294 NTMPHALID.2E. 



very short, middle strongly concave, lower slightly oblique ; veins 

 3 and 4 approximate ; vein 8 from middle of 7 ; veins 10 and 11 

 free. Hind wing pear-shaped, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, 

 termen even or slightly scalloped, tornus rounded, dorsum arched ; 

 cell open, vein 7 closer to 6 than to 8. Antennae typically about 

 half length of fore wing, in all Indian forms much longer than 

 half ; club long, narrow and gradual ; palpi short, moderately 

 broad in front, studded with lax scales and soft subporrect hairs, 

 third joint short ; eyes hairy, in two forms naked ; tibiae and tarsi 

 of intermediate and posterior legs spinose. 



Key to the forms o/Liminitis. 



A. Eyes hairy. 



a. Broad discal hand crossing wings on upper- 



side, yellow on fore, silvery white on hind 



wing L. zayla, p. 294. 



b. Broad discal band crossing wings on upperside 



concolorous throughout. 



a'. This hand pale green on upperside L. daraxa, p. 295. 



b' . This band white on upperside. 



a 2 . Discal band continuous throughout, not 



macular anteriorly L. dudu, p. 29G. 



b 2 . Discal band not continuous, macular an- 

 teriorly, the upper three spots on fore 

 wing well separate , i, zidema, p. 297. 



B. Eyes not hairy. 



a. Discal hand on hind wing very broad, about 



one-third length of wing L. trioena, p. 297. 



b. Discal band on hind wing comparatively 



narrow, not one-quarter length of wing .... L. ligyes, p. 298. 



311. Liminitis zayla (PI. VI, fig. 45), Boubleday, in Bblday., Westw. 

 Sf Hew. Gen. Di. Lep. ii, 1850, p. 276, pi. 35, fig. 4 ; de N. Butt. 

 Ind. ii, 1886, p. 159 ; Moore (Parasarpa), Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, 

 p. 147, pi. 248, figs. 1,1 a, lb, tf $ . 



c? 9 • Upperside olivescent brown, basal area of wings 

 sprinkled with golden scales. Fore wing : two or three circular 

 loop-like slender black marks at base of interspace 1 ; the cell 

 crossed by a median and an apical pair and an intermediate short 

 black line, the space between the pairs of lines ochraceous ; a 

 broad yellow discal band, its inner margin sinuous but sharply 

 defined, its outer margin straight ; above this band a yellow 

 streak along costa to near apex, joining a sinuous, narrow, trans- 

 verse, postdiscal ferruginous-red band, traversed by a series of brown 

 broad lunules, and followed by a subterminal dark brown broad 

 line ; a narrower outer pale line and a terminal margin of the 

 brown ground-colour. Between the discal and postdiscal bands 

 the ground-colour forms a broad band darkening outwardly. 

 Hind wing : basal area with some obscure black slender short 

 lines ; a discal straight band in continuation of the band on the fore 



