igS NYMPHALID/E. NYMPIIALIN^. EUTHALIA. 



blue-black. H'tud-wiug^ with transverse row of [five or] six white spots from costal margin to 

 near the posterior angle ; indistinct discoidal markings [and a submarginal series of small 

 black spots placed between the nervules]. Cilia [allernately] white." {Moore, 1. c. )• The male 

 (of which I have seen a single specimen only) differs from the female in the submarginal 

 small black spots on the underside of the hindwing being replaced by a diffused line darker 

 than the ground-colour. 



E, nara is decidedly a rare species. It differs from E. iva in the shape of the spots in 

 the discal band of the forewing, and in the absence of the two small spots below the first 

 median nervule on the upperside of the forewing, and from E. patala in its much deeper tone 

 of colouration, and in having five or six irregular pale bluish-white spots across the disc of the 

 hindwing on the underside. 



E. nara is probably the species referred to by Moore in the Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1865, p. 767, under the name ol A, coufiuius, Westwood, the letter being a Chinese insect, and 

 is said to be " Closely allied to A. epiona [-E. patala'], but larger ; the lower spot on hind- 

 wing lunulate and reversely curved."* They are quite distinct species. 



The next species, E, anyte, differs much in outline from the other species of this group, 

 and closely resembles in this respect, the males of E. gartida and its allies, the apex of the fore- 

 wing and anal angle of hindwing being sharply pointed ; the body too is more robust, but the 

 discoidal cell of the forewing is closed ; the female is unknown. On the upperside the pale 

 discal band is obsolete, but the pale spots near the costa of the hindwing are almost always 

 prominent. 



494- Euthalia anyte, riewitson. 



Adolias anyte, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. iii, Adolias, pi. ii, fig 5 (1S62) ; id,, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 186S, p. 603, n. 23. 



Habitat : Sikkim, Nepal. 



Expanse : 2'8 to 3*0 inches. 



Description : " Male. Upperside, both wings green-brown, crossed beyond the middle 

 by two bands of darker brown. Foreioiitg with a brown line and a spot of rufous-brown 

 bordered on both sides with black within the cell ; a small spot below the last, and a spot 

 just beyond the end of the cell also bordered on both sides with black ; the space between 

 the two transverse bands is of a paler tint than the rest of the wing, marked with two indis- 

 tinct round spots. Hindzuing with a white [ochreous] spot on the costal margin beyond its 

 middle. Underside as above, except that it is much paler ; that the hindzuing has the 

 oblong and transverse black marks near the base common to the species of this group, and 

 that it is crossed in the place of the first transverse band by a band (broken in the middle) 

 of six obscure white spots. " {flezuitson, 1. c.) 



This is a rare species, of which I have only seen males : there is one Sikkim specimen in the 

 collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, one in Major Marshall's collection, and four from 

 Sikkim and one from Nepal in Colonel Lang's. On the underside it is marked almost exactly 

 as in E. sahadeva, except that the discal series of pale spots is narrower on both wings and 

 the white spot near apex of forewing is absent, but the lower half of the disc of the forewing 

 is suffused with black as in E, sahadeva, and it lacks the small black linear marks in the middle 

 of the submarginal band of the hindwing present in that species. E. anyte is much smaller than 

 E. sahadeva, the apex of the forewing more pointed, the outer margin more emarginate, the 

 hindwing much shorter, the anal angle more acute. Mr. Butler says that it " seems to be most 

 nearly allied to E, ganida." It is however I think most nearly allied to E, sahadeva, differ- 

 ing from that species chiefly in size and shape, and in the absence of the white spots at the apex 

 of the forewing. 



In Major Marshall's collection is a single male of this species from Sikkim which differs 

 considerably from the other examples I have seen. The outer margin of the forewing is but very 



• Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 602, n. is. 



