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these species, from which it differs by the givater lmmdth of the bluish fasehv on the upper 

 surface of the wings, and as the Ceylonese butterfly has been specifically described, this insect 

 also requires a distinctive name. 



Genus SYMBEE XTHI A (to follow Rhinopalpa). 

 Symhrmhia, Hubner, Vera, bek. Sclnnett. p. 48 (1816), 



Lawtwut, Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. t. 10, f. 8 tl83(J| ; Doubl. Gen. Diuru. Lep. p. ISO (1848). 



Anterior wings subtriangular, the costal margin moderately conve*, the apes prominent but not falcate, 

 the outer margin more or less concavely sinuate, the inner margin slightly convex at base, and concavely 

 sinuate towards outer angle. Costal nervuie robust, first sub costal nervule emitted at about one* third before 

 end of tell, second just before end of cell, third emitted between end of cell and base of fourth, fourth and 

 fifth bifurcating about midway between base of third and apes of wing ; upper disco -cellular nervule short 

 and concave, lower oblique and slightly concave, median uervuk^ well separated, the first from end of cell* 

 Posterior wings irregularly subovate, the costal margin oblique and very slightly convex, the posterior margin 

 more or less waved and scalloped, and angularly produced at apes of upper median nervule* Costal nervule 

 strongly arched at base and extending to apes of wing; subcostal and discoidai nervules emitted close 

 together near upper end of cell. Body short and robust, palpi long and robust, well projecting before the 

 eyes ; antennro moderately long, with an apical club, which is hollowed beneath and attenuated at apex. 

 Legs moderately long and not prominently robust. 



This genus is well represented in Continental India, and is distributed eastward through 

 the Malay Peninsula and the Indo- Malayan region. To what extent ft is distributed throughout 

 the Malayan Archipelago it is at present impossible to say. but its area seems certainly locussed 

 in Northern Continental India. 



1. Symbrenthia hyppoclus. (Tab. XLIL, figs, fi ¥ .) 



PuptiUt Hyfifioclu; Cramer, Pup. Ex. iii. t. 220, C\ D (1782). 



Vtmewt tlyjyiocla, GodL Eoc. Mc*tm ix. p. 21)8, a. 5 (18191; Snppl, p. 818 (1823). 

 HitjHnuntia Hifipurld, Hiibn. Sam ml. Ex. Sulimutt. (lSlli — 1824). 

 Paptito Liu-inn, Cram, Pap. Ex. iv. t. 83U, £. F. | 1782. 

 Ltiofioiut JJip/tociu t Moore, Proc. Zool. £>oc. 18(113, p, 762. 



Stjiuhrrnthia HypjHtclw, De Nic. J. A. S. Beng, vol. l. p. 60, n. 18, p, 54 : n. 18 tl881) ; Moore, Proc, 55ooL Koc, 

 1882, p. 243, t. xi. f. 4, 4w ; Kheil, Khop. der IuseL Nias, p. 21, n. 8U (1884). 



Male. Wings above blackish, with the following dark ochraceous markings: — anterior win j^s with 

 an irregularly shaped fascia extending from base along median nervnre to a little beyond end of cell, 

 a curved fascia near outer angle, a short subapieal fascia (sometimes broken as in specimen figured) and a 

 small apical spot ; posterior wings with a central and a submarginal fascia and a subraarginal ochraceous 

 line. Wings beneath ochraceous, much mottled with castaneous markings, of which the darkest and most 

 prominent is an oblique fascia crossing both wings, passing beneath cell of anterior wings and across cell 

 of posterior wings, and on posterior wings it bifurcates at costal margin ; the costal margin of anterior 

 wings is spotted with blackish, and there is a violaceous spot outwardly fuscous between the two upper 

 median nervules of the same wings; the posterior wings have a bluish marginal patch of scales between 

 the two upper median nervules. Body above blackish, anterior portion of head, pronotal collar, and base 

 of abdomen ochraceous ; body beneath and legs ochraceous. 



Female, Larger than the male, the uehraceous markings above much larger; wings beneath with 

 the ground colour paler than in male. 



Exp, wings , £ , 40 millim. ; S , 50 millim. 



Hah. — Continental India; N,W. Himalaya iHocking — Moore) ; Bengal (Moore/ ; Sikkim (de Nic) ; 



