Athyma Nefte Nivifera
Borneo and Malay Peninsula.
Male: upperside black with snow-white markings more or less edged with irrorations of blue scales. Fore wing: discoidal streak obscurely divided and uneven along its upper margin; a much-curved and broadly-interrupted discal band white; the latter composed of three outwardly oblique quadrate spots in interspaces 1 u9 1 and 2, and three oblong spots inclined inwards in interspaces 4, 5 and 6, no spot in interspace 3 ; beyond this an inner and an outer subterminal pale line divided by a transverse narrow black band, the former terminating near apex in an obliquely-placed small narrow white spot.
Hind wing: the discal band of the fore wing continued as a subbasal transverse white band: a postdiscal, narrower, more or less macular band also white, and a very distinct pale, still narrower, subterminal band. The interspace between the postdiscal and the subterminal bands darker than the general ground-colour of the wing, and the postdiscal band on the inner side margined with similarly coloured cone-shaped marks.
Underside brown, the white markings as on the upperside but somewhat diffuse, the interspaces of the groundcolour more or less blotched with darker brown, forming on the hind wing a conspicuous discal transverse series of spots in the interspaces; the dorsal margin of the hind wing broadly bluish white.
Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen above dark brownish black, the thorax and base of the abdomen respectively crossed by a bar of bluish white; beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen bluish white.
Female: Upperside black, the markings similar to those in the male, but orange-yellow and much broader; on the fore wing the discal band complete, the inner subterminal band much broader and better defined.
Underside: the ground-colour a paler brown than in the male, the markings as on the upperside but pinkish white, the dark brown blotches in the interspaces and the series of dark discal spots on the hind wing more prominent.
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