NYMPHALIN^. 63 



median at one-tliird before its end; submedian recurved: tindwing broad; apex 

 slightly angular, exterior margin waved, convex hindward, abdominal margin long ; 

 costal vein extending to apex, basal spur short, slightly curved; first subcostal 

 branch emitted at nearly half length of the cell ; cell open ; median branches ^vide 

 apart, lower emitted opposite to base of radial ; submedian curved ; internal short, 

 much curved at the base. Body somewhat slender ; palpi ascending, finely pilose ; 

 second joint reaching to top of the head, third joint short, slender, almost cylindrical; 

 legs slender ; antenna with a gradually formed slender club. 

 Type, C. Aoris. — 



CIRROCHHOA THAIS (Plate 32, Fig. 2, 2a). 



Papilio Thais, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. p. 64 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. p. 149 (1793). 



Cirrochroa Thais, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 116j Moore, Proo. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1872, p. 557. 



Male and female. Upperside pale ferruginous, glossed with green at the base : 

 fiDrewing with a prominent medial transverse black line, which is oblique and zigzag 

 in front of the cell and lunular hindward ; exterior margin broadly ferruginous-black 

 and traversed by a ferruginous sinuous line ; a dusky streak lining the discocellular 

 vein : hindwing with a large quadrate white spot on anterior margin, from which 

 proceeds a medial transverse black lunular line; a discal row of six small black 

 spots, two submarginal lunular lines and a third outer line. Underside pale olive- 

 brown in male, ferruginous-brown in the female ; with a transverse medial irregularly 

 dentated purple-white glossy band on both wings, the outer margin of the band being 

 straight and the dentations disappearing towards anal angle of hindwing ; a transverse 

 row of black spots on hindwing smaller than on the upperside; marginal lunular 

 lines indistinct and suffused with glaucous-purple. 



Expanse, S 2f, S 2^ inches. 



" Taken at Galle and Kandy " {Wade). 



CIRROCHROA LANKA (Plate 32, Fig. 4, 4a). 

 Cirrochroa Lanka, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 557. 



Male. Upperside bright ferruginous : forewing with a medial transverse black 

 line, which is oblique in front of the cell and nearly obsolete hindward ; a marginal 

 black band traversed by an inner row of ferruginous dentate lunules : hindwing with 

 the quadrate white spot on the anterior margin large, the medial transverse line from 

 it faintly defined ; the discal row of black spots, inner submarginal line indistinct, 

 outer bmular line and marginal line prominent. Underside dull ferruginous, some- 



