3S0 



NYMPHALIDiE. 



abdomen black ; beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen pale 

 ochraceous, shotted and marked with black. 



Dry-season form. — Very similar, the markings slightly paler. 

 The seasonal dimorphism in this and in the form next described 

 seems to be much less marked than in the previously enumerated 

 forms. 



Exp. s 2 48-62 mm. (1-88-2-45"). 



Hab. Apparently confined to Sikhim, 3000-5000 ft. 



Race silana, de Mceville. — Differs from the typical form chiefly 

 on the underside. Black tesselations, though quite as prominent 

 and as heavily marked as in the typical form, are much more 

 restricted, the ground-colour of pinkish -pearly white showing up 

 most prominently as discoidal and preapical streaks on the fore 

 wing and as transverse subbasal and postdiscal bands on the hind 

 wing. The most conspicuous difference, however, between the 

 race silana and S. nipJianda is in the colour of the subterminal 

 lunules on the underside of the hind wing ; these in niphanda, as 

 in 7igpselis, are always metallic green, in the race silana a beautiful 

 metallic cerulean blue. 



Exp. S 2 as in the typical form. 



Hab. Sikhim : Bhutan. 



Genus PR0TH0E. 



Protkoe, Hilbner, Samml. exot. Schmett. ii, 1823-26, pi. 54 ; de N. 

 Butt. 2nd. ii, 1886, p. 293; Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, 

 p. 123. 



Type, P. francJci, Godart, from Java. 



Range. Eastern and Southern divisions of the Indo-Malayan 

 Region. 



<S 2 • Fore wing very broadly triangular ; costa widely arched ; 

 apex blunt ; termen straight, erect ; tornus blunt ; dorsum straight ; 

 cell closed ; upper discocellular very short, middle twice length of 

 upper, erect, lower long, deeply concave in its anterior portion, 

 oblique posteriorly ; vein 3 from well before lower apex of cell, 

 4 from apex ; veins 8 and 9 remarkably long, emitted from basal 

 half of 7 ; 10 and 11 free. Hind wing : costa long, widely 

 arched ; apex and anterior portion of termen curved, lower portion 

 of termen produced, forming, between veins 3 and 4, a broad 

 spatular tail, from apex of which to tornus the termen is oblique 

 and conspicuously scalloped ; dorsum arched ; cell open ; vein 7 

 closer to 6 than to 8. Antennae long, a little longer than half 

 length of fore wing ; club long, narrow, gradual ; palpi short, 

 somewhat compressed ; eyes naked. Male with a tuft of long hair 

 at base of hind wing, overlapping a patch of specialized scales. 



The larger forms of P. cahjdonia, Hewitson, and its race belisama, 

 Crowley, have been separated as Agatasa ; the differences, chiefly 

 of neuration, are, however, very slight. 



