190 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
DistripuTion AND Hasits.—‘‘ In Sikkim, Mr. L. de Nicéville took it at low 
elevations, where he found the males commonly sucking up moisture from damp 
spots, with their wings folded; when disturbed they fly off into the jungle. The 
rich indigo-blue of the upperside of the male, when fresh, makes it a very handsome 
insect on the wing. In Sikkim it is not uncommon. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, 
has specimens from Sibsagar, Upper Assam” (Butt. Ind. 1. 295, 6). According to 
Mr. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 331), it is ‘‘ not rare in the lower valleys of Sikkim 
up to about 2000 feet, from March to November.” Col. C. Swinhoe has received 
numerous specimens taken in the Khasia Hills by Mr. Hamilton’s native collectors. 
Major C. H. E. Adamson obtained it at Bhamo in Upper Burma, where the males 
were very common on moist places on roads throughout the rainy season; the 
females never leave the thick undergrowth of the adjoining forest, where, however, 
they can easily be found” (List, p. 11). Mr. Ossian Limborg (P. Z. 8. 1878, 827) 
obtained it at the “ Houngduran Source, in Upper Tenasserim.” Capt. C. T. 
Bingham “took it at Houndran in Upper Tenasserim” (Butt. Ind. i. 295). 
Specimens from the Karen Hills are in Mr. P. Crowley’s collection. Dr. J. 
Anderson (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 33) took it on Elphinstone Island, Mergui 
Archipelago, in February and March.” The late Mr. F. de Roepstorff obtained speci- 
mens at Port Blair, South Andamans, the males having the ochreous spots on the 
forewing all small, inconspicuous, and narrow, the submarginal row being indicated 
by slender longitudinal pale points—as in some Sikkim specimens; the female 
having the ochreous band on the forewing, as described by Mr. de Nicéville, 
including the upper submarginal lunate patch, the dark dividing line between them 
being obsolete. In specimens from the Malay Peninsula the male has the ochreous 
spots on the forewing conspicuous, and in the female the ochreous band is broader, 
including within it the entire submarginal patches. 
Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 150, fig. 1, la, b represents the 
male and female, and fig. le the larva and pupa, reproduced from Horsfield’s 
figures of the Javanese D. Celinde. 
DISCOPHORA LEPIDA (Plate 151, figs. 1, la, b, c,d ?). 
Enispe lepida, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Company, i. p. 213, ? (1857). 
Discophora lepida, Moore, Lep, Ceylon, i. p. 36, pl. 18, figs. 1, la, b, ¢ 2(1880). Marshall and 
de Nicéville, Butt. of India, ete. i. p. 297 (1883). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside dark purplish-brown, the discal area darkest. ore- 
wing crossed by an oblique subapical series of three decreasing bluish-white spots, a 
fourth lower smaller spot also sometimes being present, followed by a submarginal 
series of small bluish dots. Hindwing with a distinct discal black glandular patch of 
raised scales. Underside dark brownish-ochreous, darkest externally; with numerous 
