NYMPEALJNjE. 35 



SYMPHJEDRA NAIS. 



PafUio Nais, Forster, Novse Spec. Ins. Cent. i. p. 73 (1771). 



Papilio Thyelia, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 142 (1793) ; Donovan, Ins. of India, pi. 31, f. 3. 

 Symphcedra Thyelia, Doubleday and Hewits., Gen. of D. Lep. pi. 42, f. 6 ; Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. 

 Brit. Mus. p. 87. 



Male and female. TJpperside fulvous-red : forewing with a broad black disco- 

 cellular spot, a contiguous discal spot, an oblique subapical streak, and a transverse 

 submargmal and marginal narrow lunular band, tlie two joined by streaks on the 

 veins : hindwing with a large black medial costal spot, a submarginal row of small 

 round spots, and broad margini^l band, the black sKghtly ascending the veins. Ciha 

 alternated with white. Underside brownish-ochreous ; forewing with the discal area 

 bright ochreous, two discoidal black ringlet-marks bordered between by white, a black 

 contiguous discal spot, an obhque short subapical white macular band bordered 

 inwardly with dark brown, followed by lower submarginal black lunules : hindwing 

 with transverse medial discal band, which is sometimes broken or consisting only of 

 a costal and lower spots ; two small discoidal red-centred spots, and a submarginal 

 row of small black spots. 



Expanse, ^ 2f , 9 2| inches. 



Larva dark green, with ten pair of long green laterally-projecting very delicate 

 branched spines ; a dorsal row of dark blue-bordered red spots. Pupa green, thick, 

 keeled along the back, broadly triangular across the middle, a black-bordered pale 

 band across the triangular back and some thoracic spots. 



Genus DISCOPHORA. 



Discopliorh, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 12, f. 3 (1836) ; Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 329 (1851). 



Wings short, broad ; forewing triangular ; costa arched, apex acuj;e, exterior 

 margin slightly oblique and straight, posterior margin straight; costal vein extending 

 to near the apex ; first and second subcostal branches contiguous and emitted near 

 end of the cell, first anastomed with costal at two-thirds its length, second trifurcate 

 near the apex ; radials from upper end of the cell, the upper much curved ; disco- 

 cellulars bent inward at their middle, the lower oblique ; cell broad ; median veins 

 wide apart and at equal distances ; submedian curved at its base : hindwing convex 

 externally in male, in female more or less sinuous and with a slight angle at apex 

 and in middle of posterior margin ; abdominal margin long ; costal vein much curved 

 its entire length, terminating at the apex and with a short curved basal spur ; two 

 subcostal branches and radial at equal distances apart ; cell open in both sexes ; 

 upper median branch much curved ; submedian and internal veins near the margin, 



F 2 



