NYMPHALIN^. {Groap NrMPiiALiyj.) 169 



Habitat, — Burma ; Upper Tenasserim. 



DiSTRiBaTiox. — -001. C. H. E. Adamson records it as being found frequent in 

 forests throughout Burma. He possesses examples from Akyab, taken in April ; 

 Chindwin Valley, July ; Bhamo, February ; and Shweegoon, near Moulraein, 

 August. Mr. P. Crowley, from Looshai and Tenasserim. We have type 

 specimens from Meetan and Taoo, Upper Tenasserim. Capt. C. T. Bingham 

 took it in the Thoungyeen Valle}' in Februar}' and October. jNlr. F. C. Godman has 

 it from E. Pegu, taken in March and April l)y My. W. Doherty, and from 

 Bankasoon, taken by Mr. A. 0. Hume. Mr. Leonardo Fea took it on Mount 

 Karen, 1000 feet, in April, on the Karen Hills in November, and at Palone in 

 August. Mr. W. Doherty records it from the " Karen Hills and Ruby-mines 

 Districts" (P. Z. S. 1891, 283). Capt. E. Y. Watson obtained "a single male iu 

 the Chin Hills 3500 feet, in the rainy season " (J. Bombay N.H.S. 1897, 6oG) ; 

 " Poungadaw, Upper Burma; Beelmg, Upper Tenasserim" (iiJ. 1886, <>) ; " Pauk, 

 October; Tilin, November" {id. 18y], 41). Dr. X. Manders records it as "a 

 common species in the Shan States, in the later rainy mouths" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 

 525). 



KALLIMA PHILARCHUS. 



Dry-season form (Plate 343, fig. 1, la, (^ ; \h, c, ? ). 



Amaihusia Philarchus, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Entom. p. 56, pi. 27, fig. 4, J' (1848). 

 Kallima Philarchus, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 15 ; Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 37, pi. 20, fig. 1, (J 

 (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 2G5 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside indigo-blue, sometimes changing to a greenish tint ; 

 cilia grey. Foreiriiuj with the apical area blue-black, contaiiiing a small opaque- 

 white subapical spot ; an oblique transverse discal broad pale blue somewhat curved 

 band, its outer edge sinuous and posteriorly crossed by a submarginal sinuous 

 blackish line, its inner edge marked by a black discocellular streak and an outer 

 lower broken streak extending to or beyond the lower median ; sometimes a minute 

 hyaline discal spot is present between the middle and lower median veiulets ; two 

 ill-defined dark streaks are also visible within the upper end of the cell. HiniJiriinj 

 with the apical area tinged with dusky -brown; a submarginal bluish-black sinuous 

 line and a less-defined lower marginal line ; a series of two or three outer-discal 

 obscurely-defined ocellate spots also apparent. Underside either purpui'escent 

 ochreous-brown or brownish-ochreous, with darker fascias and speckles, prominent 

 rib-line, and obscure discal ocelli, or the ground-colour is viuuceous-grey with pale 

 olive-brown fasciae, outei'-discal obscure ocelli, and less defined rib-line, or some- 

 times the ground-colour is more uniformly olivescent-grey. 



Female. Upperside similar to but paler than in male, the basal areas of a 

 greenish tint, the band on forewiug Avhitish, Underside pale olivescent-ochreous, 

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