324 NYMPIIALIDiR. 



Genus LXXXV. KALLIMA E. Douhleday MS. 



Paphia Uorsfield, Hiigel. 



Amatiiusia Boiscliival MS. ; Wesiivood ij- E. DouUedny, olini. 

 Nympiialis p. God'. 



Body robust ; fore wings large, generally acute at the tip ; hind Avings gradually produced into a tail at the anal 



angle ; all the wings traversed across the middle beneath by a straight dark-coloured line. 

 Head large, densely squaniose, with a large rounded tuft of scaly hairs in front. 



Eyes large, naked, and prominent. 



Antennce scarcely more than two fifths of the length of the fore wings, nearly straight ; terminated by a 

 gradually formed slender club, scaly above, finely carinated beneath, rounded off obliquely beneath. 



Labial Palpi large, porrected obliquely at least to the level of the top of the eyes, and advanced in front of tlie 

 face to at least the length of the head ; forming conjointly an elongate conical beak in front, densely scaly to 

 the tip, the scales concealing the articulations ; with a coat of hairs on the back of the middle joint, applied to 

 the face. 

 Thorax elongate-ovate, very scaly. 



Fore Wings large, subtriangular. Fore margin very much rounded, slightly emarginate near the base ; apical 

 angle more or less acute and produced. Apical margin five sixths of tlie length of the anterior, concave below 

 the apex, but more or less concave or subangulated towards the posterior angle (especially at the extremity of 

 the first branch of the median vein). The costal vein extends to the middle of the costa. Subcostal vein 

 with two branches arising before the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell ; each free, and extending to the 

 costa ; third branch arising beyond the extremity of the discoidal cell, and extending to the tip of the wing ; 

 fourth branch arising at about five sixths of the length of the wing, and extending to the apical margin below 

 the apex. Upper disco-cellular vein very short, almost obsolete ; middle disco-cellular short, slightly curved, 

 and rather oblique, being directed towards the base of the wing ; outer disco-cellular distinct in K. Paralekta, 

 but slender, curved rather obliquely, tlie curve being towards the base of the wing, and uniting with the 

 median vein just beyond the origin of its third branch, which is very much arched. The anterior extremity of 

 the discoidal cell reaches just one third of the length of the fore wing, and its posterior extremity is somewhat 

 shorter. 



Hind Wings elongate, subtriangular. Costal margin much arched at the base. Outer margin rounded ; anal 

 angle gradually produced into a tail, which is traversed by the submedian vein. Precostal vein oblique, 

 curved outwardly at the tip. Costal vein extending to the outer angle. Postcostal vein branching nearer the 

 base than the median vein. Discoidal cell closed (in K. Paralekta) by a curved outer disco-cellular vein, 

 rather before the middle of the wing. 



Fore Legs of the male small, pectoral, moderately hairy, but not forming a dense brush, slender. Tarsus about 

 two thirds of tlie length of the til)ia, simple, exunguiculate. Fore Legs of the female longer than those of the 

 male (especially the tarsus), slender, scaly. Femur with a row of short hairs on the inside, set on at right 

 angles. Tarsus nearly as long as the tibia, dilated at the tip, the inside of which is obliquely rounded off, and 

 armed beneath with four pairs of short spines, indicating the articulations at the extremity ; terminal joint 

 very minute and simple. 



Four Hind. Legs moderately long, not very robust. Tibia3 with two rows of very short spines beneath ; tibial 

 spurs short. Tarsi armed beneath with four rows of small spines. Ungues slender, very nuich curved. 

 Abdomen moderately robust, oval. 



Like Bia and Amatiiusia, the species of this genus have each of the hind wings produced into a tail at the anal angle ; whilst the 

 fore wings, as in Siderone and Heteropsis, have the apical angle more or less acuminated. This is especially the ease with some 

 specimens of K. Paralekta, whilst in K. Eurodoce the fore wings are quite hooked at the tip ; in K. Bisaltide, however, they are 

 subtrunoate at the tip. I have united into this genus several species possessing a general similarity of form, as well as agreeing in 

 having a straight dark-coloured line running across all the wings on the under side, extending from the tip of the fore wings to the anal 

 angle of the hind ones ; although it is very singular that these species exhibit so great a dlfterence in the arrangement of the 

 wing veins, that some of them have the discoidal cell in all the wings closed, whilst in others it is equally open in all the wings. 



^ I have regarded K. Paralekta as the type of the genus, and have accordingly derived from it the majority of the generic characters 

 given above. K. Bisaltide, however, differs from the type not only in the open condition of the discoidal cell in all the wings, but also 

 in the shorter labial palpi, and the truncate form of the tip of the fore wings. 



I am indebted to Dr. Uorsfield for a specimen of the chrysalis skin of K. Bisaltide, reared by him in Java. The specimen has 

 unfortunately lost the head-case, so that I am unable to state whether it is boat-shaped and bifid, as the chrysalis of Araathusia 

 Phidippus appears to be, from Dr. Horsfield's figure of it, subsequently referred to. The thorax-case is produced along the middle, on 

 the upper side, into a conical ridge, and the cover of the base of the inner margin of each of the fore wings is also produced into a 

 rounded prominence ; the al)domen-case has no conical or other, protuberances. The entire surface of this chrysalis is covered with 

 a multitude of minute striae or wrinkles, which are dark-coloured on the wing-cases. 



