262 NYMPHALID2E. 



dark brown. Hind wing with the usual slender basal black 

 markings; a sinuous, comparatively broad, macular transverse discal 

 band followed by a faintly marked postdiscal dark diffuse band 

 as on the upperside. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as 

 in the S • 



Exp. 6 2 74-97 mm. (2-92-3-83"). 



Hah. Sikhim ; Nepal ; Assam, the Naga Hills. 



284. Dophla sahadeva, Moore (Adolias), Trans. Ent. Soc. new ser. v, 

 1859, p. 80, pi. 8, fig. 3 ; de N. (Euthalia) Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, 

 p. 199 ; Moore (Mahaldia), Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 132, pi. 241, 

 figs. 1, 1 a-\ c, & pi. 242, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, <S $ . 



Race narayana. 

 Euthalia narayana, Grose-Smith fy Kirby,Rhop. Exot. 1891, Eutk. 

 p. 6, pi. 2, n>s. 4, 5, $ ; Moore (Mahaldia), Lep. Ind. iii, 1896- 

 99, p. 133, pi. 242, figs. 2, 2 a, $ • 



S $ . Shape of fore wing differs from that of the typical form 

 in the apex, which, though rounded, is not produced or subfalcate ; 

 termen only very slightly concave. Termen of both fore and 

 hind wing, but especially of the latter, 

 conspicuously scalloped. S . Upperside 

 dark velvety green. Fore wing : a slender 

 black circular loop at base of interspace 1 ; 

 a basal, two medial, and two apical, vel- 

 vety-black, short, sinuous transverse lines 

 in cell, the space between the medial and 

 apical pair of lines brow T nish yellow ; a 

 broad, brownish-yellow, oblique discal 

 band from interspace 6 to 2 divided by 

 the dark veins and outwardly margined 

 by a pale area traversed by an ante- 

 riorly broad, posteriorly narrow, dark 

 postdiscal band, above which are two 

 obliquely placed subcostal spots before 

 Fig. 51, apex of wing, the lower spot the larger 



Dophla sahadeva. an( j wn ite. Hind wing : a slender loop- 



like black mark at apex of cell ; a 

 discal, outwardly pale-bordered series of from three to six 

 detached brownish-yellow spots, decreasing in size posteriorly, 

 and a black lunular postdiscal transverse fascia ; cilia white 

 alternated with brown. Underside ochraceous green. Pore wing 

 with the markings much as on the upperside ; interspaces 1 a 

 and 1 purplish black, joining on to the postdiscal black fascia, 

 which is diffused and ill-defined. Hind wing : the usual loop- 

 like slender black markings at base, the discal transverse series of 

 spots as on the upperside, but pale green, and the black post- 

 discal transverse fascia reduced to a series of diffuse spots. — 

 The 2 differs from the <5 as follows: — Upperside: ground- 

 olour darker green. Fore wing : the discal baud pure white, 

 the postdiscal dark fascia macular. Hind wing : ground-colour 



