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STICHOPHTHALMA NOURMAHAL (Plate 160, figs. 1, la, b, <? ? ). 



Thaumantis Nourmahal, Westwood, Gem. of D. Lap. p. 337 (1851) ; id. Trans. Eat. Soc. 1856, 

 p. 178, pi. 18, figs. 1, la, ?. Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East Ind. Company, i. p. 215 (1857). 

 Marshall and de Niciiville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 312 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. TJpperside with botli wings chestnut-red, cilia brownish cine- 

 reous. Forewing crossed by a broad excurved oblique subapical ochreous fascia, 

 which extends from the costa to the outer margin below the apex and to the pos- 

 terior angle, the apex of the wing being darker brown, and the fascia traversed by 

 a submarginal row of dark brown hastate points and a marginal row of lunules. 

 Hindwing with the outer border narrowly margined with ochreous and traversed by 

 a submarginal and a marginal row of similar brown marks. Underside paler. Both 

 wings crossed by a subbasal and a medial discal slender black irregular line, the 

 subbasal edged on its innerside and the discal on its outerside with ohvescent 

 silvery-grey scales ; on the forewing the base of second subcostal, and the discocel- 

 lulars to the middle black ; the outer border with a submarginal and a marginal 

 black zigzag line. Forewing also with an outer discal series of five round ocelli, of 

 which the lower first and the fourth are the most defined, being red with a white 

 pupil, black ring and then an outer pale ochreous ring ; the others being ill- 

 defined by ochreous scales. Hindwing also with similar but somewhat larger 

 ocelli, the first, third, and fifth being more brightly developed and are of a deep 

 red, the second and fourth being ill-defined by ochreous scales. Body, legs, and 

 palpi beneath pale ochreous ; legs and palpi above reddish-brown ; antennae black. 



Female. TJpperside similar to the male, but somewhat darker coloured, the 

 oblique subapical fascia on the forewing slightly broader, and with a prominent 

 white spot before the apex between the subcostals ; the submai-ginal and marginal 

 markings also somewhat broader. Underside darker than in the male, being of an 

 olivescent brownish-ochreous colour and darkest across the disc ; the subbasal and 

 discal black lines also broadly edged with silvery-grey ; the ocelli and submarginal 

 lines similar. 



Expanse, S Bfo to 4, ? 4<^q to 4fo inches. 



Habitat. — Native Sikkim. 



. DiSTEiBUTiON. — The type was described from a female in the collection of the 

 late Mr. "W. W. Saunders ; specimens of both sexes were also in the East India 

 Company's Museum, and others in the Hewitsonian collection. According to " Mr. 

 A. V. Knyvett, specimens have recently been obtained by his collectors in Native 

 Sikkim" (de Kiceville, Journ. Bombay, N. H. Soc. 1890, p. 131). 



