NTMPHALIN^. (Group NYMPHALIIfA.) Ill 



PijPA. — Suspended by tail. Thorax and abdomen laterally protuberant in front ; 

 with an anterio-dorsal and thoracic pointed prominence ; abdominal segments with 

 a row of dorsal and lateral small points ; head-piece projected and widely cleft. 



Type. — S. Hippoclus. 



Distribution of Genus. — This is a truly oriental genus, being found, in India 

 throughout the Himalayas, Assam, and the Eastern Ghats; in Burma, Upper 

 Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, extending to the Philippine Islands 

 and W. and C. China, but does not occur in Ceylon, the Andaman or Nicobar 

 Islands. 



Seasonal Variation. — The species of this genus, occurring within our area are, 

 apparently, all seasonally variable, the markings of the upperside, in both sexes of 

 the ivet-season broad, being narrow and brightly-coloured, and in those of the dry- 

 season brood broader, more irregularly-shaped, and paler in colour. In a Philippine 

 species (S. Anna, Semper) the sexes are dimorphic — the male having red bands and 

 the female ochreous-white bands, — and in 8. dissolida, Stgr., from Palawan, the 

 bands in male are red, and in female almost white. In the Java species {S. Jaranus) 

 — fisfvu'ed in Hiibner's Exot. Schmett. — the male has red bands, and the female is 

 stated to be dimorphic, some having red bands, others pure white bands. 



SYMBRENTHIA LTJCINA. 



Wet-season form (Plate 321, fig. 1, larva and piqxi ; fig. la b, c, ^ ? ). 



Symbrenfhia Khasiana, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 1874, p. 569, (^ ? . de Xice'ville, Butt, of India, etc., 



ii. p. 241 (1886). 

 Symbrentkia Hippoclus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, 243, pi. 11, fig. 4, 4a. de Niceville, Juurn. As. 



Soc. Bengal, 1882, p. 57. Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 240 (1886). Dolierty, id. 1886, p. 122. 



Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 431, pi. 42, fig. 4, 5, c? $ (1886). Leech, Butt. China, etc., i. p. 284. 

 SijmbrentMa Asthala, Leech, I.e. pi. 25, fig. 2, ^J- 



Imago. — Male. Upperside fulvescent-black, with pale fulvous bands. Cilia 

 alternated with white. Foreioing with an elongated rather narrow irregular clavi- 

 form discoidal band, its upper edge indented before and at end of the cell, its lower 

 edge including and slightly bordering the median vein ; a subapical oblique sinuous 

 band extending to the costa, its lower portion beiug usually broken in two, but 

 sometimes coalescent, above its end there is generally a very small attached spot 

 and always a slender apical lunule ; below is an obhque discal band, which is con- 

 stricted at the lower median veinlet, its upper portion being quadrate and some- 

 times with a very small attached spot at its outer lower angle. Hindwing with a 

 short basal costal patch, a rather broad discal band, which is narrowest anteriorly 

 and widens suddenly on the abdominal margin ; a much narrower submarginal 



