NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALIN^. EUTHALIA 213 



the usual black marks in the cell and below it in both wings. Uiulerside bright ochreous 

 yellow, the outer margins narrowly black, the discoidal marks very clear and sharply 

 defined, two suffused black discal lines, the outer one on the forenving widening out into 

 two spots, the lower the larp'er, towards the anal angle, the inner with a white spot in 

 the second median interspace semi-hyaline and often visible on the upperside through 

 transparency. The female is very variable in the width of the pale discal band on the 

 forewing, and the extent of the semi-hyaline whitish patches, in some specimens they are 

 hardly visible, in others the entire band as far as the first median nervule consists of 

 elongate whitish patches divided by the veins and crossed by a series of diffused brownish 

 lunules. The form figured and described by Moore occurs in Sylhet and Cachar, and even 

 there the space between the discal bands on the forewing is not usually as white as described ; 

 the Sikkim form, which appears to be fairly constant, is dusky brown on the upperside, with a 

 discal band of grey powdering across both wings, on which is placed a black zig-zag line 

 corresponding to the outer discal band on the underside of the male, the inner discal band of 

 the male below represented in the female by a series of highly irregularly-placed pale spots, 

 which are while and very prominent on the underside, and variable in number. 



Mr. Butler adds the following to E. kesava : — " Sub-species $ . Discal area fuscous, with 

 a tendency to purple (not to greenish), with a lunule and spot beyond the termination 

 of the cell of the forewing. $ , East Indies." 



£. kesava is a common species at low elevations in Sikkim throughout the year, and 

 occurs eastwards as far as Upper Assam, also in Sylhet and Cachar. 



508. Eutlialia diSCispilOta, Moore. 

 Addias discispiloia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 831. 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim, Moolai 3,000 to 6,000 feet. 



Expanse : 2'2 inches (2*4 on plate). 



Description : " Allied to E. kesava. Female, smaller in size. Upperside, with the 

 borders uniformly greyish brown ; the transverse discal band with less sinuous dusky outer 

 border ; the whitish spot between the lower subcostal branches, and the spot between the upper 

 median branches prominent. UNDERSIDE, paler ; markings similar, with less blue along abdo* 

 minal border." {Moore, 1. c ) 



In Major Marshall's collection are two specimens from Upper Tenasserim, a worn male 

 taken by Captain C. T. Bingham in the Donat range in December, and a female from the 

 Thoungyeen forests in September, which, I think, are referable to this species. The male 

 appears to have the grey-powdered discal bands of the upperside less distinct, more diffused, 

 and of a greenish colour ; the underside is yellowish brown, tinged with greenish basally, the 

 two discal bands broader and more diffused. The female, which measures 2'8 inches in 

 expanse, is not distinguishable in its markings from some examples of that sex of E. kesava. 

 As pointed out under E. keiava, the female is very variable. 



In the next three species the males are almost uniform in the colouration of the upperside' 

 the discal pale band being scarcely paler than the rest of the wing, but distinctly divided 

 at the costa by a diffused darker patch ; the females have a pale discal band on both wings, 

 but much whiter than in the preceding species, and on the forewing distinctly divided at the 

 costa by a dark patch ; the underside in these and in all the following species is brown, not 

 ochreous, as in the preceding species. 



All three species are unknown to me, except from descriptions and figures, and it is 

 doubtful whether any of them really occur within Indian limits, 



509. Euthalia alpheda, Godart. 



Nynnfihalis alpheda, Godart, Enc Mdth., vol. ix, p. 384, n. 116 (1823) ; ^rtV//(i.f rt:///i^rf,i, Moore, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, vol. v, p. 66, n. 6, pi. iii, fig. 4, male awA female (1859); idem, id., Proc. Zool, 

 Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 765; id., Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 604, n. 29. 



Habitat : Bengal (^Godart ^■oA. Moore) ; North India (^«//^y) ; Sikkim {^Kirby), Java. 

 Expanse: (J, 27; ?, 3-3 inches. 



