N YMPHALINJE. (Group NYMPH ALINA.) 
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area of tlie cell and posterior border being white, the lower cell area and median 
interspaces blotched with pale fulvous. Hindwing with the basal area and lower- 
discal area tessellated with black marks divided by a whitish transverse medial 
interspace representing the band of the upperside; beyond is a submarginal series 
of five metallic-green conical spots, each being thickly powdered with black scales 
and edged with black, the whole series encompassed by a fine black line, the veins 
between the spots being also black lined ; bordering these spots is an inner black 
lunular line, and outwardly a marginal row of metallic-green black-speckled lunules, 
the three lowest lunules from the anal angle being broad, a similar lunule also 
present at the abdominal angle. Body above black; thorax thickly clothed with 
iridescent green and fulvous hairs, abdomen with fulvous segmental bands; head 
above black, front whitish; palpi above black, pale yellow beneath ; body beneath 
and legs pale yellow; abdomen beneath with lateral, black spots ; antennae black 
above, whitish beneath. 
Female. Upperside duller fulvescent-black ; all the bands yellowish-ochreous. 
j Forewing with the discoidal band as in male ; the subapical streak continued to the 
costa and having a minute spot also present outside its lower end, with which it is 
sometimes coalescent, a small apical streak also above it; outer band the same as 
in male. Hindwing with the discal band narrow as in male, the blackish tessellate 
marks of the underside being very slightly visible basally; outer-discal band 
narrower; marginal disconnected line slightly apparent. Underside as in the male. 
Expanse, S 1-q, to 2^, ? 2^ inches. 
Dry-season form (Plate 322, fig. 1, e, g, 1, f, g, h, $). 
SymbrentJiia Cotanda , Moore, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 569, pi. 66 , fig. 9, g. de Nicdville, Butt. 
India, ii. p. 242 (1886); id. Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 145. 
Male. —Upperside duller fulvescent-black than in wet-season form. Both wings 
with all the bands broader, more irregular in shape, and of a somewhat paler fulvous. 
Forewing with the broad discoidal band diffusedly extending brokenly below the cell 
towards the posterior margin and partly coalescing with inner end of the outer band, 
the subapical band composed of three conjoined portions. Hindwing with the discal 
band extending broadly to the costal edge, where it is pale yellow; the outer band 
broader and more irregularly-edged; the fulvous marginal disconnected line from 
anal angle distinct, its upper end joined to the discal band. Underside similar to 
wet-season form. 
Female. Upperside. Ground-colour dark fulvescent-brown; the black 
tessellate markings of the underside being more or less partially visible; the bands 
yellowish-ochreous with paler central areas, broader and more irregularly-edged than 
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