240 NVMrilALID/E. NYMPIIALIN/'E. SYMBRENTHIA. 



b. Upperside, hiiidwiiig with a fulvous spot before the middle, and two spots on the abdominal 

 margin. 



534. S. LiL^A, East India. 



B. Underside tesselated with black, with a submarginal series of conical blue or green spots. 



a. Underside pate yellow, the apical streak of the forewing and the discoidal and discal bands of 

 both wings of the upperside, white on the underside. 



<»'. The bands and apical streak in the male on the upperside dark fulvous Male with the 

 apical patch small, not reaching the costa, no spot beyond ; female with the bands 

 uniform paler fulvous. 



535. S. HVPSEi IS, Kumaon, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Naga Hills, 



Cachar. 



536. S. COTANDA, Sikkim. 



b . The bands and apical streak in the male on the upperside pale fulvous. Male with the 

 apical patch large, reaching the costa, with narrow spots beyond ; female marked 

 like the male. 



a", Discoidal streak on the underside narrow, ill-defined, marked with ochreous, 

 lunules green. 



537. S. NiPHANDA, Sikkim. 



b'. Discoidal streak on the underside broad, clearly and sharply defined, unmarked 

 with ochreous, lunules cerulean blue. 



538. S. SILANA, Sikkim, 

 i. Underside dark yellow throughout. 



a'. The apical streak in the male small, not reaching the costa, no spot beyond. 



a-. Submarginal series of five spots on underside of hindwing with metallic green 

 centres, also similar marginal lunules. 



539. S. ASTHALA, Kashmir, Simla, Masuri, Kumaon. 



b^. Metallic green markings on underside of hindwing reduced to a single lunule 

 (the third from the anal angle). 



540. S. BRABIRA, North India. 



i'. The apical streak in the male large, reaching the costa, lunules blue, a spot beyond. 



541. S. HVSLDRA, Kashmir, Simla, Kulu, Kumaon. 



532. Symlareatliia hippoclus, Cramer. 



Papilio hif>podus, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. iii, p. 46, pi. ccxx, figs. C, D, male [\^^<))•, Symbrenthia 

 A///I7C/2/J, de Nice'ville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. li, pt. 2, p. 57 (1S82) ; id., Uoherty, Journ., A. S. B., vo'. Iv, 

 pt. 2, p. 122, n. 72 (t886); Vanessa hyppocla, Godart, Enc. Meth., vol. ix, p. 298, n. 5 (1819) ; Suppl., 

 p. 818 (1S23); Laogona hyppocla, Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. i, p. 191, n. i (1848); id., Horsfield 

 and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, p. 153, n. 315 (iZsy); Hvpaiiartia hippocla, aiihnsT, Samml. Ex. 

 Schmett. (1816-1824) ; Laogona hippocla, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865. p. 762 ; Papilio Iticina, Cramer, 

 Pap. Ex., vol. iv., pi cccxxx, figs. E, F, yiv«a/e (1780); Symbrenthia daruka,M.oQr^,Vro<:..ZoQi\. Soc. Lond., 



1874, p. 570, pi. Ixvi, fig. ID. 



Habitat : Himalayas, Assam, Burma, Eastern Ghats, Java, Amboyna, China 

 {Cramer and Godarf), 



Expanse: i"8 to 2 '3 inches. 



Dkscription : Male. Upperside, both ivhtgs black with pale fulvous markings. 

 Forming with a broad discoidal streak, its upper edge indented before and at the end of 

 the cell, its lower edge irregular, extending beyond and below the cell ; a subapical oblique 

 streak, often divided into two portions, the lower the smaller, sometimes coalescing with the 

 discoidal streak, with a small spot beyond ; a broad oblique discal band from the second 

 median interspace to the inner margin. Hindiuing with the discal band in continuation 

 of that on the forewing, suddenly widening out at the abdominal fold, a broad patch on the 

 costa between the termination of the discal band and the base of the wing, a submarginal 

 broad band gradually attenuating to the outer angle, a fine marginal more or less interrupted 

 line. Underside, both zvings pale fulvous, marked with dark ferruginous short streaks 

 and spots almost throughout, which assume the form of a somewhat conspicuous discal 

 band, with a small violet spot placed outwardly against it in the second median interspace, 

 and another within it in the submedian interspace of the forewing. Hindwing more or 

 less irrorated with pale violet on the abdominal margin and towards the anal angle, some 

 bluish metallic submarginal lunules from the discoidal nervule to the anal angle, most distinct 

 in the second median interspace. Fe.male larger, all the markings larger and paler, as is 



