232 NTMPHALIDJE. 



above it. Both fore and hind wings with a somewhat diffuse 

 lunular subterminal line outwardly bordered with obscure whitish 

 marks in the interspaces. Antennae dark brown ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen ochraceous, paler beneath. — 2 similar, larger, 

 usually without the iridescent blue on upperside. 



Exp. 6 2 ^8-84 mm. (2-69-3-3"). 



Hab. Western China, extending into the most eastern parts of 

 the North Shan States, Upper Burma. 



257. Apatura sordida, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 765, pi. 41, fig. 2 S; 



de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 52 ; Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 

 p. 340; Moore (Clitoria), Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 10, pi. 192, 

 •figs. 2, 2a, 26, cT$. 



$ . Upperside brown. Fore wing darkening towards the apex, 

 the apical two-thirds much darker brown, an oblique discal white 

 fascia from interspace 6 to tornal angle formed of more or less 

 rectangular spots ; a small spot beyond in interspace 4 and two 

 preapical spots white. Hind wing uniform, a lunular subterminal 

 dark line inwardly bordered by a row of dark spots, and a terminal 

 row of pale lunules. Underside pale brownish grey. Fore wing 

 with the discal band and spots more or less as on the upperside ; a 

 black, blind, yellow-ringed ocellus, with a dark brown shade in the 

 interspace below it ; ocellus and brown shading bordered inwardly 

 by white; a subterminal dark line, and some diffuse white marks on 

 terinen below apex and at tornus. Hind wing with an incomplete 

 discal white band and a series of white spots beyond, ending in a 

 well-marked, broadly yellow -ringed, blue-centred, black ocellus in 

 interspace 2 ; ?astly, a subterminal dark line as in the fore wing. 

 Antennae brown, paler below the club ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 brown, paler beneath. — $ similar ; the hind wing is more rounded 

 and the oblique discal band on the fore wing is very much broader. 



Exp. <$ 2 G8-80 mm. (2-69-3-15"). 



Hab. Sikhim. 



258. Apatura chevana, Moore (Athyma), P. Z. S. 1865, p. 763, pi. 41, 



fig. 1 S ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 52 ; Elwes, Trans. Ent, Soc. 

 1888, p. 340; Moore (Mimathyma), Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 8, 

 pi. 192, figs. 1, la, J- 



<5 2 ♦ Upperside very dark brownish black, with the following 

 somewhat creamy-white markings : — Fore wing : a slightly clavate 

 anteriorly notched streak in thediscoidal area, followed by two elon- 

 gate spots, a curved irregular discal series of large and small spots, 

 the posterior three the largest, a subterminal sinuous band of spots, 

 and a terminal line of smaller dots. Hind wing : a subbasal trans- 

 verse very broad band, a postdiscal sinuous row of large spots, and 

 a terminal line of very small, somewhat obscure short, transversely 

 linear spots. In the 3 the disc of the fore wing on either side of 

 the white spots is suffused with brilliant iridescent blue. Under- 

 side pearly bluish white, the white spots and markings as on 

 upperside but less well defined; the brown bands on both fore and 

 hind wing as in A. ambica, but the disc of the fore wing on either 



