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NYMPHALID^E. 



Fig. 53. 

 Euthalia phemius, J . 



298. Euthalia phemius, Doubleday (Itanus), in Dblday., Westw. f 

 Heio. Gen. Di. Lep. 1848, pi. 41, fig. 4 c?; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 

 1886, p. 218; Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, ] 896-99, p. 123, pi. 238, 

 figs. 1, la-lc ? 6 2- 

 S . Upperside brown. Fore wing : the basal half and a broad 

 postdiscal transverse band of a darker brown than the ground- 

 colour ; cellular area with six short transverse blackish-brown 



lines, in pairs, the space between 

 each pair conspicuously paler ; two 

 spots at base of interspace 3, and 

 a series of slender lines above them 

 in interspaces 4, 5 and 6, dingy 

 white, the upper three lines broadly 

 interrupted, their apices forming 

 mere dots. Hind wing: basal half 

 uniform ; a postdiscal pale blue band, 

 broad in interspace 1, gradually 

 narrowing to a point in interspace 5, 

 followed by a narrow subterminal 

 white band and a slender black 

 terminal line. Underside pale 

 ochraceous brown, the terminal 

 margins of both fore and hind wing- 

 somewhat broadly pale lilac, bounded 

 outwardly by an anticiliary black 

 line ; cilia white. Fore wing : a small circular loop at base of 

 interspace 1, and five short sinuous transverse lines in cellular 

 area black ; white spots at base of interspace 3 and the streaks 

 above them as on upperside ; the postdiscal broad brown transverse 

 band of the upperside showing as a series of much narrower 

 diffuse transverse spots. Hind wing with four short transverse 

 black lines in cellular area, and slender oval black loops at base of 

 interspaces 6 and 7. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark ; 

 beneath, the antennae excepted, ochraceous. — $ . Upperside paler 

 brown than in c? , the tornus of the fore and the terminal half of 

 the hind wing still paler. Tore wing : cellular transverse black 

 lines as in the tf , followed by a broad, very oblique, discal white 

 band from costa to near termen at apex of interspace 2, two pre- 

 apical white spots and the dark brown postdiscal transverse band 

 as in the <5 . Hind wing : two transverse short black lines in cellular 

 area and a postdiscal series of obscure transverse short broad bars 

 in the interspaces. Underside : ground-colour and terminal lilac 

 border to the wings as in the S , but very much paler, the oblique 

 white discal band and preapical spots as on the upperside ; the 

 basal and cellular markings and postdiscal transverse dark diffuse 

 bands similar to those in the <$ . Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen paler brown than in the cT • 

 Exp. 6 2 64-84 mm. (2-53-3-35"). 



Hab. Sikhim; Bhutan, through the hill-ranges of Assam, 

 Burma, and Tenasserim to the Malay Peninsula, extending to Siain 

 and China. 



