340 



LTC^NTD^. 



applies to specimens from Kiukiang which Avere taken by Maries and are in 

 the National Collection at South Kensington. 



The only specimens that I have are an example of each sex taken by my 

 collectors at Chang-yaug. The upper surface of the male exactly corresponds 

 with jJOntis from Sikkim, and the female seems to agree with the description 

 of sinensis, the type of which was probably a female also. 



In Moller's collection there is a good series of pontis, which includes one 

 female example, taken in Sikkim. The female has the Avings broadly 

 bordered with black, and the disc is bright bluish purple, with a greenish 

 reflection at the base. I can see no greenish reflection in any of the males 

 from Sikkim, which are all of a bright purple in one light, and brown in 

 another. The markings on the under surface are also somewhat variable. 

 I cannot, however, find any character by which sinensis can be specifically 

 separated from fontis, and can therefore only regard the former as a local 

 race of the latter. 



Genus NIPHANDA. 

 Niphanda, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 572. 



" Palpi very long, porrcct, extending much beyond the head, flattened ; second joint fusiform, 

 squamose; third joint slender, naked, slightly thickened vertically at the tip. Antennae 

 (broken). Body robust. Legs slender, minutely squamose. ' Wings broad, strong : fore 

 wing elongated, trigonal, cogta arched ; hind margin extending much beyond posterior wing ; 

 exterior margin slightly convex towards posterior angle, which is acute ; median vein with 

 four Itranchcs, the second and fourth arising at the extremity of the cell, the third starting 

 from the second near its extremity before the apex : hind wing arched along anterior margin ; 

 outer angle much rounded, abdominal margin long and nearly straight, anal angle acute. 

 Near to Chi-j/sophujivs." {Moore, I. c.) 



Niphanda fusca. (Plate XXXI. fig. 17, $ var.) 



? . riiecia fusca, lUvnicv & Grey, Selnnett. N. China's, p. 9 (1853) ; Menetries, Cat. 

 Mus. Pctr. i. pi. iv. fig. 5 (1855). 



J. Amhlijpudiu fusca, Bremer, Bull. Acad. Pctr. iii. ]>. 409 (1861). 

 Amhlijiiodia di.yiur, IJrcnier, Lcp. Ost-Sib. p. 2l., pi. iii. fig. 4,(f fl8Gl). 

 Pobjtiiiimuliis fiiHCUH, Oljcrtliiir, Ktud. d'Eritom. ii. p. 20, pi. iv. fig. 5 (1876). 

 Niphanda fusca, Pryor, Rliop. Nilion. p. 13, pi. iv. fig. 2, ? (1886). 



Thecia fusca, var. lasurca, (jraeser, Ikrl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 74. 



" AltD fintic'o mari.s supra ca-rulesccnti-violaceo-micantes, subtus fusco-grisca) ; maculis, fasciis 



lunulisquo marginalibus fuscis, alljido-annulatis. m." {Bremer, Lep. Ost-Sih.) 

 "AlisBupra: fuscis, anticis nigro-maculatia ; posticis maculis duobus nigris ad angulum aai; — 



