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KTMPHALID^E. 



Cirrochroa nicobarica, <$ . 



sexes slightly produced, broadly rounded. — tf . Upperside : a paler. 



somewhat duller tawny yel- 

 low than in C. mithila, the 

 bases of the wings slightly 

 shaded w r ith dusky oliva- 

 ceous. Fore wing : a short 

 narrow dusky black band 

 along the discocellulars ; the 

 costal margin narrowly, the 

 apex and termen very broadly, 

 from about the upper third 

 of the costa in a curved line 

 to near apex of vein 3, and 

 thence in a straighter line 

 to the dorsal margin, opaque 

 black, enclosing in the lower two or three interspaces very obscure 

 lunules of the ground-colour. Hind wing : a straight slender discal 

 black line from middle of costa to near apex of vein 1 ; a trans- 

 verse series of large oval black spots in interspaces 1 to 3 and 6 to 

 7 ; a very much smaller black spot in interspace 4; postdiscal, 

 subterminal and terminal narrow dull black sinuous bands ; a 

 short, transverse, narrow subcostal white bar borders on the inner 

 side the discal black spot in interspace 7 : beyond the spot the 

 space between it and the postdiscal band and between the latter 

 and subterminal band is conspicuously whitish. Underside pale 

 ochraceous. Fore wing : discocellular narrow band and an oblique 

 dark discal line very obscure ; the black on the apex and termen, 

 on the upperside, showing through as a dark shade, traversed 

 subterminally by a very obscure series of whitish lunules. Hind 

 wing : the markings as on the upperside, but the discal transverse 

 line, postdiscal and subterminal bands, white not black ; the sub- 

 terminal band very narrow^, the postdiscal band very broad, the 

 latter formed of a series of cone-shaped marks very narrowly 

 bordered on the inner side with diffuse black ; the terminal 

 margin narrowly ochraceous. — Female similar. Upperside : ground- 

 colour paler, the black on the apex and termen of the fore wing 

 narrower, more restricted ; the black markings on the hind wing 

 narrower. Underside : ground-colour much paler than in the cf , 

 the basal area darker than the rest and sharply defined, its outer 

 margin angulated outwards on vein 2 of the fore wing ; markings 

 almost identical with those in the <3 , but on the hind wing the 

 spot of the discal series in interspace 3 sometimes absent ; the 

 cone-shaped white markings composing the postdiscal white band 

 more confluent and continuous. Antennae dusky black in the tf , 

 ochraceous in the § ; head, thorax and abdomen fulvous ; beneath, 

 the palpi, thorax and abdomen pale ochraceous. 

 Exp. c? $ 48-70 mm. (I-9-2-75"). 

 Bab. The Nicobars. 



