456 * NYMPHALIDiE. 



cell crossed by three narrow short black bands, the inner and the 

 outer not reaching the median vein ; a very irregular black discal 

 blotch from dorsum to vein 4, continued very narrowly along that 

 vein to meet an oblique irregular band from just beyond the middle 

 of the costa • a postdiscal broad transverse black band from dorsum 

 to vein 4, with the portions of the veins beyond it defined in black. 

 The apex of the wing beyond the broad black edging to the costal 

 border has its upper margin and the terminal portions of the veins 

 defined in black ; finally a narrow terminal band. Hind wing : an 

 elongate black subcostal patch near base, continued posteriorly 

 across the cell by an inner and an outer series of small transverse 

 spots; a complete broad black postdiscal band with the por- 

 tions of the veins beyond it lined with black, and a narrow black 

 terminal band as on the fore wing. Cilia of fore and hind wings 

 white, alternated with brown. Underside paler duller orange. 

 Fore wing : black markings as on the upperside, but the cell and 

 upper discal markings obscurely margined on the inner side by 

 white ; an oblique black line from costa to apex of postdiscal 

 transverse band, followed by an oblique preapical series of diffuse 

 white spots, the terminal black band as on the upperside but 

 traversed by a broken white line. Hind wing: a subbasal 

 and a discal broad, transverse white band, both bordered 

 inwardly by a series of black spots, and outwardly by a broad 

 black line ; a somewhat narrower postdiscal transverse black band 

 traversed by a series of paired white spots, followed by a row 

 of cone-shaped markings of the ground-colour, the apices of 

 the cones turned inwards and broadly white ; finally, a black 

 terminal band traversed by a series of white lunules. Antennae 

 black ; head, thorax and abdomen dark dusky fulvous red ; beneath, 

 palpi white, head, thorax and abdomen dark ochraceous, variegated 

 with some black and white lines and spots. — $ . Similar, with 

 similar markings, but on the upperside the ground-colour is paler, 

 the black markings narrower. Fore wing : the postdiscal black 

 band nearly complete, interrupted only in interspaces 1 and 4 ; 

 the terminal black band traversed by a broken white line. Hind 

 wing : no subcostal black patch, instead three series of transverse 

 spots ; a postdiscal transverse broad black band bordered inwardly 

 by a series of slender black loops, between these and the post- 

 discal band a series of spots of the ground-colour ; the terminal 

 black band traversed as on the fore wing by a whitish broken line. 

 Underside similar to that in the <$ , but the ground-colour paler. 

 On the fore wing the black markings comparatively narrower, less 

 well-defined ; on the hind wing the white on the bands and spots 

 replaced by pale yellow. 



Dry -season form. — $ £. Upperside similar to that in the wet- 

 season form, black markings on the whole not so sharply defined. 

 Underside : ground-colour darker, on the hind wing a dark ochra- 

 ceous ; the transverse subbasal and discal bands in both sexes white. 



Exp. S 2 50-56 mm. (1-98-2-22"). 



Rah. Central and Southern India ; Ceylon. 



