NYMPSALINM. (Oroap nyupbalina.) 127 



black-edged bronze-green spots, with brighter green borders ; these spots are 

 irrorated and more or less suffused with blackish ; from apex to second median 

 branch is a series of gradually increasing marginal black spots, edged externally 

 with pink, the last two crossed by a red stripe ; a large bright olive-green semi- 

 circular spot, with black inner border and bluish-white outer border at outer 

 extremity of first median interspace, and a large black spot, crossed by a red 

 A-shaped marking, and bordered along its iufero-exterior border with grey, at the 

 extremity of interno-median area ; a triangular black and red spot at extremity of 

 abdominal fold " (Butler, I.e. 306). 



Expanse, c? S^-q inches. 



Habitat. — Manipur ; Upper Assam. 



Note. — " Duller in colour than P. Angelica; differs in the absence of white on 

 the blue belt, and in the great width of the belt, and in the presence of blue 

 marginal spots on the forewing, the less caudate hindwing, the cruciform character 

 of the black submargiual markings of the underside of the forewing, the filled-in 

 discoidal mai-kings on both wings, the inner-half of external area of hindwing, on 

 the underside, being greyish-olivaceous crossed by oblong black patches with reddish 

 external borders, the shorter green and black submarginal arched spots, etc." 

 (Butler, I.e. 54). 



Distribution. — A single specimen of the male of this species was taken in 

 Manipur by Dr. G. Watt. Mr. "W. Doherty "obtained one male near Margherita, 

 and one was seen near Sadiya, Upper Assam, the former agreeing with regalis in 

 the dusky underside, and the very broad blue band and five blue spots of the fore- 

 wing above, but the hindwing and the base of the forewing have an obvious violet- 

 gloss, though they are not, as in angelica, powdei^ed with the bluish-white scales " 

 {I.e. 126). 



Indo-Malayan Species. — Prothoe Niasica, Rober, Entom. Nachr. 1894, p. 366. 

 Habitat. Nias Island. — Prothoe Franelcii (Nym. Francki, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. 

 Suppl. p. 825 (1823). Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 54 (1823-26). 

 Doubleday and Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. ii. p. 266, pi. 51, fig. 3, ? (1850). Wallace, 

 Tr. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 80. Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 52. HaUtat. Java.— 

 Prothoe Semperi, Honrath, Berl Ent. Zeit. 1884, p. 204, pi. 2, fig. 1, la. Semper, 

 Reiseu Phil. Lep. p. 77, pi. 15, fig. 1 (1887). Habitat. Mindanao.— /VofAoe Plateni, 

 Staudinger (Semper, Reisen Phil. Lep. p. 334). Habitat. Mindoro. 



Genus AGATASA. 



Male. More robust than in typical Protlioe. Forewing with the base of costal 

 and subcostal vein curved inward, the subcostal being perfectly free from end of 



