194 LEPIDOPTEIiA INDICA. 



short, open ; subcostal branch and radial at equal distances from the costa. Body 

 moderately stout ; palpi rather stout, apex sharplj pointed, compactly clothed ; 

 antennal club elongated ; eyes naked ; sexes dissimilar. 



Caterpillar. — (Inara). " Cylindrical, Tvith six rows of fine branched-spines, 

 the dorsal row longer than the lateral, and those on the 3rd and 4th segments longer 

 than the rest ; the 2nd segment unarmed ; base of the legs set with short simple 

 spines ; head covered with shoi't simple spines and tubercles." 



Chrysalis. — "Like that of Atliyma ifa/tesfl, but of the processes on the back the 

 posterior one is much longer and more inclined forward " (Davidson and Aitken). 



Mimicry in the Females. — The females of the species of this genus are, 

 apparently, all mimetic. The female of P. Kresna has the coloration and pale dull 

 olivescent-ochreons markings of a Neptis, and is probably a mimic of N. Anjana and 

 its allies JSarita and Omeroda. The females of P. Inara and P. 0«Hia haveochreous- 

 red markings, and both probably mimic the red-banded Neptis Viraja and its allies. 

 The female of P. Selenojphora, with its creamy-white markings, is an excellent mimic 

 of the allied GondocJiates OjMlina, even to the white band on the abdomen, which 

 latter is not present in the male of SelenopJwra. The female of P. rufida, also, is 

 probably a mimic of Neptis Nar and of Neptis Mananda. The female of P. Zeroca, 

 both on the upper and underside i-esembles Neptis Quilta and its ally N. Nashona, of 

 which it is probably a mimic. 



Type.— P. Nefte. 



PAKTOFOEIA NIVIFERA (Plate 262, fig. 2, 2a, b, J' ?). 



Athyma nivifera, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 540, pi. 69, fig. 4, (J. Moore, Journ. Linn. 



Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 37. 

 Athyma Nefte, var. nivifera, Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 163, pi. 16, fig. 6, 7, (J J (1883). 

 Athyma Nefte, Stauclinger, Exot. Schmett. pi. 51, (J $ . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purpurescent-black, with intervening blacker patches 

 between the veins ; cilia slightly alternated with white ; markings bluish-white. 

 Forewing with a narrow basal obscurely-divided bluish-white cell-streak joined to 

 a large rounded spot at end of the cell and then to a narrow triangular disco- 

 cellular spot beyond the cell, the basal and terminal portion being speckled with 

 blue scales ; three conjoined subapical outwardly-oblique ovate spots, below which 

 are three discal inwardly-oblique spots, the upper situated between the middle and 

 lower medians, being large, laterally elongated and oval, the two lower much 

 narrower, the middle one being indented at its sides ; beyond is a submarginal row 

 of obscurely-defined very narrow brownish-white lunules, and then a less defined 

 slender pale brown marginal line. Hinditing crossed by an inner-discal bluish-white 



