292 



NYMPHALID.E. 



23. Adol. ? Derbia. 



Ailolias ? Derma Kollar in Hugel's Reise durch Kaschmir, 

 p. 436. 

 Himalaya, Mussooree. 



24. ADOL. ? MONINA. 



Papilio Monina Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 127. 

 n. 390. ; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 383. (Nymphalis > 

 Mon.) 

 East India. 



25. 



Adol. Sinope Boisduval MS. 

 Java, India, 



B. M. 



Obs. Aconthea Alakara Horsf. appears to us to belong to the genus 

 Limenitis (see ante, p. 276.). It is closely allied to the following, which 

 must be added to that genus. 



Limenitis Martha. 



Papilio Martha Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 139. n. 429.; 

 Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 388. n. 133. 

 Slam. Mus. Banks. 



Genus LXIII. ENISPE E. Douhleday MS. 

 Adolias E. Douhleday, olim. 



Body robust ; wings large, subtriangular, marked above with submarginal rows of lunules, and the hind ones 



beneath with two minute distant ocelli. 

 Head moderate, slightly tufted in front. 



Eyes large, prominent, naked. 



Labial Palpi scaly, directed upwards, and reaching a little higher than the top of the eyes, advanced but a very 

 short distance in front of the face. Terminal joint minute, oval, nearly upright ; middle joint haii-y on the 

 back beyond the middle. 



Antennai half the length of the fore wings, slender ; with an elongated slender club, occupying about one fifth of 

 the antennaj, slightly bent outwards at the tip, with two fine longitudinal grooves beneath. 

 Thorax woolly, robust. 



Fore Wings large, subtriangular. Fore margin very much arched ; apical angle acute. Outer margin straight, 

 a little more than two thirds the length of the anterior. Inner margin nearly straight, scarcely longer than 

 the outer. Costal vein strong. Postcostal with the first branch arising before the anterior extremity of the 

 discoidal cell, and running into the costal vein before the junction of the latter with the costa ; second branch 

 obliterated ; third and fourth branches arising close together at about five sixths of the length of the wing. 

 Upper disco-cellular vein very short and oblique ; middle disco-cellular obliterated ; the upper and lower 

 discoidal veins arising together at the junction of the upper and lower disco-cellular veins ; the latter considerably 

 'arched, very oblique, and united to the third branch of the median vein at the same distance from its base, as 

 exists between the base of the second and third branches of the median, closing the discoidal cell at an acute 

 ano-le ; its anterior extremity extending to two fifths of the length of the wing. 



iTzwf/ TFrn^/.s subtriangular. The costal margin much arched. The outer margin slightly scalloped. Precostal 

 vein upright, its extremity bent slightly towards the body. Subcostal vein branching near its base. Upper 

 disco-cellular forming the slightly curved base of the discoidal vein, and arising at a short distance from the 

 base of the subcostal branch ; lower disco-cellular wanting, so that the naiTow discoidal cell is open at the 

 extremity. j\[edian vein robust, branclilng much lower in the wing than the bi'anches of the subcostal vein. 



Fore Legs of the male minute, pectoral, moderately feathered. The tibia shorter than the femur, and the tarsus nearly 

 equal to the tibia in length, exarticulate, and destitute of apical ungues. (I am unable to describe the structure 

 of the fore legs of the female, all the specimens which I have yet seen of the typical species having been males.) 



Four Hind Legs sti'ong. Tibia3 and tarsi armed beneath with rows of minute spines. Middle pair of legs longer 

 than the hind ones. Ungues rather large, siclde-shaped, and very acute. 

 Abdomen moderately robust. 



This is a very peculiar Indian form recently introduced into our collections from Sylhet and Assam, allied to Harma and Adolias, 

 but distinfjuished by its triangular fore wings, and the curious arrangement of the veins of the same wings, which have one of the 

 branches of the postcostal vein obliterated, as well as tlie middle disco-cellular. The nearest affinity to the tyjiical species is, however, 

 unquestionably, Discophora, a genus which forms the connecting link of the Nymphalida; and Morphida;. Unlike that genus, however, 

 the male does not possess the patch of hairs on the disc of the hind wings which is so remarkable a character in Discophora, and from 

 which it takes its name. Some of the more recently received specimens of the only known species are of a far richer and more coppery 

 colour than represented in our figure : the under side is more uniformly coloured, pale fulvous, with a darker oblique fascia e-xtending 

 from the middle of the fore margin of the fore wings to the anal angle of the hind ones, beyond which the latter are marked with two 

 very minute eyelets wide apart. 



ENISPE. 



I. Anoi.iAs EuTHYMius E. DouU. in Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. I79. (1845). 



Eiiispe Euthymius Doubl. Westw. &j Hcwits. Gen. D. Lcp. pi. 40. f. 2. 

 Silhet, Assam, Himalayan region. B. M. 



