52 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



NIPHANDA CYMBIA. 

 Plate 651, figs. 3, <? , 3a, ? , 3b, <J . 



Niplianda (?) ci/mhia, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 76, pi. 9, figs. 8, ^ , 8a, 9 ■ 

 Staudinger, Es. Schmett. p. 270, pi. 94, <? (1888). de Niceville, Butt, of ludia, iii. p. 132, 

 Frontispiece, figs. 130, <? , 131, ? (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 296. Bingham, 

 Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 370 (1907). 



Niphanda plinioides, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 524, pi. 48, fig. 8, 5 • 



Niplianda tessellata, de Niceville (nee Moore), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1882, p. 61. Ehves, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 572. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violet colour, sliining, costal and outer marginal 

 liues of both wings blackish-brown, edged inwardly with brown, the edging deeper on the 

 hindwing, which has a sub-terminal indistinct series of brown spots with lunules above 

 them, thin lunules closing all the cells. Underside dull greyish-white, markings dark 

 chocolate-brown. Forewing with the base suffused, this suffusion running along the 

 costa in small angular patches; a broad sub-basal streak from the hinder margin, 

 narrowing upwards but not reaching the costa, a post-medial outwardly oblique broken 

 band of three spots, the upper one closing the cell, the other two touching each other 

 in interspaces 1 and 2 ; two sub-apical short outwardly oblique bands close together, 

 the outermost one twice as thick as the other. Hindwing with three large, nearly 

 round black spots ringed with white, one sub-costal beyond the middle, one 

 immediately below it, and a third also sub-costal, nearer the base, all the outer markings 

 chocolate-brown, all ringed with white, a spot near the base, a row of three below the 

 inner black spot, a long cell lunule with a spot touching its lower end, a discal 

 outwardly curved series of spots, a series of short streaks beyond it ; both wings with 

 terminal, very fine black line, sub-terminal spots, the lowest two in each wing geminate, 

 on the hindwing a third at the anal angle, all these spots enclosed by a line of lunular 

 marks, the spot in interspace 2 of the forewing, and all the spots of the hindwing more 

 or less black, the two at the apex of the latter larger than the others. Cilia brown 

 with white patches. Antennas black ringed with white ; head and body blackish-brown 

 above, whitish beneath. 



Female. Upperside dull pale smoky brown. Forewing with a black bar at the 

 end of the cell, a rather broad blackish outer marginal band, a discal irregular narrow 

 band, very indistinct. Hindwing more suffused with brown than the fore^aug, 

 indications of an indistinct thin discal band, followed by a series of dull whitish spots, 

 both wings with brown terminal line, on the hindwing edged inwardly by a fine white 

 line, followed by a series of black spots, ringed with whitish. Cilia grey without white 

 patches. Underside witli the colour and markings very similar to those of the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ lj% to l-j^ inches. 



