316 NTMPHALID.il. 



of fore wing fuliginous black : postdiscal band on kind wing 

 margined inwardly with pale blue, bearing a superposed series 

 of black spots, the pale blue extended along the veins crossing 

 the band ; both fore and hind wing with a prominent terminal 

 narrow black band ; the cilia white alternated with brown. 

 Antennae black ; head with a spot of golden ochraceous between 

 the eyes ; thorax with a band or two of bluish spots anteriorly 

 and posteriorly ; abdomen transversely and narrowly barred with 

 bluish white ; beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen pure 

 white ; in the $ the abdomen has a double lateral row of minute 

 black dots. 



Exp. 6 $ 60-76 mm. (2-38-3"). 



Jlab. Throughout the Himalayas ; the hills of Central, Eastern 

 and Western India ; Southern India, but not, so far as is known, 

 Ceylon ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; extending to Siam and the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



Larva. " Cylindrical, of equal thickness throughout its length ; 

 head larger than the following segment, black, thickly covered 

 with obtuse castaneous spines ; body pale green ; beneath and legs 

 castaneous, armed with a subdorsal series of long and a spiracnlar 

 series of shorter spined castaneous tubercles, one in each series 

 on each segment, those on the fourth, sixth, eighth, tenth and 

 thirteenth segments in the subdorsal series shorter than the others, 

 spiracles black." (de JViceville.) 



Pupa. " Brown, richly gilt, head ending in two points, thorax 

 foliaceous/' (de Niceville.) 



Food-plants recorded, GlocJiidion lanceolatum and G. velutinum. 



332. Athyma larymna, Doubledaij (Liniinitis), in Dblday., Westw. f 

 Hew. Gen. Di. Lep. \\, 1850, pi. 35, tig. 1 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 

 1886, p. 167 ; Moore (Tacola), Lep. 2nd. iii, 1896-99, p, 192, 

 | pi. 262, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, <J$. 



d 2 • Upperside black, in $ very dark brownish black, with 

 pure white markings. Fore wing : discoidal streak divided into 

 four, the basal two divisions very narrow, the intervening portion 

 forming a small round spot, the preapical and apical portions of 

 the streak broad, triangular, very acute at their apices ; a discal, 

 macular, broadly interrupted band, composed as follows : an 

 elongate spot in interspace 1 a, an outwardly conical, inwardly 

 truncate or slightly emarginate large spot in interspace 1, an 

 oval large spot in interspace 2, no spots in interspace 3, elongate 

 narrow spots in interspaces 4, 5 and 6 respectively, with two 

 slender streaks above them on costa ; the posterior three spots iu 

 an oblique line from middle of dorsum towards apex of wing, the 

 anterior three in an oblique line from just beyond middle of costa 

 towards upper portion of termen ; beyond these a sinuous series 

 of transverse, short, somewhat lunular lines in interspaces 1, 2, 3, 

 5 and 0, and a pale subterminal broad line. Hind wing : a trans- 

 verse subbasal band in continuation of the discal band on the fore 



