294 NYMPIIALID.E. NYMPH ALINyE. rROTHOE. 



tliat the tips are not appliod close together, but are slightly incurved, basal joint not furnished 

 with long hairs, extremity of the second joint hairy on the side applied to the face, terminal 

 joint small and conical. Thorax, small, woolly, tippets very small, metathorax slightly 

 hairy. Abdomen, small. Forewing, large, triangular; <ri)j/rt!, slightly rounded ; outer 

 margin three-fourths of the length of the costa, nearly straight, very slightly scolloped ; inney 

 t/iargin the same length as the outer margin, nearly straight ; costal nervwe strong, extending 

 to half the length of the costa, ^«r<)?V/rt/f^// extending to the length of two-fifths of the base 

 of the wing, subcostal nervure slender, with its first branch arising at about one-third of the 

 length of the wing, second branch arising a little beyond, and extending to about four-fifths of 

 the length of the costa, beyond this second branch the subcostal nervure is obliquely deflexed 

 for a short distance (to the branching off of the disco-cellular nervule), the third and fourth 

 branches arise almost close together near the middle of the nervure, the third running in a bent 

 manner to the tip of the wing, and the fourth also bent, running into the outer margin ; upper 

 disco-cellular neirule very short and oblique, w/^/./Zt' disco-cellular short and transverse ; lower 

 disco-cellular curved in an oblique direction outwards, joined to the third median nervule at 

 sorre little distance beyond its origin, this nervule is but little curved at its base, subniedian 

 novure scarcely curved. Hindwing, somewhat oval, the space between the extremities of 

 the second and third median nervules produced into a short, broad, outwardly curved tail ; 

 costal 7nargin curved, outer margin nearly straight from the outer angle to the tail, from the 

 tail to the anal angle it has two rather deep scallops ; prcecostal iiervure reduced to a short, 

 straight, transverse spur arising near the base of the subcostal nervure, and extending to the 

 costal margin, subcostal nervure branched at a short distance (not more than one-seventh of an 

 inch) from its base ; upper disco-cellular ncvule forming the base of the discoidal nervule, and 

 branching from the subcostal nervure at a still shorter distance, lower disco-cellular wanting, 

 so that the discoidal cell, which is long and narrow, is open ; median nervure branched consi- 

 derably below the branching off of the discoidal nervule, its second and third branches extending 

 to either side of the short tail. Forelegs, of the jnale very short and pectoral, thickly 

 clothed to the tip with short hairs, the tibia shorter than the femur, tarsus fully as long 

 as the tibia, cylindrical, simple, exarticulate, and destitute of claws ; of the female 

 short, scaly, tibia about two-thirds of the length of the femur, tarsus as long as the tibia, 

 internally dilated at the extremity, where it is obliquely truncate, with slight indications of 

 the joints- Middle and hindlEgs, moderately long, and rather thickly clothed with scales, 

 the tarsus being nearly as thick as the tibia, femur a little curved, thickest at the base, tibia 

 as long as the femur, straight, furnished on the underside with two rows of short spines, 

 tarsus of the same length as the tibia, rather thickly beset with short spines, especially on the 

 underside, where they form several distinct rows, ^/(Ztaj- small, slender, sickle-shaped, /(z;-^«j'c/«'a 

 with the outer division as long as the claws, slender, rather pointed and setose, inner 

 division shorter and more obtuse, pulvillus small, broadly heart-shaped." 



"The beautiful insect [/'. franckii] upon which this genus is founded is well distinguished, 

 not only by the peculiar character of its colours, but by its short palpi closely applied to the 

 face, the slender club to its antenna;, and the great and nearly equal length of the third and 

 fourth branches of the subcostal nervure of the forewing, which run close together for a 

 considerable distance, and then widen, seeming to take the place of the fourth branch and 

 terminal division of the subcostal nervure, as arranged in Cyrestis, &c." ( IVestiuood, I. c.) 

 The genus at present contains about nine species, which occur from Assam through Upper 

 Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula and Islands as far east as New Ireland. The two Indian 

 species are dark indigo-blue or olive-green above, with a broad paler blue band across the 

 forewing on the upperside, which in one species almost reaches the outer margin, and with 

 some white apical spots, the hindwing unmarked, except by two or three white spots at the 

 apex; underside pale-buff or whitey-brown, marked wiih numerous fuscous spots and streaks, 

 the outer margin of the hindwing bears a series of very large conical-shaped spots between 

 the veins, of a dark powdery bronzy-green colour. The length of the fourth and fifth subcostal 

 nervules is very unusual, being about equal to half the length of the forewing, and they 

 arise at about the same distance from the origin of the third subcostal nervule as that 



