. 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. 262 NYMPHALID.^. SATYRIN^, PARANTIRRHCEA. or abdominal margin, marked out by the obtuse-angled apex, the tail, and the well-rounded anal angle; with a black, oval, sexual mark, divided by the submedian nervure, near the anal angle ; costal nervure short and straight, terminating before, and the
. 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. 262 NYMPHALID.^. SATYRIN^, PARANTIRRHCEA. or abdominal margin, marked out by the obtuse-angled apex, the tail, and the well-rounded anal angle; with a black, oval, sexual mark, divided by the submedian nervure, near the anal angle ; costal nervure short and straight, terminating before, and the first branch of the subcostal which originates close to the base of its nervure ending beyond, the middle of the length of the costal margin, the second branch being given off before the middle of the discoidal cell, and extending into the apical angle ; the discoidal ncfvule in the same straight or slightly curved line with the subcostal; the disco-cellular nervule sinuous ; the third Dudian nervule produced to a conspicuous tail. Antmnce fine and distinctly clubbed. Female ; {Wood-Mason, 1. c, in Journ. A. S. B.) 255. Parantirrhoea marshalli, p. marshalli, Wood-Mason, Journ A. S B., vol. xlix, pt ii, p. 250 (18S0) ; idem, id., Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. vii, p. 335 (1881),. Habitat : Trevandrum, Travancore. Expanse: 2*4 inches. DESCRirTiON : "Male : Upperside, both wings dark fuscous, suffused with rich deep violet. Foreiving with an outwardly and forvvardly arched, subcrescentic, pale violet or mauve band, commencing beyond the middle of the wing at the costal nervure, terminat- in"- at the inner angle, and crossed obliquely by a series of three small white spots disposed in a straight line parallel to the outer margin, and placed upon folds of as many consecutive interspaces, the last being between the second and third median nervules. Hindwin° relatively longer tailed than in Melanitis isinene, Cramer, with the membranous
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