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NYMPHALIDiE. 



and abdomen dark brown, somewhat ochraceous on the abdomen , 

 beneath very pale ochraceous. — $ . Upperside black. Eore wing 

 with the following yellow, sometimes orange, markings : — a 

 streak in lower half of cell produced well beyond its apex and 

 interrupted only by the black margins of the discocellulars ; a 

 spot below its apex at base of interspace 3 ; a much-curved inter- 

 rupted discal band of spots (three anteriorly outwardly oblique, 

 three posteriorly inwardly oblique), no spot in interspace 3 ; a 

 subterminal incomplete irregular band from vein 5 to dorsum, 

 and two preapical spots, these last white. Hind wing with a 

 subbasal and a postdiscal orange-yellow band. Underside purplish 

 red shaded with pale purple ; the cell of fore wing yellow, with 

 two transverse bands of the ground-colour, the yellow curved 

 discal band and subterminal band less distinct than on the upper- 

 side. Hind wing with the yellow subbasal and postdiscal bands 

 as on the upperside, but less well-defined. 



Exp. S 2 78-92 mm. (3-07-3-62"). 



Hab. Sikhim. 



277. Abrota jumna, Moore, P. Z. S. I860, p. 764, d only ; de N. 

 Butt. hid. ii, 1886, p. 184, pi. 24, fig. 110, <$ only; Moore, hep. 

 hid. iii, 1896-99, p. 83, pi. 219, figs. % 2 a, J 2 ■ 

 Abrota ganga, Moore, Cat. hep. Mux. E. I. C. i, 1857, p. 178, 

 pi. 6 a, fig. 1, 2 only. 



S 2 • Closely resembles A. ganga in both sexes and also on the 

 upper and under sides, but in the <S the ground-colour on the 

 upperside is paler, and on the hind wing the discal and subterminal 

 bands are very close together, separated only by a sinuous line of 

 the ground-colour. In the $ the yellow bands on the upperside 

 are distinctly broader, especially on the hind wing, so that the 

 black interspaces of the ground-colour are conspicuously narrowed. 

 Underside in both sexes similar to the underside in A. ganga. 



Exp. <$ 2 80-98 mm. (3-13-3-88"). 



Hah. Sikhim ; Bhutan. 



Genus SYMPILEDEA. 



Sympksedra, Hiibner, Verz. beh. Schmett. 1816, p. 39 ; de N. Butt. 



hid. ii, 1886, p. 185. 

 Lexias, Boisduval, Voy. Astr., hep. 1832, p. 125. 

 Adolias, pt., Boisduval, Spec. Gen. hep. \, 1836, pis. 3 & 8. 



Type, S. ceropus, Linn., from the Moluccas. 



Range. Indo-Malayan Region. 



<$ 2 • Fore wing short, broad, triangular ; costa strongly arched, 

 apex obtusely pointed, termen straight, tornus obtuse, dorsum 

 straight ; cell closed, veins 6 and 7 from a point, hence upper 

 discocellular nearly obsolete, middle strongly concave, short, lower 

 three times as long as the middle one, slender, concave ; vein 9 out 

 of 7 from opposite the middle of the costa, 10 and 11 free, 10 from 

 upper third of subcostal, 11 from middle of subcostal, anastomosed 

 with 12 towards apex. Hind wing subqnadrate, costa arched, 



