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NYMPHALID2E. 



6 2 • Upperside rich silky brown. Fore wing : cell filled with 

 a broad orange-yellow streak subapically deeply indented above ; 

 a small discal orange-yellow spot in interspace 1 ; a very much 

 larger, similarly coloured discal spot between veins 2 and 4, on the 

 inner side impinging on the cell between veins 3 and 4; a sub- 

 costal white preapical spot and a quadrate double spot in inter- 

 spaces 4 and 5, placed obliquely forward to the subcostal spot ; 

 this spot whitish above, orange below. Hind wing uniform, with 

 an irregular curved, transverse, upper postdiscal orange patch 

 extending from just below vein 3 to interspace 6, the portion in 

 interspace 6 often detached. Underside ground-colour : fore wing 

 brown, apex pale purplish irrorated with minute dark transverse 

 striae and dots, orange markings as on the upperside but paler ; 

 hind wing uniform pale purplish irrorated with minute dark dots 

 and transverse striae. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark 

 brown ; beneath, palpi, thorax and abdomen concolorous with the 

 tint of the underside of the hind wing. 



Exp. s 2 46-54 mm. (1-81-2-13"). 



Hab. Southern Europe ; Asia Minor. Within our limits 

 recorded only from Chitral. 



Race lepita, Moore. — Differs from celtis as follows :— J 2 • Up- 

 perside ground-colour a slightly darker brown. Fore wing : orange- 

 yellow streak in cell much narrower for two-thirds of its length 

 from base, then abruptly expanded anteriorly so as to fill the apex 

 of the cell, the inner margin of the apical portion and the anterior 

 margin of the basal portion forming a clearly defined right angle ; 

 lower discal spot absent, upper larger discal spot somewhat 

 diamond-shaped ; subcostal spot and preapical spot placed ob- 

 liquely outwards from it more distinctly double, the lower portion 

 of the subapical spot orange-yellow, the upper portion and the 

 subcostal spot white. Hind wing : the upper postdiscal orange 

 patch narrower, forming a short band which is not curved but 

 placed obliquely transverse, reaching from vein 2 to vein 6, some- 

 times but rarely with a detached orange spot above it in interspace 6. 

 Underside : ground-colour variable, generally vinous-brown, paler 

 along the costal and dorsal margins of the fore wing ; sometimes 

 dark brown on the fore wing, dark greyish on the hind wing, with 

 the costal margin broadly of the fore and the whole of the hind 

 wing irrorated with minute dark striae and spots. Orange and 

 white markings on the fore wing as on the upperside, but the 

 preapical double spot entirely white. The hind wing is more 

 variable ; in some specimens it is uniform without any markings, 

 in others it is shaded transversely light and dark, and in a few 

 specimens the wing is longitudinally divided by a dark -brown 

 diffuse band from base along the median vein to apex of vein 5. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in L. celtis. 



Exp. s 2 50-58 mm. (1-97-2-28"). 



Hab. The Himalayas, from below Simla to Sikhim ; Assam ; 

 Upper Burma ; extending to China and Japan. 



Race lepitoid.es, Moore. — Differs from lepita as follows : — 



