( 553 ) 



Hindwiug bright feirngiQOus 



Hiiidwing olive-inisset, or raw umber colonr 



Autemedian pair of liaes of forewing, 

 above, and first and second discal line 

 conspicuous, more or less filled in with 

 black, interspace between second and 

 feeble third discal line grey in front 

 and behind, postdisco-submarginal line 

 snddeul}' projecting basad betiveen R- 

 and K' to near third discal line ; no 

 blackish shadowy band from costal mar- 

 gin to hinder angle .... 



Forewing with feeble blackish shade from 

 costal margin to liiuder angle, or very 

 uniform in colour ..... 



Palpus below scaled white and black (or 

 brown), contrasting with the breast 



Palpus below of nearly the same dark 

 colonr as breast and abdomen 



475. 

 474. 



X. s/ihcaria. 

 N. (hdyma. 



\x'l. S . iirceiitilprii. 



. i. 

 478. N. funebris. 

 481. N. peticus. 



477. N. comma. 



478. N. funebris 



b. 



mrindoHa. 



Key to the forms with stigma of X. peneus, comma, accentifera, funebris . 

 (I. One comma-shaped spot, upon cross- 

 veins, widest behind . 

 One ovate spot upon cross-veins 

 Two or three spots, often confluent. 

 h. A triangular spot along R' pointing 

 distad, another above it 

 Three spots placed in a half-ring, 

 second and third often confluent, 

 third at R2 .... 



Three spots, 1 in cell, 2 and 3 upon 

 cross-veins, one above the otlier . 



478. N. funehris funebris. 



481. y. peneus. 



482. N. accentifera. 



474. Nephele didyma. 



*.'ijihiiix illih/11,11 Fabricius, .%»■/. Enl. p. 54.''.. n. i.S (1875) (Ind. or. ;— Miia. Brit.). 



S<-I,h,hii;,hiwii. Hubner, Verr.. hel: Srhiu. p. Vi'i. n. U.S.3 (18:i2) (partial) ; Kirby, dil. Lej>. Uet. i. 

 p. 680. n. U! (18112) (India ; " Austral." aim eper.). 



Xuniliu miirjilifiiK Cramer, I'li/i. Erol. ii. p. 84. t. I4'.l. f. n (1777) (Coromandel ) ; Walk., Lift Lep. 

 Ins. II. M. viii. p. 1114. n. tt (IH.'jfi) (Nepaul ; Landoor ; N, India : Canara ; Ceylon ; " Aus- 

 tralia" aliii Kjier.) ; Moore, in Horsf. it Moore, Cril. Lrp. Im. Mii«, K. I. C. i. p. 2G'.I. n. GUI 

 (1857) (Dukhum ; X. India; Canara; Ceylon); id., I'rw: Zonl. Soc. Lmul p. 7;i:i (ISG.")) 

 (Bengal = ohIilmwK) ; Boisd., .Syw. (liji. Uji. ll,t.\. p. i:',!), n. 1 (1S75) (larva : "Madagascar" 

 ulvt njipr."). 



Nfphile Intpeni, Butler, Tninx. Z,ml. S„r. Lniid i.\. p. 624. D. 1). t. '.H. f. 20. 21 (/. /i.) (1877) 

 ("Australia" mnr Im-i) ; Moore, Lep. Cci/lnii ii. p. 2. t. 72. f. I. 1 a. b (/. /) (1882) ; Swinh., 

 Pror. y.iiol. f<or. Lmirl. p. 287. n. 1 (IKHfi) (Poona, vii. ix.— xi. ; Hattera, vi. xi. ; Bombay, x.— 

 xii.) ; Swinh., /.«•. p. 4H.'>. n. 17 (IHH(i) (Mbow, iv.— vi.) ; Cotes it Swinh., C'al. .UoHih IikL i. 

 p. U. n. 18.0(1887) ; Swinli,, ./</»,•«. linmhini N. II. S,„: iii. p. 1 HI. n. IT. (1888) (Km-arhi, viii. ; 

 = eliiniH = (lidf/iiiii = miir/i/ii'iiH - iiliUtfruiiH) ; Warr., I'rur. Zmil. Siir. I.und. p. 2!i;i. n. I (I8KH) 

 (Campbellpore, vi.) ; Swiuh., 7'm»». Eul. Sur. Loml. p. IG."). n. 24 (18'.lll)(Mandalay) ; Hamps., 

 111,1,1,., Till,. SpH-hn. Lep. Ihl. Ii. .\l. viii. p. 2. n. :« (18111) ; Swiuh., Cil. I.,'/,. 11,1- .V"«. '■'•'-• i. 



