268 NYMPHALID.Ii. NYMPIIALIN^. DOLESCIIALLIA. 



Ceylon, the Andaman and Nicobar Isles, Assam, Burma, the Malay Peninsula and Islands and in 

 Australia. The genus is closely allied to Kallima, but has the apex of the forewing truncate 

 (in the typical species) instead of acute, and thediscoidal cell of both wings open, in Kallima 

 they are closed. They are fulvous on the upperside, the apex of the forewing broadly 

 black and including a band and spot of the ground-colour in some species, the underside is 

 of various dark shades of green and brown, with a discal line as is Kallima, which simulates 

 the mid-rib of a leaf, to which the whole underside has some resemblance, often with some 

 silvery and brown basal marks, and a discal series of very obscure ocelli. 



Much confusion has arisen regarding the specific determination of several species of the 

 genus, which Mr. Distant has lately cleared up. * D. praiipa has been erroneously recorded 

 by several writers from Upper Tenasserim and the Andaman Isles, it appears to be confined 

 to the Malay Peninsula and Java ; in the same way Z). bisaltide has been recorded from India, 

 Ceylon, &c , it appears, according to Mr. Distant, to occur in Java and possibly Sumatra, 

 Cramer giving Surinam as its habitat, a probable clerical error for the latter island. The 

 Indian, Ceylon, Andaman and Nicobar species, which occurs also in Java, Borneo and the 

 Philippines, is D, polibete, Cramer, 



563. DoleSChallia P0liT:©te, Cramer. (Plate XXIII, Fig. 103 ^). 



Pdpilio poUbetc, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. iii, pi. ccx.xxiv, figs. D, E {nee pi. ccxxxv, figs. C, D) 1779 ; Doles- 

 challia polibete. Distant, Ent. Month. Mag., vol. xxii, p. 41 (1885) ; A'.i///wa fe^/Z/V/t' (/<j:r/), Horsfield and 

 Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 209, n. 427 (1857; ; Doleschallia bisaltide, Moore {nee Cramer), Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 767 ; idem, id., Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 38, pi. xix, figs, i, la, imago; ib, lafva and ^iipa 

 (i88i) ; Doleschallia pratipa, Moore {ncc Felder), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 584; idem, id., 1. c, 1878, 

 p. 828. 



Habitat: N.-E. India, Upper Tenasserim, Ceylon, Andaman and Nicobar Isles, Java, 

 Borneo, Philippines. 



Expanse : 27 to 3-3 inches. 



Description : " Male. Upperside deep fulvous. Foreiving with a very oblique black 

 band from middle of costa joining a marginal band which expands broadly at the apex,t 

 three minute white spots obliquely before the apical angle [often absent]. Hmdunng dusky 

 fulvous on anterior margin, with a more or less distinct small black upper and lower discal 

 spot and two wavy marginal lines. Underside dark fulvous-brown or dark olive-brown, 

 obliquely fasciated with purple. Foreiving with two more or less prominent black-bordered 

 white discoidal streaks and a lower spot, a red-lined disco-cellular mark, a transverse discal 

 sinuous black line, a submarginal series of white spots, the two lower spots ringed with purple, 

 the upper terminating in a white costal streak, a marginal dark brown lunular line. Hindzvivg 

 with a black-bordered white discoidal spot and another spot above the cell, a transverse 

 discal straight black line, a distinct upper and lower discal ocellus, marginal black line in- 

 distinct, and generally terminating in a blue caudal streak, abdominal margin black speckled. 

 Female, Upperside slightly paler on forewing. Underside duller fulvous-brown or 

 olive-brown, basal white marks obsolete, other markings as in male, but less distinct." 



"Larva long, somewhat slender, purple-black, with a dorsal and lateral series of short 

 delicate branched blue spines ; a medial lateral row of white spots. Feeds on Acanthads. 

 Pupa slender, head produced into two points, constricted behind the thorax ; pale reddish- 

 purple, numerously dotted with black." (Moore, I. c. in Lep. Cey.) 



The markings of the underside are very variable, the forewing in the male has sometimes 

 a prominent silvery quadrate spot in the middle of the cell, an elongated sinuous one at its 

 end, and a third below the base of the first median nervule, in the hindwing there is a large 

 spot at the outer end of the cell, with a small one in its middle, and a large round spot near 



* Ent. Month. Mag., vol. xxii, p. 41 (1885). 



\ The markings on this portion of the wing would, perhaps, be best described as the apex broadly black 

 enclosing a broad oblique band of the ground-colour which extends along the costa to the base of the wing, 

 usually with a separate rounded spot beyond the band above the third median nervule, which however sometimes 

 coalesces with the band. 



