NYMPEALIN^. (Group NYMPUALIXA.I 153 



certain lights. Forewing with similarly-disposed markings, but all being smaller and 

 of a distinct violescent bluish-white, those within the cell being very small, short and 

 oval, the lower broken into two portions, the discal series also very small and short, 

 except the lower, which is either elongate and slender in the middle or divided into 

 two portions ; the two outer series of spots are somewhat smaller, and the sub- 

 marginal row cordate in shape ; the posterior marginal streak is entire, but its base 

 is tinged with pale dull straw-yellow. Hindiving with similarly-disposed markings, 

 but all of a pale sullied straw-yellow ; the cell-area divided into either two or three 

 streaks ; the discal streaks shorter and narrower, and in the female are coalescent 

 with the outer-discal spots; no streak present above the subcostal ; the outer-discal 

 oval-spots are larger, and the submarginal spots much larger, conical, and deeply 

 excavated externally ; the setose clothing of the median and submedian interspaces 

 brown. Underside ; ground-colour as in P. Lisarda, Forewing with the markings, 

 as on upperside, violescent bluish'white. Hindwiug with the markings, as on 

 upperside, those of the female being broader, and sullied ochreous-white. 



Expanse, 5 to S^-q inches. 



Habitat. — Burma ; Upper Tenasserim. 



Distribution. — " Fairly common in high forests throughout Burma" (de Nice- 

 ville, Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1899). " Capt. C. T. Bingham obtained nume- 

 rous specimens in the Thoungyeen forests in Upper Tenasserim " {id. Butt. India, 

 ii. 145). Col. C. H. B. Adamson obtained " a single specimen near the Siamese 

 frontier in Tenasserim, in March. It had settled on some elephant dimg " (List 

 1897, p. 22). Mr. W. Doherty obtained " specimens at the foot of the Karen Hills " 

 (P. Z. S. 1891, 276). 



PENTHEMA BINGHAMI (Plate 335, fig. 1, la, ^). 



Penthema Binghami, Wood-jMason, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 87, pi. 4, fig. 1, S • Butler, 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. 1882, p, 372. de Niceville, Butt, of Indi, etc, ii. p. UG, front plate, fig. 121, 

 S (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Differs from P. Darlisa, on the foreioing, in the 

 absence of the cell and lower-discal markings, their positions and shape, however, 

 being apparent by slightly paler spaces than the pnrpnrescent brownish-black 

 ground-colour ; the oblique upper-discal spots are black-speckled and less prominent, 

 and the two outer rows of bluish-white spots are less sharply defined. On the 

 hindiving the cell and discal streaks are also absent ; the outer-discal and sub- 

 marginal spots are of a pale sullied straw-yellow, and are of the same size and shape 

 as in Darlisa, the outer end of the lower-discal streaks being also present ; the 



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