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LEPIDOPTERA IKDIGA. 



as specified by Westwood (Gen, D. Lep. p. 289) ; and, as bofh Dirieaand Nesimachus 

 are generically distinct from them, as well as from each other, and, moreover, as 

 Nesimachus was made the type of Butler's genus Dichorragia in 1868, the second 

 species, Dirtea, becomes the type of Adolias. 



ADOLIAS DIRTEA (Plate 213, figs. 2, 2a, ^J $ ). 



Papilio Dirtea, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1, p. 59, 9 (1793). Jones, Icones, iv. pi. 65, fig. 1. 



Adolias Dirtea, Gray, Lep. Ins. of Nepal, p. 12, pi. 10, figs. 1, 2, c? ? (1846). Moore, Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 1859, p. 84. 



Lexias Dirtea, Felder, Wieu. Ent. Monats. 1860, p. 400. 



Symphcedra Dirtea, Doubleday and Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 294 (1850). Butler, P. Z. S. 1868, 

 p. 613; id. Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 88 (1869). Distant, Ehop. Malay, p. 112, pi. 12, 

 figs. 7, 8, (J ? (1883). de Nic^ville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 189 (1886). 



AdoliaB Boisduvalii, Gray, Boisdnval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 8, fig. 2, ^ (1836). 



SympJxEdra Canescens, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. pi. 54, (J ? {nee Butler). 



Symphcedra Sandalcana, Fruhstorf, Ent. Nach. 1896, p. 39. 



Imago. — Male. TJpperside velvety brownish-black. Cilia alternated with white. 

 Foreivivg with a broad marginal olivescent-greenish band decreasing in width towards 

 the apex, its inner edge being sinuous ; two very small white obliquely-superposed 

 Bubapical spots, one (or sometimes two) similar-disposed pale ochreous spots midway 

 between them and two other less-defined spots outside end of the cell ; two (sometimes 

 three) brighter ochreous spots within the cell ; sometimes also there are faint traces 

 of a series of smaller inner-discal ochreous spots and three or four very small 

 greenish-ochreous discal spots parallel with the outer band. Hinchving with a broad 

 pale ultramarine-blue outer-discal fascia, which is suffused with olivescent-greenish 

 posteriorly, and bears a submarginal series of black somewhat-cordate spots, the 

 outer edge of the blue band being acutely sinuous, and the marginal border posteriorly 

 suffused with olivescent-green. Underside reddish-ochreous ; posterior area of the 

 forewing suffused with bluish-black. Forewing with a cluster of pale ochreous- 

 yellow irregular-shaped spots within the cell, two connected spots beyond the cell, 

 and an obliquely-curved inner-discal series of four small spots, followed by an 

 outer-discal lower series of four and two subapical larger whitish spots, and then by 

 a lower submarginal series of pale bluish lunate spots. Hindiving with three pale 

 yellow rounded spots in the cell, one below the base of the lower subcostal, and a 

 curved discal series of six (sometimes seven) pale yellow spots, followed by a more 

 or less slightly-defined series of submarginal blackish points. Body above blackish- 

 brown, beneath ochreous ; palpi beneath and legs ochreous ; antennse black tipt with 

 ochreous. 



Female. Upperside dark ochreous-brown ; cilia pale ochreous-yellow. Fore- 



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