106 NYMPH ALLD^. 



Genus ORINOMA. 



Orinoma, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, 1846, p. 14 ; M. fy de N. Butt. Ind. 

 i, 1883, p. 173 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 1. 



Type, 0. damans, Gray, from India. 



Range. The Himalayas, Assam, Burma, and Tenasserim. 



<$ 2 ' Wings comparatively long and narrow. Pore wing : 

 costa widely arched; termen slightly convex, oblique; dorsum 

 straight ; apex and tornus rounded ; discoidal cell slightly over 

 half length of wing ; upper and lower apices angulate ; upper and 

 middle discocellulars short, inclined inwards, lower long, deeply 

 angulated inwards in the middle ; veins 4 and 5 nearly parallel, 

 10 and 11 before apex of cell, 12 slightly inflated at base, median 

 vein normal. Hind wing pear-shaped ; termen strongly arched, 

 slightly scalloped ; vein 3 from just before apex of cell, 4 from 

 apex, strongly arched upwards, 6 closer to 7 than to 5. Antennae 

 filiform, less than half length of fore wing, club long and gradual ; 

 palpi normal, third joint long, not fringed with porrect hairs 

 anteriorly ; eyes hairy ; femora and tibia? slender, the former with 

 longish hair posteriorly. 



125. Orinoma damaris, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nep. 1846, p. 14, pi. 7, figs. 2, 

 2a; M. $ de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 174, pi. 13, fig. 32 tf ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 1, pi. 95, figs. 1, 1 a, S 2 • 



$ 2 • Upperside dusky black. Pore wing : basal half of cell rich 

 ochreous red, with a spot of black in 

 the middle of its anterior and pos- 

 terior margins, apical half of cell 

 black, with a pale diffuse centre in 

 its anterior half and a broad greenish- 

 white streak in its lower half ; inter- 

 space 1 greenish white, divided by 

 fine black oblique lines into three 

 short streaks and a terminal spot ; 

 interspaces 2-7 with two series of 

 discal short streaks and two series of 

 subterminal quadrate spots greenish 

 white. Hind wing : the cell with a 

 broad, transversely divided streak, 

 Fig. 25.— Orinoma damaris, $. the interspaces beyond with a series 



of streaks and spots greenish white, 

 the outer subterminal row of spots obsolescent. Underside 

 similar, the markings more distinct. Cilia of both wings alter- 

 nately black and white. Antennas black ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 above dark grey, the thorax in front with orange hairs : abdomen 

 beneath white, with fine black lines. 

 Exp. s 2 72-85 mm. (2-8-3-3"). 



Hob. The Himalayas from Kangra to Sikhim above 2000 feet ; 

 Bhutan ; Assam, the Khasi Hills ; Upper Burma, Euby Mines ; 

 Tenasserim. 



