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Title: Butterflies. Vol. I-II.

Identifier: butterfliesvolii00bing

Year: 1907 (1900s)

Authors: Bingham, Charles Thomas, 1848-1908

Subjects: Lepidoptera

Publisher: London, Taylor and Francis; Calcutta and Simla, Thacker, Spink, & Co. ; [etc. ,etc. ]

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426 KTMPHALID^E.

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Cirrochroa nicobarica, <$. sexes slightly produced, broadly rounded.— tf . Upperside: a paler. somewhat duller tawny yel- low than in C. mithila, the bases of the wings slightly shaded writh dusky oliva- ceous. Fore wing : a short narrow dusky black band along the discocellulars ; the costal margin narrowly, the apex and termen very broadly, from about the upper third of the costa in a curved line to near apex of vein 3, and thence in a straighter line to the dorsal margin, opaque black, enclosing in the lower two or three interspaces very obscure lunules of the ground-colour. Hind wing : a straight slender discal black line from middle of costa to near apex of vein 1; a trans- verse series of large oval black spots in interspaces 1 to 3 and 6 to 7 ; a very much smaller black spot in interspace 4; postdiscal, subterminal and terminal narrow dull black sinuous bands ; a short, transverse, narrow subcostal white bar borders on the inner side the discal black spot in interspace 7 : beyond the spot the space between it and the postdiscal band and between the latter and subterminal band is conspicuously whitish. Underside pale ochraceous. Fore wing : discocellular narrow band and an oblique dark discal line very obscure ; the black on the apex and termen, on the upperside, showing through as a dark shade, traversed subterminally by a very obscure series of whitish lunules. Hind wing : the markings as on the upperside, but the discal transverse line, postdiscal and subterminal bands, white not black ; the sub- terminal band very narrow^, the postdiscal band very broad, the latter formed of a series of cone-shaped marks very narrowly bordered on the inner side with diffuse black ; the terminal margin narrowly ochraceous.—Female similar. Upperside: ground- colour paler, the black on the apex and termen of the fore wing narrower, more restricted ; the black markings on the hind wing narrower. Underside : ground-colour much paler than in the cf , the basal area darker than the rest and sharply defined, its outer margin angulated outwards on vein 2 of the fore wing; markings almost identical with those in the <3, but on the hind wing the spot of the discal series in interspace 3 sometimes absent; the cone-shaped white markings composing the postdiscal white band more confluent and continuous. Antennae dusky black in the tf , ochraceous in the § ; head, thorax and abdomen fulvous ; beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen pale ochraceous. Exp. c? $ 48-70 mm. (I-9-2-75"). Bab. The Nicobars.