. The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. A descriptive handbook of all the known species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations. Butterflies; Butterflies; Butterflies. NYMPIIALID.^. MORPIIINyE. AMATIIUSIA. 293 278. Amathusia portheus, FeUier. A. poriheus, Felder, Rcise Novrra, Lep., vol. iii, p. 461. n, 780 (1865) ; id , Duller, Ent- Month. Mng., vol. vi, p. 55 (1S69).. Habitat : North India. Expanse: <?,4'8to5'o; ?, 53 inches. Description : "Male : U
. The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. A descriptive handbook of all the known species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations. Butterflies; Butterflies; Butterflies. NYMPIIALID.^. MORPIIINyE. AMATIIUSIA. 293 278. Amathusia portheus, FeUier. A. poriheus, Felder, Rcise Novrra, Lep., vol. iii, p. 461. n, 780 (1865) ; id , Duller, Ent- Month. Mng., vol. vi, p. 55 (1S69).. Habitat : North India. Expanse: <?,4'8to5'o; ?, 53 inches. Description : "Male : Upperside as in A. a?}iyfhaon, but i\\Qfo!ewtng with the fascia narrower towards the costa, and much wider hindward than in that species [evidently A, iveslwoodii is here referred to]. Hindwing \vith a patch of raised blackish scales filling almost the entire cell as in Discophora, and with similar scales below the median nervure and a tuft of brown hairs. Underside as in/^./wY/^^w;;* [from Java], but with the streaks of the hindwing including the ocelli more divergent. Female : Upperside as in A. amythaon, but the yellow fascia of the forewing less excised, not at all interrupted, the hinder end divided by a streak of the ground-colour; a yellowish spot below it between the first and second median nervules. Underside as in the male, but with the streaks a little ; QFelJer, I. c.) Butler remarks (1. c.):—" Felder's Indian species is probably the true male A. amythaon of ; It is impossible for us to settle the point without seeing the type of the latter species, but the descriptions apparently apply to different insects. The underside is almost exactly similar in all these species ; we have one male specimen of A. porlheus however from Sikkim which entirely lacks the upper ocellus on the underside of the hindwing. A. porlheus \s a. v^^xe: insect: Captain C. T. Bingham took a few specimens of both sexes in the autumn and winter months in the Thoung
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