NYMPHALIN.^. (Group LIMENITINA.^ 197 



conjoined spots and a subcostal very slender speckled streak above, four lower 

 discal inwardly-disposed conjoined spots, the upper being very small and triangularly 

 ovate, the others very broad and quadrate, the third indented at the sides ; a sub- 

 marginal row of irregular reddish-ochreous lunules, which are much the widest 

 anteriorly and palest posteriorly, followed by a marginal pale greyish-brown hne. 

 Bindwincj crossed by a broad white discal band, which is narrowest anteriorly, a 

 submarginal reddish-ochreous broad lunular band decreasing anteriorly, followed by 

 a marginal pale greyish-brown line. Underside pale dull reddish-ochreous, with 

 very obscure darker-clouded intervening discal patches between the markings ; the 

 discal broad band and cell spots as above, violaceous-white. Foreioing also with a 

 slight whitish-bordered blackish spot below the cell, and the two outer marginal 

 series of lunules violaceous-white posteriorly. Eindwing also with a basal short 

 curved violaceous-white streak above the costal vein; the submarginal broad lunular 

 band violaceous-white posteriorly ; the outer marginal line also violaceous- white ; 

 abdominal margin blnish*-grey. 



Female. Upperside paler brownish-black, with reddish-ochreous cell-streak, 

 discal band and submarginal lunular band ; the cell-streak prominent, lengthened, 

 the parts fused together but thrice indented on the upper edge ; the discal band 

 touching the submarginal lunules above the upper and lower medians ; marginal 

 line pale greyish -brown. Underside pale dull reddish-ochreous with slightly darker 

 intervening discal patches ; cell-streak and basal spot on forewing, and transverse 

 bands on both wings, as in male, but all broader, more obscurely defined, and mostly 

 suffused outwardly with ochreous. Body and palpi above brownish-black ; a bluish- 

 white band on thorax and abdomen in male, and ochreous-white in female; body and 

 palpi beneath and legs greyish-white ; antennae black above, reddish beneath. 



Expanse, S 2^q, ? 2^^^ inches. 



Wet-season brood (Plate 264, fig. 1, c, d, e, (J ? ). 



Athyma Inarina, Butler, AnnaJs Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 304. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 179 



(1886). Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 254. 

 Athyma Inara, Moore, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1858, pi. 1, fig. 6, ^ . 



Imago. — Male and female somewhat larger than the dry-season form. Male. 

 Upperside with similar but brighter-coloured markings. Forewing differs only in 

 the narrow basal cell-streak being more reddish-ochreous, its end spot prominently 

 white, and the discocellular spot beyond more or less distinct ; the transverse discal 

 white band on both wings is narrower, and on the hindwing the submarginal 

 ochreous-red lunular band is also narrower. Underside brighter reddish-ochreous 

 than in dry-season form, markings the same but more prominent, the transverse 

 <liscal bands narrower, as on the upperside, with distinct black intervening patches 



