. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. SYMBEEXTHIA. 377. Wet-season form.— c?. Upperside black, with orange-yellow markings as follows :—Eore wing: discoidal streak clavate, bi- indentate above; a contiguous spot at base of interspace 3; a short, outwardly oblique band from middle of dorsum contracted in the middle ; another outwardly oblique, somewhat macular, short, broad, preapical band from beyond middle of costa to interspace 4, with two small spots above it in interspaces 5 and 6. Hind wing : a very broad sub- basal transverse band narrow at the costal margin, a postdiscal narrower simi
. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. SYMBEEXTHIA. 377. Wet-season form.— c?. Upperside black, with orange-yellow markings as follows :—Eore wing: discoidal streak clavate, bi- indentate above; a contiguous spot at base of interspace 3; a short, outwardly oblique band from middle of dorsum contracted in the middle ; another outwardly oblique, somewhat macular, short, broad, preapical band from beyond middle of costa to interspace 4, with two small spots above it in interspaces 5 and 6. Hind wing : a very broad sub- basal transverse band narrow at the costal margin, a postdiscal narrower similar band contract- ed into a line towards costal margin, sometimes traversed by a line of black spots and a subter- minal very slender line. Under- side ochraceous orange with numerous spots and lines of ferruginous, that form on fore Fig. QS.—SymbrentMa lucina. \. wing a short, outwardly oblique streak not extending beyond interspace 3, and on hind wing a subbasal transverse streak in continuation of the above streak on the fore wing; also on both wings a series of obscure postdiscal cone-shaped marks, irrorated and rendered indistinct on the hind wing by a large patch of pink scales turning to a bluish lunule in interspace 3 ; fore wing with a ferruginous, hind wing with a pale yellow subterminal line. Antennae black, ochraceous at apex ; head with ferruginous pubescence; thorax and abdomen black on upperside, ochraceous beneath.— § . Similar, the orange markings broader and somewhat paler on the upperside. Dry-season form differs in both sexes as follows:—The orange markings on the upperside broader and paler in the middle, the short bands on the anterior and posterior portions of the wing coalescing. Underside paler, all the dark markings less clearly dehned than in the wet-season form. Exp. S 2 46-50 mm. (1-8 to nearly 2"). Hab. The Himalayas from Simla to Sikhim; Assam; Burma ; Tenasserim, extending to the Malayan Subregion. Larva. " Body cylindrical.
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