SYMBEEXTHIA. 



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Wet-season form. — c? . Upperside black, with orange-yellow 

 markings as follows : — Eore wing : discoidal streak clavate, bi- 

 indentate above ; a contiguous spot at base of interspace 3 ; 

 a short, outwardly oblique band from middle of dorsum contracted 

 in the middle ; another outwardly oblique, somewhat macular, 

 short, broad, preapical band from beyond middle of costa to 

 interspace 4, with two small spots above it in interspaces 5 and 6. 



Hind wing : a very broad sub- 

 basal transverse band narrow at 

 the costal margin, a postdiscal 

 narrower similar band contract- 

 ed into a line towards costal 

 margin, sometimes traversed by a 

 line of black spots and a subter- 

 minal very slender line. Under- 

 side ochraceous orange with 

 numerous spots and lines of 

 ferruginous, that form on fore 

 Fig. QS.—SymbrentMa lucina. \. wing a short, outwardly oblique 



streak not extending beyond 

 interspace 3, and on hind wing a subbasal transverse streak in 

 continuation of the above streak on the fore wing ; also on both 

 wings a series of obscure postdiscal cone-shaped marks, irrorated 

 and rendered indistinct on the hind wing by a large patch of 

 pink scales turning to a bluish lunule in interspace 3 ; fore wing 

 with a ferruginous, hind wing with a pale yellow subterminal 

 line. Antennae black, ochraceous at apex ; head with ferruginous 

 pubescence ; thorax and abdomen black on upperside, ochraceous 

 beneath. — § . Similar, the orange markings broader and somewhat 

 paler on the upperside. 



Dry-season form differs in both sexes as follows : — The orange 

 markings on the upperside broader and paler in the middle, the 

 short bands on the anterior and posterior portions of the wing 

 coalescing. Underside paler, all the dark markings less clearly 

 dehned than in the wet- season form. 



Exp. S 2 46-50 mm. (1-8 to nearly 2"). 



Hab. The Himalayas from Simla to Sikhim ; Assam ; Burma ; 

 Tenasserim, extending to the Malayan Subregion. 



Larva. " Body cylindrical. Head black, flattened in front, 

 vertex broad and sharply depressed in the middle, minutely hairy, 

 cheeks slightly tuberculous ; third to the last segment armed with 

 a dorsal and four lateral rows of black, rigid, branched spines on 

 each side ; segments fuliginous black, second segment with a 

 slender pale ochreous dorsal line, third to last segment with two 

 sublateral rows of small pale ochreous spots." 



Pupa. " Pale purpurescent ochreous ; thorax and abdomen later- 

 ally protuberant in front ; with a thoracic and anterior-dorsal 

 pointed prominence ; abdominal segment with a row of dorsal and 

 lateral small points ; head-piece projecting and widely cleft."* 

 {Moore.) 



