. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. LIBYTHEA. 475 c? 2 • Hind wing: tornus narrowly produced, dentate or even, subcaudate. Upperside: ground-colour darker brown. Fore wing: the orange-yellow streak in cell divided from the spot in the apex of the cell, the large discal spot smaller, the subcostal and subapieal spots more distinctly double, the latter pure white. Hind wing : the transverse short band narrower and more horizontal; a diffuse quadrate pale spot in the middle of interspace 7, larger in the 2 than in the tf . Underside fore wing: ground-colour dark brown, the apex, the termen na
. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. LIBYTHEA. 475 c? 2 • Hind wing: tornus narrowly produced, dentate or even, subcaudate. Upperside: ground-colour darker brown. Fore wing: the orange-yellow streak in cell divided from the spot in the apex of the cell, the large discal spot smaller, the subcostal and subapieal spots more distinctly double, the latter pure white. Hind wing : the transverse short band narrower and more horizontal; a diffuse quadrate pale spot in the middle of interspace 7, larger in the 2 than in the tf . Underside fore wing: ground-colour dark brown, the apex, the termen narrowly and slightly, and the dorsal margin somewhat broadly touched with grey, irrorated with minute dark dots and transverse striae; the orange-yellow and white markings as on the upperside, the former broader and fuller, the cellular streak not interrupted. Hind wing pale grey, shaded broadly at base, on the disc and posteriorly, with brown, the pale grey ground-colour prominently replacing the transverse orange streak and pale subcostal spot of the upperside. In some specimens there is a very dark brown shading from base of the wing along the median vein. The entire surface of the wing is in orated with minute dots and transverse short striae. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in celtis. Exp. J 2 58-61 mm. (2-28-2-41"). Hob. Southern India ; Ceylon. 456. Libythea myrrha, Godart, Encycl. Meth. ix, 1819. p. 171 • de K. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 302. Libythea rama, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 556 ; id. Lep. Cei/l. i, 1881, p. 68, pi. 33, figs. 2,2 a; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 302 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 53, pi. 393, figs. 1, Iff, lb, 6 2- Libythea myrrha, var. sangumalis, Fruhstorfer, Berl. ent. Zeits. x'liii, 1898, p. 169. Libythea sangumalis, Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 51, pi. 392, figs. 1,1 a-ig,6 2- A variable insect in the extent and breadth of the orange- yellow markings and in the mottling and ground-colour of the underside. Typically 5 2 h
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