NTMPHALIN^. [GToap wmphaltna.) 151 



angle rounded ; posterior margin nearly straight ; cell large and broad; first sub- 

 costal brancli emitted at one-fifth before end of cell, second at a short distance before 

 the end, third at nearly half-way beyond the cell and ending on the costa before the 

 apex, fourth reaching the apex ; upper discocellular veiy short and outwardly- 

 oblique ; middle discocellular twice as long, inwardly-oblique and slightly curved ; 

 lower discocellular outwardly-recurved and emitting a short spur at upper end into 

 the cell ; middle median emitted at considerable distance before lower end of cell ; sub- 

 median vein slightly recurved. Ilindwing broadly ovate, very convex externally ; 

 outer margin slightly scalloped ; precostal vein slightly incurved ; costal vein 

 curved upward and extending close along the mai'gin ; discocellulars outwardly- 

 oblique ; middle median emitted immediately before lower end of cell ; submedian 

 and internal vein slightly recurved. Body moderately stout, abdomen rather long ; 

 palpi ascending, second joint reaching to the vei'tex and densely-clothed with hair- 

 scales, which are longest at the sides and tip above ; apical joint rather long and 

 cylindrical, smoothly-scaled ; antenna? long, with a gradually-formed very slender 

 club; eyes naked ; forelegs of male slender, clothed with rather short fine silky- 

 haii'S ; forelegs of female coarsely-scaled above, more coarsely beneath, tarsus rather 

 thick, joints laterally spined at the tip. 

 Type. — P. Lisarda. 



PENTHEMA LISARDA (Plate 333, fig. 1, la, b, c? 9 )• 



Diadema Lisarda, Doubleday, Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1845, p. 233. 



Penthema Lisarda, Doubleday and Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. ii. p. 281, pi. 39, fig. 3 (18-17-50). 



Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 160 (1857). Wood-Mason, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881. 



p. 86, pi. 3, fig. 1, (J. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. Hi (1886). Stiudinger and 



Schalz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 135 (1887). 

 Nymplialis Euphrone, Westwood, 'Cabinet of Oriental Entom. p. 55, pi. 27, fig. 1 (1848). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside purpurescent brownish-black, the fore- 

 wing being slightly flushed with blue in certain lights ; cilia alternated with white. 

 Forewing witli an olivescent-white streak along lower base of the cell, two obliquely- 

 superposed longitudinal streaks before end of the cell, a discal curved series of 

 seven streaks longitudinally disposed in the interspaces from the upper subcostal to 

 the submedian vein, the upper four narrowly-elongated and black-speckled outwardly, 

 the fourth shortest, the next three broader and increasing in length, the lowest 

 being the broadest and cleft at its outer end, and somewhat bent below the cell; a 

 narrower longer streak also bordering the posterior margin below the submedian 

 vein ; beyond is an outer-discal transverse row of six rounded spots, the upper one 

 the smallest ; followed by a parallel submarginal row of seven almost-quadrate spots, 



