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^YMPHALID^. 



389. Symbrenthia hypselis, GodaH (Vanessa), Encyrt. Meth. ix, 



Suppl. 1823, p. 818 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 241. 

 Symbrenthia cotanda, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 569, pi. 66, fig. 9 tf ; 



de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 242 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, 



p. 114, pi. 322, figs. 1, 1 a-\ h, d $ . 

 Symbrenthia sinis, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. vi, 1891, 



p. 357, pi. F, fig. 9 J. 



Wet-season form. — -6 $. Upperside black, with deep fulvous- 

 red markings of a darker shade than in S. lucina. Tore wing: 

 discoidal streak broad, clavate, its anterior and posterior margins 

 irregularly uneven ; a short, broad, outwardly oblique band from 

 beyond the middle of the dorsum to vein 3, and a preapical 

 irregular spot, across the middle of interspaces 5 and 6. Hind 

 wing : a subbasal broad transverse band in continuation of: the 

 short oblique band on the fore wing ; an equally broad postdiscal 

 band narrowing anteriorly, not extending beyond vein 5, and 

 a subterrainal narrow line from vein 1 to 4. Underside white 

 washed with pale yellow, sometimes pearly white, with darker 

 ochraccous blotches in cell and at apices of interspaces 1 and 2 on 

 the fore wing and near apex of hind wing ; the black of the upper- 

 side replaced by tesselations of black with the pale ochraceous 

 white ground-colour between them. Tore wing : the discoidal 

 streak not well-defined, an inner and an outer slender subterminal 

 broken black line. Hind wing with a prominent postdiscal series 

 of metallic-green cone-like marks surrounded by yellowish white, 

 both the cone-like marks and a narrow surrounding of yellowish 

 white defined by black lines ; an inner and an outer slender sub- 

 terminal broken black line as on the fore w T ing, but the inner line 

 below the short tail bordered outwardly by three metallic-green 

 lunules, with a more obscure green lunule above the tornus. 

 Antennae black, ringed with pale yellow ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen dark fulvous red, banded with black ; beneath, the palpi, 

 thorax and abdomen pale yellowish white. 



Dry-season form. — J $• Upperside similar, but the fulvous-red 

 markings paler, almost yellow, especially in the female, much 

 broader and more extended in both sexes, with the margins more 

 crenulate and irregular. Underside : the ground-colour paler, 

 sometimes nearly white, the black tesselations smaller and more 

 restricted. 



Exp. <5 $ 47-52 mm. (1-86-2-05"). 



Hah. The Himalayas from Eastern Kumaun to Sikhim ; the 

 hills of Assam, Burma and Tenasserim, extending in the Malayan 

 Subregion to Java. 



390. Symbrenthia brabira, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1872, p. 558 ; de N. Butt. 



Ind. ii, 1886. p. 244 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 116, 



pi. 323, figs. 1, 1 a-\ e, cT$- 



Symbrenthia hysudra, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 268, pi. 43, fio;. 8 ; 



' de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 244; Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899- 



1900, p. 118, pi. 324, figs. 1, 1 a-l g. 6 $ • 



