LIBYTHEA. 475 



c? 2 • Hind wing : tornus narrowly produced, dentate or even, 

 subcaudate. Upperside: ground-colour darker brown. Fore wing: 

 the orange-yellow streak in cell divided from the spot in the apex 

 of the cell, the large discal spot smaller, the subcostal and subapieal 

 spots more distinctly double, the latter pure white. Hind wing : 

 the transverse short band narrower and more horizontal ; a diffuse 

 quadrate pale spot in the middle of interspace 7, larger in the 2 

 than in the tf . Underside fore wing: ground-colour dark brown, 

 the apex, the termen narrowly and slightly, and the dorsal margin 

 somewhat broadly touched with grey, irrorated with minute dark 

 dots and transverse striae ; the orange-yellow and white markings 

 as on the upperside, the former broader and fuller, the cellular 

 streak not interrupted. Hind wing pale grey, shaded broadly at 

 base, on the disc and posteriorly, with brown, the pale grey 

 ground-colour prominently replacing the transverse orange streak 

 and pale subcostal spot of the upperside. In some specimens 

 there is a very dark brown shading from base of the wing along 

 the median vein. The entire surface of the wing is in orated 

 with minute dots and transverse short striae. Antennae, head, 

 thorax and abdomen as in celtis. 



Exp. J 2 58-61 mm. (2-28-2-41"). 



Hob. Southern India ; Ceylon. 



456. Libythea myrrha, Godart, Encycl. Meth. ix, 1819. p. 171 • de K. 



Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 302. 



Libythea rama, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 556 ; id. Lep. Cei/l. i, 1881, 



p. 68, pi. 33, figs. 2,2 a; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 302 ; 



Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 53, pi. 393, figs. 1, Iff, 



lb, 6 2- 

 Libythea myrrha, var. sangumalis, Fruhstorfer, Berl. ent. Zeits. 



x'liii, 1898, p. 169. 

 Libythea sangumalis, Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 51, pi. 392, 



figs. 1,1 a-ig,6 2- 



A variable insect in the extent and breadth of the orange- 

 yellow markings and in the mottling and ground-colour of the 

 underside. Typically 5 2 have the ground- 

 colour on the upperside dark brown, with 

 the following orange-yellow markings : — 

 Eore wing : a streak from base along the 

 median vein extending narrowly on each 

 side of it and continued beyond as a 

 comparatively large oval spot in base of 

 interspace 2 ; two preapical double spots 

 placed obliquely to the costa. Hind wing 

 Fi<*. 86. uniform, with a slightly oblique narrow 



Libythea .myrrha, <$ . \. medial band extending from vein 1 to 

 vein 5. Underside fore wing : ground- 

 colour brown : orange-yellow markings as on the upperside, but 

 broader, more diffuse ; apex and dorsal margin broadly shaded 

 with pale grey irrorated with minute dark spots and transverse 

 short striae. Hind wing greyish brown irrorated with minute 



