NYMPH A LINJE. (Group NYMPH ALINA.) 
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black-edged bronze-green spots, with brighter green borders; these spots are 
irrorated and more or less suffused with blackish; from apex to second median 
branch is a series of gradually increasing marginal black spots, edged externally 
with pink, the last two crossed by a red stripe; a large bright olive-green semi¬ 
circular spot, with black inner border and bluish-white outer border at outer 
extremity of first median interspace, and a large black spot, crossed by a red 
A-shaped marking, and bordered along its infero-exterior border with grey, at the 
extremity of interno-median area; a triangular black and red spot at extremity of 
abdominal fold ” (Butler, l.c. 306). 
Expanse, 8 3^ inches. 
Habitat. —Manipur ; Upper Assam. 
Note.— £e Duller in colour than P. Angelica ; differs in the absence of white on 
the blue belt, and in the great width of the belt, and in the presence of blue 
marginal spots on the forewing, the less caudate hindwing, the cruciform character 
of the black submarginal markings of the underside of the forewing, the filled-in 
discoidal markings on both wings, the inner-half of external area of hindwing, on 
the underside, being greyish-olivaceous crossed by oblong black patches with reddish 
external borders, the shorter green and black submarginal arched spots, etc.” 
(Butler, lx. 54). 
Distribution. —A single specimen of the male of this species was taken in 
Manipur by Dr. Gf. Watt. Mr. W. Doherty <tf obtained one male near Margherita, 
and one was seen near Sadiya, Upper Assam., the former agreeing with regalis in 
the dusky underside, and the very broad blue band and five blue spots of the fore¬ 
wing above, but the hindwing and the base of the forewing have an obvious violet- 
gloss, though they are not, as in angelica , powdered with the bluish-white scales 55 
{l.c. 126). 
Indo-Malayan Species. — Prothoe Niasica , Rober, Entom. Nadir. 1894, p. 366. 
Habitat. Nias Island.— Prothoe Francldi (Nym. Francki, Gfodart, Enc. Meth. ix. 
SuppL p. 825 (1823). Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 54 (1823-26). 
Doubleday and Westwood, Glen. D. Lep. ii. p. 266, pi. 51, fig. 3, ? (1850). Wallace, 
Tr. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 80. Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 52. Habitat. Java.—- 
Prothoe Semjoeri, Honrath, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1884, p. 204, pi. 2, fig. 1, la. Semper, 
Reisen Phil. Lep. p. 77, pi. 15, fig. 1 (1887). Habitat. Mindanao.— Prothoe Plateni , 
Staudinger (Semper, Reisen Phil. Lep. p. 334). Habitat. Mindoro. 
Genus AGATASA. 
Male. More robust than in typical Prothoe. Forewing with the base of costal 
and subcostal vein curved inward, the subcostal being perfectly free from end of 
