SEPHISA. 245 



costa slightly arched ; termen rounded, scalloped ; tornus well 

 marked; dorsum convex, slightly emarginate above tornus; cell 

 open. Antennae long, massive ; club gradual, slightly flattened, 

 blunt at apex; palpi short, porrect, third joint short, conical, 

 acute at apex ; eyes naked ; intermediate and posterior legs short, 

 femora and tibiae subequal. 



Sephisa is very closely allied to Euripus ; the points of difference 

 are, however, noted in the key to the genera. 



Key to tlie forms of Sephisa. 



a. Discal series of spots on upperside of fore wing 



in both sexes orange-yellow S. dichroa, p. 245. 



b. Discal series of spots on upperside of fore wing 



in <$ white, in $ white with lower spots some- 

 times blue S. chandra, p. 246. 



270. Sephisa dichroa, Kottar (Limenitis), HiigeVs Kaschmir, iv, 1844, 

 pt. 2, p. 429, pi. 8, figs. 1,2: tie K. Butt. hid. ii, 1880, p. 47, 

 pi. 20, fig. 93 tf ; Moore, Lep. Ind. hi, 1896-99, p. 26, pi. 197, 

 figs. 1, 1 a-1 e, $ 2 > larva & pupa. 



(5 . Upperside black ; fore wing with the following tawny-yellow 

 markings : an oblique spot with sinuous margins across cell, a short 

 streak in middle of interspace 1 a, four large spots round a quadrate 

 black area on the disc, three elongate oblique spots above them, not 

 reaching the costa, three subapical smaller spots and a more or less 

 obscure, sometimes partially obsolescent series of subterminal spots. 

 Hind wing : the dorsal margin to vein 1 dull ochraceous ; a broad 

 streak in the cell and narrower streaks in the interspaces with a 

 curved subterminal series of more or less quadrate spots beyond 

 rich tawny yellow ; lastly, two dusky-black spots in cell, an inner 

 bluish small spot in interspace 2 and a line of obscure pale 

 terminal markings. Underside similar, with similar markings, but 

 the terminal series of markings on both fore and hind wing more 

 distinct ; the cell-spot and four large discal spots on the fore wing, 

 the dorsal margin and subterminal series of spots on the hind 

 wing only yellow ; the rest of the markings bluish white, with, in 

 addition, some bluish-white spots at the base of the wings and 

 similarly-coloured streaks at the apex of the fore wing. Antennae 

 black ; head, thorax and abdomen above black, beneath bluish 

 white. — 2 similar, the markings paler, the subapical three and 

 generally the subterminal series of spots on fore wing white. 



Exp. S $ 64-77 mm. (2-54-3-1"). 



Hab. The Himalayas from Kashmir to Kumaun. 



Larva. Green, attenuate towards anal segment, latter with two 

 apparently pointed tails, head with two pale ochraceous branched 

 processes, the anterior segments with two subparallel pale yellow 

 dorsal lines, followed on the posterior segments with oblique 

 streaks of the same colour ; the streaks on the 6th and 9th seg- 

 ments end in a pair of pointed flaps or projections with a 

 crimson spot between them. 



