﻿18 LEPIDOPTERA INDIGA. 



crossed by a slightly-defined discal sinuous black line outwardly edged by ill-defined 

 lilacine-wliite lunules, these lunules being less apparent on the hindwing ; a sub- 

 marginal slightly-defined catenulated row of lilacine- whitish rings outwardly edged 

 by a blackish line ending towards the apex of forewing in two more prominent 

 lilacine-white small apical patches, before which latter are two minute white sub- 

 apical dots. Hindwing with a small subanal black ocellus centred with white and 

 ringed with chestnut-red. Body above purplish-black ; body and palpi beneath, 

 and leo-s ferruerinous-brown ; antennae black above, red beneath. 



Female. Forewing angulated below the apex. Hindwing broader and shorter, 

 more convex externally. Upperside obscure yellowish-ferruginous. Both wings 

 with two dusky brown spots in the cell, an auriform mark at its end, a transverse 

 inner discal angular fascia, a less defined outer discal clouded fascia traversed by 

 a row of small blackish spots, the three upper of which on the forewing are white- 

 centred, and the lowest on the hindwing the largest and ocellate ; beyond is an 

 inner submarginal dusky macular fascia and an outer line. Underside brighter 

 yellowish-ferruginous, marked as in the male. 



Expanse, S Ij^q to 2, ? l^, to 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Kumaon ; Sikkim ; Assam ; Silhet ; Khasia and Naga Hills ; 

 Burma ; Tenasserim ; Shan States ; Tonkin ; Hong Kong. 



Distribution. — According to Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. S. Bengal, 1886, p. 123), it 

 was observed by him at Jhillaghat, on the Eastern border of Kumaon. " Males are 

 frequently seen in Sikkim at elevations of 5000 feet, and below, the female being very 

 scarce. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has specimens from Silhet, Sibsagar, Assam, 

 the Naga Hills, and Upper Tenasserim " (de Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. 54). Mr. 

 Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 340) says it " occurs in Sikkim up to 6000 feet, from 

 April to November." Colonel C. Swinhoe has received several specimens of both 

 sexes from the Khasia Hills. Lieutenant D. Thomson (J. Bomb. N. H. S. 1890, 295) 

 records its capture in the Chin-Lushai country during the expedition from the 

 Chittagong side in the cold weather of 1889-90. Lieutenant B. Y. Watson (J. Bomb. 

 N. H. S. 1891, 36) also records "a single male taken at Tiling in December, during 

 the same Chin Expedition, from the Burmese side." Major C. H. E. Adamson (List 

 Burm. Butt. 13) " captured a number of this species in Tenasserim, on the road 

 between Kaukarit and Myawaddee, on April 27th, but were not seen elsewhere." 

 " Two males are recorded from Ponsekai, and a pair from Tavoy " (J. A. S. Beng. 

 1887, 424). Dr. N. Manders in his Notes on the Lepidoptera of the Shan States, 

 Burma (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 521), says it is " not uncommon at 1000 feet, but I have 

 never seen it above 3000 feet." Mr. de Niceville, in his recent list of the species of 

 this genus (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1895, p. 262) records it as "also occurring in the 

 Malay Peninsula and Upper Tonkin." Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., took specimens in 



