whitish spot given off both above and below from 

 each black spot. Underside, similarly marked to i". dirted, the disc and inner margin of the 

 forewing much darker. 



Mr, Butler (1. c.) describes a local race of this species from Borneo as follows : — " Antenna 

 in both sexes lipped with fulvous j the female on the upperside a little more greenish." 



