NYMPHALIN^. (Group EUTMALIIlfA.) 79 



Eindwing broadly ovate, apex and exterior margin convex, very slightly scalloped ; 

 precostal spur long, excurved, emitted opposite base of subcostal ; cell broad across 

 the middle, closed ; discocellulars long, outwardly recurved, radial from above the 

 middle ; the middle median emitted before lower end of the cell. Body moderately 

 slender ; palpi porrect, compactly scaled beneath, slightly hairy above ; antennae 

 long and slender, club slender ; eyes naked. Sexes alike. 

 Type. — N. Doubledayi. 



NEUROSIGMA DOUBLEDAYI (Plate 218, figs. 1, la, b, (^9). 



Acontia Doubledayi, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Entom. p. 76, pi. 37, fig. 4, ? (1848). 

 Neurodgma DoubleJai/i, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 277, pi. 27, fig. 7, S. 

 Adolias Siva, Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 291 (1850). 



Neuromgma Siva, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S68, p. 615. de Niccville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. 

 p. 151, pi. 19, fig. 80, S (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Foreiving reddish-ochreous at the base, with basal 

 spots and margins of black ; the outer portion of the wing also broadly black, and 

 crossed by an inner and an outer discal series of olivescent- white broad irregularly- 

 lunate marks, and a submarginal row of oval spots. Eindwing with the veins and 

 basal streaks broadly black, the outer margin also broadly black ; basal interspaces, 

 an inner and an outer discal series of irregular- shaped spots, and a submarginal 

 row of smaller rounded spots olivescent-white ; the white interspace between tlie 

 discocellular black streak and the two black discal spots sometimes tinged with pale 

 ochreous. Underside paler; the colour and markings as above, except that the 

 basal black markings are smaller, and the white broader, and tinged with blue. 

 Body and palpi above black ; thorax and base of abdomen spotted with reddish- 

 ochreous ; sides of abdomen with paler ochreous ; body and palpi beneath, and legs 

 pale ochreous ; middle and hind femur and tibia blackish above. 



Female. Upperside as in the male; the markings being broader, and the 

 discocellular interspace on the hindwing of the same reddish-ochreous tint as on 

 base of the forewing. Underside as on the upperside. 



Expanse, S 3^ to ^^q, ? S^^o to "^xb inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Assam ; Khasia and Naga Hills ; Burma. 



Distribution. — Of this species we have examined and verified specimens of both 

 sexes taken in Sikkim in April and May by Mr. Otto Moller, now in Mr. Walter 

 Rothschild's collection; females from the Khasia Hills, in the same collection, and 

 also in our own, the latter taken by Major Godwin-Austen. Mr. P. Crowley 

 possesses a female from Shillong, and a male from the Naga Hills. Dr. J, 

 Anderson obtained it during the Western Yunan Expedition of 1868-75. Mr. L. 



