NEMEOBHNJS. 101 



STIBOGES NYMPHIDIA (Plate 105, figs. 2, 2a, c?, 9). 



StihoQes Nijmphidia,But\Qr, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1876, p. 309, pi. 22, fi-. 1, S- Distant, Ehop. 

 Malayana, p. 193, pi. 24, fig. 11, ^ (1883). de Xieeville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 31G, pi. 24, 

 fig. 119, ? (1S8G). Leech, Butt, of China, i. p. 295 (1893). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 239, 

 pi. 87, (J (1S88). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside pure white ; cilia black alternated witli 

 white, Male. Foreicing with a bluish-black broad costal and outer marginal band, 

 which is irregularly sinuated internally ; a submargiual .series of white spots, of 

 which the two upper are largest, the next two minute, the lower being obscure ; 

 followed by a marginal row of four or five slender spots. Hindwing with a very short 

 basal and a broad outer marginal bluish-black band, the latter undulated internally 

 and bearing a submarginal pale denticulated line which sometiines slightly show a 

 whitish point between the veins, followed by a marginal row of slender white 

 lunules. Underside, as above ; the dark borders being brownish-black ; white outer 

 markings as on upperside. 



Female. Upper and underside as in male, except that on the fureiring the 

 white inner area is broader anteriorly, and the submarginal i*ow of spots distinct ; 

 and on the hindwing there is also a submarginal row of distinct white spots. Under- 

 side as on upperside. 



Expanse, ^ \^^y to Ifo, ? Iro to 1 ^'^ inch. 



H.\BiTAT. — Bhotau ; Naga and Khasia Hills; Burma; Malay Peninsula; 

 Sumatra ; W. and C. China. 



DiSTEiBUTioN. — Mr. L. de Niceville {I.e.) recoi'ds " a male from the Khasia Hills 

 and a female from the Naga Hills, in the Indian Museum, C;)lcutta, and a single 

 female example, taken by Mr. A. V. Knyvett's native collector, in Buxa, Bhotan, in 

 June." It is also noted, by the same author, to " occur, but not commonly, in 

 Bhotan, during the summer and autumn " (Sikkim Gaz., 1894, 149). A male, 

 from the Naga Hills, taken by Col. Godwin-Austen, is in the Ilewitson collection. A 

 female, taken at Momeit, Upper Burma, at about 2000 feet elevation, by Mr. "\Y. 

 Doherty, and others from Perak, are recorded by Mr. H. J. Elwes (P. Z. S 1891, 

 288). A male, taken by Dr. Forbes in Sumatra, is in Mr. H. Grose-Smith's collec- 

 tion, and a male, also from Sumatra, in Col. C. Swinhoe's collection. Mr. L. de 

 Niceville I'ecords it as having been found, by Dr. L. Martin, in N.E. Sumatra, 

 only in the Central Plateau, and is rare even there, six specimens only being obtained 

 in thirteen years" (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1895, 440). Mr. J. H. Leech has 

 examples from Moupin, W, China, and from Omei Shan, C. China. 



Allied Species. — Stihogcs caJycoides, Fruhstorfer, Entom. Xachr. 1897, p. 02. 

 Habitat. Java. 



