CHAPRA. 33 



male much smaller, those on the disc being slender (not quadrate as in 

 C. mathias), and the oblique glandular patch not so prominent. Female 

 also similar." (Moore, 1. c. in Lep. Cey.) 



Recorded from Ceylon (Hutchison) ; Poona, Mhow, Belgaum, Bombay 

 (Swinhoe)', Nicobars (Wood-Mason and de Niceville)', Calcutta (de Niceville) ; 

 Cachar (Wood-Mason and de Niceville}', Nilgiris (Hampson.) 



This species is also doubtfully distinct from C. mathias. 



In collection Indian Museum. 



38. CHAPRA PROMINENS, MOORE. 



CJiapra prominens, Moore, P. Z. S., 1882, p. 261. 



11 Male and female. Upperside dark olive brown, basal area brighter 

 olive. Male forewing with eight rather large quadrate yellowish semi- 

 diaphanous spots, three being disposed before the apex, three discal and two 

 very obliquely at end of the cell ; a prominent narrow oblique yellow brand 

 or streak below the cell, which in the female is replaced by two spots, the 

 upper one of which is very small : hindwing with four yellow semi-diaphanous 

 contiguous spots. Underside paler ; spots on forewing as above, the brand 

 showing as a diffused yellow patch from its outer edge ; the series of spots 

 on hindwing more prominently white with a fifth spot at the upper end, and 

 one also at the upper end of the cell. 



Expanse, if inch. 



Hab. N.-W. Himalayas: Tonse valley 6,000 ft., Gurwhal (Lang)', 

 Kussowlee ; Kangra. 



An allied species to this from Shanghai, N. China, has lately been 

 described by Mons. Mabille as Gegenes sinensis (Bull. Soc. Zool. de France, 

 1887, p. 232) from which the above differs in its somewhat broader wings 

 and larger size of the markings on the forewing." (Moore, I. c.) 



Also recorded from Sikkim (de Niceville : Elwes) ; Kumaon (Doherty) ; 

 Nilgiris (Hampson). 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



39, CHAPRA NOSTRODAMUS, FABRICIUS. 

 Papilio nostrodamus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii., pt. i, p. 323, n. 246 



0793)- 



Pamphila nostrodamus, Kirby, Eur. Butt., p. 65 (1882). 



" Dark brown, base smoky black ; inner margin of the hindwing paler 

 than the ground colour, and a few white dots on the forewing in the female. 

 Underside pale brown, with some obscure white spots towards the tip of the 

 forewing, and in the female at the hind-margin of the hindwing also. 

 Expands a little over one inch. It inhabits South Europe, North Africa, 

 and Western Asia in August, and is found in dry places." (Kirby, I. c.) 



Recorded from Campbellpore, Kala Pani and Hurripur, N.-W. India, 

 (Butler). 



In collection Indian Museum, 



