NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALIN.^. PROTHOE. 29S 



nervuledoes from the end of the cell. The neuration of this group ^^ Offers from that of 

 P. Caledonia in the first subcostal nervule of the forew.ng anastomos.ng w.th the costal 

 nervure a little beyond the end of the cell, in /'. caledoma U is entirely free. I" °"Jy «"« 

 other genus of the /Vj«.M''//W r 7;.«'^^'^'<^>' ^^^es this anastomos.ng occur. The direction of 

 the lower disco-cellular nervule of tlie forewing in P. Caledonia differs considerably from that of 

 P. franckii, being evenly and regularly curved, and closing the discoidal cell much less obliquely- 



Key to tho Indian species of Protlioe. 



A. Upperside, forewing crossed by a broad even straight well-defined blue band, the apical third of the 

 wing black, tail long. 



590. P. ANGELICA, Upper Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo. 



B. Upperside, forewing crossed by a much broader irregular blue band, almost reaching the outer margin, 

 tail short. 



591. P. REGALis, Manipur. 



590. Protlxoe angelica, Butler. (Frontispifxe, Fig. 120 ,J). 



p. angelica, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat Hist., fifth series, vol. xvi, pp. 53. 54 (1885) ; P. franckii, 

 Wallace (^part), Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1869, p. 80, n. i ; id., Moore, Proc. Zool, Soc. Loud., 1878, p. 832. 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim, Perak, Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo. 

 Expanse : 3-25 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both imugs dark indigo-blue, thickly irrorated with 

 lighter blue scales at the base. Foreiving with a black band at the end of the cell not quite 

 leaching the median nervure, beyond which is a broad discal blue band of equal width 

 througliout, the edges straight and even, occupying nearly the middle third of the costa and 

 extending to the anal angle, and bearing some white indistinct streaks at its upper end and some 

 indistinct white irrorations in the middle, a subapical series of five rounded purplish-white 

 spots, of which the lowest in the lower discoidal interspace and the next but one above it are 

 very small ; the apical area beyond the blue band fuscous. Himhoing with two purplish-white 

 elongated spots on the margin divided by the upper subcostal nervule. Underside, 

 both juiiigs pale buff with fuscous markings. Forewing with the inner margin broadly, 

 the middle of the outer margin narrowly, and a wedge-shaped patch from the costa fuscous ; 

 a looped spot at the base of the cell, two annular spots one above the other in the 

 middle, and a W-sliaped one near its end continued to the costa, the disco-cellulars 

 enclosed by a double line, some spots outside the cell, on the disc and margin, all 

 fuscous, Hindiving \\i\.\\ a reniform spot in the middle of the cell, another at its end and 

 continued to the first subcostal nervule, some irregular patches from the costa extending 

 into the disc, and some narrow marks in the median interspaces, and from the median nervure 

 to the abdominal margin, all fuscous ; a submarginal series of large conical-shaped spots 

 placed between the nervules thickly irrorated with dark powdery bronzy-green, the anterior ones 

 inwardly margined with orange, a black lunular spot at the anal angle in the submedian 

 interspace marked inwardly with orange and outwardly with pale blue, a large pale blue 

 quadrate spot on the margin in the first median interspace, beyond which the tail and the 

 margin are decreasingly black, a small black and orange triangular spot on the margin in the 

 internal interspace. This description is taken from a single male from Perak in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, the only specimen of this group I have seen, and from it the figure showing 

 both sides is taken. It is named P. franckd on the plate, at the time when the plate was letter- 

 ed P. angelica and two other new and allied species had not been discriminated, I have 

 added in a foot-note* the points of difference between it and the Javan P. franckii as given 

 by Mr. Butler. Mr, Moore records it from Meetan, Upper Tenasserim, 3,000 feet, April. 



* " Piothoe angelica, Butler " Oblicjue belt of forewing shining azure or greenish, with a series of irregular 

 white dashes to represent the medial belt ; apical area of hindwing purplish black ; prevalent colouring on exter- 

 nal area of hindwing below pale green. 



"/". angelica is the brightest of all, the female being slightly less so than the male ; the blue belt is some- 

 times a little wider than in P. franckii, and its outer edge is much less zigjag ; it has white dashes on the belt in 

 bulh sexes ; the markings below aie very similar, but the grouud-colour is noticeably different," [flintier, 1. g.) 



