NYMFHALIN^E. (Gvwv asgyssixa.) 195 



slender, hairy ; forelegs of female scaly, femur hairy beneath, tarsus slender, 

 spines slender ; antennce slender, with a short obtuse club ; eyes hairy. 



Type.— T. Clarissa. 



Laeva and Pupa. — Unknown. 



TERINOS CLARISSA (Plate 359, fig. 1, la, J). 



Terinos Clarissa, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 9, fig. 4 (1836). de Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. 

 p. 39, pi. 2:!, fig. 101, S (1«86). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich dai*k purplish violaceous-brown. Forewing with 

 a broad darker brown vdrety pntclh of raised scales occupying the lower discal area 

 obliquely from the second discoidal veinlet to posterior margin. Hindwing with a 

 similar but smaller apical velrefy imtch of raised scales, the lower outer margin of 

 the wing being broadly ochreous and bearing two series of dark purple-brown 

 lunules, the outer series being slender and more or less obsolescent. Underside 

 dull ferruginous-brown, marked with seven or eight rather indistinct glossy violet- 

 blue transverse irregular sinuous lines. Foreicing also with the outer-discal line 

 lunularly bordered with dull ochreous, and having a prominent subapical pale violet 

 oval spot. Illndiviiig also with outer blue lines lunularly bordered with ochreous, 

 and having a medial discal series of five round rich brown spots bordered with 

 ochreous, the false end of the cell marked by a bluish-white bar. 



Female. Upperside paler purplish violaceous-brown. Foretving crossed by 

 four darker violaceous diffused sinuous discal fasciae, each being angulated near 

 upper end, the submarginal fascia slightly bordered posteriorly by pale obscure 

 ochreous lunules. Hindwing with the lower outer margin broadly ochreous, 

 traversed by a broader innei* series of dark brown lunules than in male, and slender 

 outer lunular line. Underside brighter ferruginous than in male, with similar 

 transverse irregular sinuous pale violet-blue lines. Hindwing with similar medial 

 discal series of dark spots. 



Expanse, S 3n), ? Si-q inches. 



Habitat. — Upper Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Singajwre; Borneo; Java. 



DiSTKiBUTioN. — " A single male, as described and figured by Mr. de Niceville 

 {I.e.), was taken by Capt. C. T. Bingham at Popee, Thoungyeen, Dpper Tenasserim, 

 in September. Mr. A. R. Wallace records it from Singapore. A male, labelled 

 Siara, and a female from Java, is in the British Museum Collection. The type was 

 described from a Java specimen. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 359, figs. 1, la, are from a Borneau 

 "example of the male. 



Indo-Malayan Species. — Terinos LmhniUa, Staudinger, MS. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



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