222 NYMPIIALID.E. NYMPHALIN^, TANAECIA. 



51S. Euthalia anosia, Moore. 



Adolias anosia, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Miis. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 187, n. 376 (1857) \ id-. 

 Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, vol. v, p. 65, n. 5, pi. v, figs, i, male and female (1859); Euthalia 

 anosia, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 117, n. 2, pi. xiv, fig. s^ female (1883). 



Habitat: Sikkim, Assam, Cachar, Chittagong, Mergui, Tenasserim, Province Wellesley, 

 Malacca. 



Expanse : ^,2-5 to 3-1 ; ? , 3-0 to 35 inches. 



Description: "Male: Upperside dark ash-green, with the anterior margin of hind- 

 wing broadly pinky-brown. Forewing with broad transverse band of asliy-vvhite irrorations ; 

 black markings within discoidal cell, and some below it, bordered with ashy-white irrorations. 

 Ilindioitig with ashy-white irrorations on lower part of the disc, bordering the discoidal 

 marks, and a spot above and below the cell, also bordering a submarginal row of black spots. 

 Underside creamy ash-colour, palest on the anterior half, which is covered with 

 rather indistinct darker short transverse strise ; markings within and about discoidal cell 

 black ; on the hindioing an indistinct submarginal row of black spots. FEMALE. Upper- 

 side paler ash-green than the male; exterior margins brownish ; markings disposed the same. 

 Foreioing with a curved row of five white spots from middle of costal margin ; the irrorated 

 band paler and more clearly defined ; an indistinct inward oblique row of black spots from 

 near apex to near middle of posterior margin. Hindwing with indistinct black curved band 

 from middle of anterior to middle of abdominal margin ; also an indistinct submarginal row 

 of black spots. Underside paler than in the male, marked as on upperside, with the 

 curved row of five spots bordered inwardly with dark brown ; the indistinct oblique row of 

 blackish spots from apex only to middle of the disc, the lower part being suffused with 

 dark brown ; exterior margin dark brown. Hindwing with indistinct inner band and sub- 

 marginal row of large dark brown spots. Forewing in both sexes much falcated." (A/oore, 

 1. c. in Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C.) 



JS. anosia is a very distinct and rare species. The deep emargination of the outer margin of 

 the forewing, the grey irroration of the upperside and the dark striation of the underside, at once 

 distinguish it from every other species of the genus. Mr. F. B. Collins Feilmann has obtained 

 it at low elevations in Sikkim in the spring, Mr. Shirwell took a female in the Jorehat district 

 in June, Mr, Wood-Mason obtained a pair in Cachar, a male at Irangmara in July and 

 a female on Nemotha in September, Mr. S. E. Peal has sent it from Sibsagar, Dr. Anderson 

 took a pair in the Mergui Archipelago in the cold weather, and it has been recorded from 

 Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula, 



Genus 79. -TANAECIA, Butler. (Plate XIX). 



Tanaecia, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 610 (with wood-cut of structure of palpus and hindwing) ; 

 id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 128 (1883). 



•'.S^jr^j nearly alike ; i):\Q palpi with a slender bristle-like terminal joint, varying some- 

 what in length in the different species ; the middle disco-cellnlar of foreioing feebly recurved ; 

 the fint branch of the subcostal nervure in hindiving emitted at some distance from the base, 

 the Jif<r^«(/ just beyond. Typical species Tanaecia pulasara." (^Butler, \. c.') 



" In general form and neuration this genus resembles Euthalia, differing chiefly in the 

 following characters: — the middle disco-cellular nerviile of the foreioing is only moderately 

 recurved ; they?/-j/ subcostal of the hindwing \% emitted at a greater distance from the base of the 

 subcostal nervure than in Euthalia, and the second subcostal has its origin a little beyond. The 

 palpi have a slender bristle-like terminal joint varying in different species." (ZJwAzw/', I. c.) 

 The transformations are unknown. 



Neither of the above writers, however, seem to have noticed the remarkable feature of this 

 genus, which distinguishes it from all the other genera in this subfamily except /Vi7//^c>^', and links 

 it to several of the genera of the Morphince, viz., the anastomosing of the first subcostal nervule 

 of the forewing with the costal nervure at some distance beyond the end of the cell ; the second 

 subcostal nervule also touches the first subcostal below and the third subcostal above before 



