NYMPHALlXyE. (Giou;, LUiEyrriXA., 205 



(J. Bombay N. H. S. 1896, 254). Mr. G. F. Hanipson found it " very rare on the 

 Nilgiris at 3000 to 5000 feet elevation " (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 354). Capt. E. Y. 

 Watson took a male at the Gersoppa Falls, Mysore, in January (J. Bombay N. H. S. 

 1890,5). Mr. H. Ferguson found it "not uncommon on the Travancore Hills" 

 {ul 1891, 9). 



Mr. J.J. Walker obtained it in "Hong Kong, in April and May" (Tr. Ent. 

 Soc. 1895, 457). 



PANTOPORIA ZEROCA. 



AtJii/ma Zeroea, Moore, Pioc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 564, cj . Je Niccville, Jouin. Asiatic Soc. Eoiigul, 

 1883, p. 94 ; id. 1886, p. 359, pi. 16, fig. 6, S ; i<i- Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 177 (1886). 



Wetseasoti brood (Plate 268, fig. 1, la, b, e, J ? ). 



Imago. — Male. Forewings comparatively shorter and more rounded at the apex 

 than in the closely allied P. sdenophom. Male. Upperside rich purpurescent 

 brownish-black, with blacker intervening bordering patche.=! between the veins. 

 Foretoing with a very obscure ochreous-brown entire, but distorted, cell-streak and a 

 discocellular spot beyond ; three subapical oblique small sullied bluish-white spots, 

 the two upper being more or less lunate, the third very small or obsolescent ; a lower 

 transverse discal bluish-white band (slightly varying in width in individual specimens) 

 edged with blue scales, composed of four portions of neai'ly equal width ; followed by 

 a submarginal pale brown lunular line and a marginal narrow line. Hindwing crossed 

 by a bluish-white inner-discal band edged with blue scales, followed by a sub- 

 marginal pale brown lunular line and a marginal narrow line. Underside deep 

 reddish-ochreous, the extreme base of costal borders of both wings being yellowish- 

 ochreous ; subapical lunular spots, and discal band on both wings bluish-white, as on 

 the upperside. Forevnng also with a prominent irregular-edged entire cell-streak 

 and sagittate spot beyond, and also the marginal lunular lines violaceous- white ; the 

 apical and discal interspaces between the veins with black diffused patches ; a black 

 mark below base of the cell bordered with violaceous-white. Hindwimj also with a 

 short curved subbasal streak, submarginal lunular line and narrow marginal line 

 violaceous-white ; two very obscure dusky bars within the cell and two similar bars 

 above the cell ; an outer discal row of distinct reddish-black diffused spots ; abdominal 

 margin bluish-grey. 



Female. Upperside olivescent fuliginous-brown, with blackish intervening 

 discal interspaces between the veins ; markings sullied brownish-white with slightly 

 diffused edges, very similar in both colour and pattern to those of ^epHs carficoides 

 and its allies. Forewing with a sullied brownish-white irregulai'-edged but entire 

 narrow cell-streak and an elongated triangular discocellular streak beyond ; a trans- 

 verse discal serie.s of three subapical oulwardly-oblique narrow spots, the third 



