LIPHYBINM 251 



LIPHYRA BRASSOLIS. 



Plate 701, figs. 1, (J, la, ?, lb, $. 



Liphyra hrassolis, Westwood, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1864, p. 31 ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 470. Butler, 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1877, p. 546. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 204, pi. 22, fig. 18, ? 

 (1884). Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 269, pi. 94, $ (nee female) (1888). de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, iii. p. 491, pi. 29, fig. 243, ? (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 452, 

 woodcut (1907). 



Sterosis robusta, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 219, pi. 27, figs. 10, 11, ? (1865). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing, black, the basal half of interspace 1, an 

 oblique spot beyond the apex of cell, the costal margin somewhat broadly along the 

 basal half, strongly narrowed towards the apex, and the cilia ochraceous-yellow. The 

 yellow in the basal half of interspace 1 narrows outwardly, anteriorly spreads slightly 

 into the cell and base of interspace 2, and posteriorly to the doi-sal margin near the 

 base of wing. Ilindiving, ochraceous-yellow with the following black markings : a 

 broad streak from the base of wing in the cell widened outwardly, that leaves an anterior 

 small portion below the base of sub-costal vein and a posterior small portion along apical 

 half of median vein of the ground colour ; terminal margin very broadly black, that 

 colour, however, not extended to the apex or tornus ; between this marginal band and 

 the cellular streak is an irregular patch connecting them. Cilia ochraceous, abdominal 

 fold paler ochraceous. Underside, dull earthy ochraceous, paler along the dorsal area 

 and at apex of forewing and on the termen near apex of hindwing. Forewing, a 

 medial large irregular brownish-black patch that occupies apical half of the discoidal 

 cell and the basal thirds of the interspaces 3 and 4. Hindwing, costal margin with 

 transverse mottlings of reddish-brown. In some specimens the ground colour on the 

 underside is pale dull purplish with shadings of darker purple ; on the forewing the 

 medial is black and ochraceous-yellow. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen 

 ochraceous ; beneath, in some specimens slightly paler. 



Female. Upperside. Fore and hind wings, rich ochraceous, marking on the latter 

 wing as in the male, but the black streak in cell and the large spot or patch connecting to 

 the broad area of black along the termen much smaller, often divided into two detached 

 spots ; on the forewing the black is reduced to a large median patch that occupies the 

 apical half of the cell, beyond and below it, the bases of interspaces 5, 6, 10 and 11, the 

 basal third (sometimes more) of interspaces 3 and 4, and a very broad, inwardly irregularly 

 concave band that is produced inwardly along the terminal half of the dorsal margin 

 and shortly along veins 2, 3 and 4. Underside as in the male, but generally the 

 ground colour pale. In some specimens the whole hindwing is with mottlings of brown 

 such as are present in all specimens of both sexes along the costal margin of that wing. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male. 



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