236 



NYMPHALID^. 



of fore wing ; club well marked, long and gradual ; palpi sub- 

 porreet, rounded in front, third joint long, acute at apex ; eyes 

 hairy. 



263. Dilipa morgiana, Westivood (Apatura), in Dblday., Westw. $ 

 Hew. Gen. Di. Lep. ii, 1851, p. 355 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, 

 p. 48, pi. 20, fig. 86 cJ; Moore, Lep. Lid. iii, 1896-99, p. 12, 

 pi. 193, figs. 1, la-lc, rf$. 



d 1 . Upperside black, more or less suffused with rich golden 

 scales, especially dense at the base of cell of fore wing. Fore 

 wing with a broad bar at apex of cell, a broad band in two parts 

 in echelon across the disc, joined by a narrow obliquely trans- 

 verse spot in interspace 3, a large spot subterminally in the same 

 interspace, spreading upwards and downwards, and a diffuse patch 

 below the apex, golden yellow ; finally a small round white pre- 

 apical spot with a minute white dot below it. Hind wing : a very 

 broad transverse discal area, a subapical and a tornal terminal 

 patch golden yellow. Uaderside: fore wing with the markings 

 much as on the upperside, but the yellow of much greater extent, 

 filling the whole of the cell except a central black spot and joining 

 on to the discal band, which is continuous and very much broader 

 than on upperside, and is, in turn, joined on to the subterminal 

 spot in interspace 3 ; apex broadly golden light brown with a 

 lilacine streak and two white spots as on upperside ; a quadrate 

 lilacine spot at tornal angle. Hind wing pale ochreous brown, the 

 precostal area and posterior third of wing above and along dorsal 

 margin lilacine, an oblique spot in cell and a large patch, extending 

 from apex of wing to apex of cell and to vein 4, pale golden. — 

 2 • Similar, with similar markings both on the upper and under 

 sides, but on the former, except the subapical golden patch on the 

 fore wing and a narrow golden terminal margin on the hind wing, 

 the markings are lilacine white, narrower and more restricted, 

 the upper and lower portions of the discal band being quite 

 separate. On the underside, the base of the cell in the fore wing 

 is golden yellow, which colour extends along veins 3 and 4 and 

 joins a broad transverse patch connecting the upper and lower 

 white portions of the discal band ; a postdiscal sinuous line of 

 white spots in the interspaces, those in interspaces 1 and 3 the 

 largest, the apex of the wing broadly golden brown. Hind 

 wing pale ochreous brown as in the male, but the dorsal lilacine 

 area broader, spreading along the base of the wing and post- 

 discally to the apex, an anterior discal white patch, and the termen 

 below vein 7 broadly ochreous brown. Antennae brown, the club 

 ochraceous ; head, thorax and abdomen brown, beneath whitish. 



Exp. S 2 76-82 mm. (3-3-25"). 



Hub. The Himalayas from Dharmsala to Sikhim ; the hill-ranges 

 of Assam and Upper Burma. Nowhere common. 



