of the Genus Adollas. 83 



45. Adolias Nicea, G. R. Gray. 



Aconthea Nicea, G. R. Gray, Lep. Ins. of Nepal, p. 13, t. 12, f. 1 



(1833). 

 Adolias Nicea, Doubleday, List. Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. i. p. 105 ; 



VVestwood, in Doubleday and Hewitson's Diurnal Lep. 



p. 291, n. 2. 

 Hab. Darjeeling. 

 In Museum East India Company. 



Adolias Nicea. — Male. Upperside ve\vety-h\ack ', fore-wing 

 with a marginal, short sub-marginal, and a shorter third row of 

 small white spots, the marginal row bounded inwardly by a row of 

 small indistinct blue spots; also indistinct blue marks within dis- 

 coidal cell : Jiind-wing with a marginal row of black spots en- 

 circled with blue inwardly, and with white outwardly. Ciliae 

 white. Underside brown-black : fore-wing as above: hind-wing 

 with marginal row of white lunulated spots, and a sub-marginal 

 row of minute white dots. 



Female. Upperside marked as in male, but washed with olive- 

 green, the marginal row of encircled spots of hind-wing larger, 

 and with a sub-marginal narrow greenish line. Underside with 

 the three rows of white spots on fore wing extending to posterior 

 margin ; on the hind-wing the marginal row of lunulated spots 

 are larger, and there is a sub-marginal row of white spots, also a 

 third inner row of bluish-white spots. 



Expanse of male 2| to 2|, female 2| inches. 



46. Adolias Nesimachus, Boisduval. 



Adolias Nesimachus, Boisduval, in Cuvier's Reg. An. edit. Cro- 



chard, Ins. t. 139, f. 1 (183-) ; E. Doubleday, List Lep. 



Brit. Mus. pt. i. p. 105 ; Westwood, in Doubleday and 



Hewitson's Diurnal Lep. p. .291, n. 12. 

 Argynnis Hippomenes, Kaden, in Herr. SchaefFer's Lep. Exot. 



ser. ii. fasc. 1 et 2, fig. 11, 12 (1853). 

 Hab. N. India, Assam, Darjeeling. 

 In Collection British Museum, East India Company, &c. 



Adolias Nesimachus, — Upperside black, suffused more or less 

 with green : fore-wing with a number of whitish spots disposed 

 about the basal half; at the extremity of discoidal cell three lon- 

 gitudinal streaks, and above these on costal margin some narrow 

 streaks, wl)ite ; a double sub marginal row of narrow white zigzag 

 lines, and a marginal row of white spots ; hind-wing with whitish 



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