NYMPIIALIDyE, NYMPH ALIN/E. DOLESCHALLIA. 2O7 



562. Sallima tnyvettii, de N., n. sp. 



Habitat : Buxa, Bhutan, 



Expanse : $ , 405 inches. 



Description. Male. Larger than any species of the group to which it belongs known 

 to me, the upperside of a darker colour also, being deep indigo-blue glossed with deep obscure 

 green at the base. Foreivitig with a very broad bluish-white discal band not reaching 

 the outer margin, its inner edge somewhat even, its outer edge irregular, extending broadly on 

 to the costa, its outer edge at the costal end being distinctly less than half the length of the 

 wing from the base, the band has its direction very straight, not curved towards the base of the 

 wing at its costal end as in the other species of this group known to me. The usual opaque 

 white spot at the bifurcation of the fourth and fifth subcostal nervules, a large oval discal 

 hyaline spot in the first median interspace, none in the interspace above ; the disco-cellular 

 nervules defined with a line of the ground-colour, but with no dark linear markings beyond 

 and below it as in all the other species. Hiiukoing with the usual submarginal irregular line 

 extending on to the forewing as far as the second median nervule. The pale ochreous 

 abdominal margin is thickly clothed with hairs of the same colour, the cell and a bro.id portion 

 of the wing below it towards the base of the tail is even more densely covered with long hairs, 

 but of a dark brown colour, this setose clothing being very much more dense and conspicuous 

 than in any species of the genus known to me. Underside variable. 



Described from two male specimens obtained (one with snipe shot) by Mr. A. V. Knyvett 

 in the forest beyond Buxa, Bhutan, in August. 



Genus 85.-D0LBS0HALLIA, Felder. (Plate XXIII). 



Doleschallia., Felder, Neues I.ep., p. 14, n. 29 (1861) ; id., Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 38 (1881) ; id.. 

 Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 87 (18S3) ; Kallinia (part), Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 324 (1850). 



" Forewing, subtriangular, costal margin arched from base [where it is slightly excavated] 

 and convex, apex more or less truncated, outer margin sinuated, concave beneath apex, and con- 

 vex towards posterior angle, iitner margin more or less concave ; first and second subcostal ner- 

 vules emitted somewhat close together near end of cell, third emitted beyond cell and extend- 

 ing to apex, fourth and fifth bifurcating at about one-third from apex ; upper disco-cellular 

 nervule short and outwardly angled, {middle disco-cellular about three times as long, 

 inwardly oblique], lower disco-cellular aborted, leaving the discoidal cell widely open ; 

 median nervules widely separated, the third prominently rounded at base, submedian nervurt 

 nearly straight. HlNOWlNG, elongate and subtriangular, \.\iz costal ^x^A outer margins convex, 

 anal angle produced into a narrow caudate elongation, which is traversed by the submedian 

 uervure, abdominal margins convex and contiguous near base, and from thence becoming 

 concavely divergent to anal angle ; costal nervure arched and extending to apex, prczcostal 

 nervure obliquely rounded and curved outwardly towards apex ; diicoidal [.? subcostal] 

 no-vules well-separated at their origin, discoidal cell with the apex quite unclosed, third median 

 nervule arched and rounded at a short distance from base. Body, short, robust ; palpi 

 large and porrect, raised above the upper margin of the head, gradually narrowed to an obtuse 

 point at apices, flattened beneath and covered with adpressed hairs, and clothed above 

 (excluding apices) with long semi-erect and well-separated hairs." [Antennce less than half 

 the length of the forewing, with a distinct well-developed club, ending in a short point]. 

 (Distant, I. c.) 



Larva long and slender, head rather larger than the following segment, the body 

 gradually increasing in size from the second to about the sixth segment, cylindrical, with 

 dorsal and lateral series of delicately branched spines. Pupa smooth, head ending in two 

 sharp points, thorax humped on the back, constricted beyond. 



About fourteen species are included in this genus, but as pointed out by Mr. Distant, 

 two of them inhabiting Western Africa and Madagascar are probably not congeneric, as they 

 have the apex of the forewing acute instead of truncate. The rest occur in North- East India, 



