﻿24 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



HERONA ANGUSTATA (Plate 196, fig. 1, la, ? ). 



Herona angustata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 829, $ . de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. 

 p. 62 (1886). Adamson, List. Burmese Butt. p. 13 (1889). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside similar to H, Marathus, but with the fulvous 

 macular bands much narrower. 



Female. Upperside deeper black than H. Marathus, the macular bands narrower, 

 and all of a pale ochreous colour, except the two subapical spots on the forewing, 

 which are white. Underside of a paler olivescent-brown, the bands also all paler. 



Expanse, 2^-0 to 3 inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Burma, Tenasserim. 



DiSTRiBCTTioN. — The type specimens were taken at Moolai at 3000 to 6000 feet in 

 Upper Tenasserim. Major C. H. E. Adamson (List. Butt. Burm. 13) records this 

 species from Lower Burma (we have identified a specimen taken by him in 

 Moulmein in October), Its habits being similar to H. Marathus. Mr. L. de 

 Niceville (Butt. Ind. ii. 62) records five specimens in Major Marshall's collection, 

 a female taken in October in Arakan by Captain Adamson, a male from Gawlai in 

 Upper Tenasserim in September, and both sexes taken by Captain C. T. Bingham in 

 the Upper Thoungyeen forests in Upper Tenasserim. "We possess a female taken by 

 Captain Bingham on January lltli, 1882. A pair from Tavoy is recorded by 

 Mr. H. J. Elwes (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 421). 



HERONA ANDAMANA (Plate 196, fig. 2, 2a, h, ^ ? ). 



Herona Andamana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 585. de Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 62, 



pi. 18, fig. 76, ? (1886). 

 Herona Seneca, Staudinger, Exot. Sohmett. p. 138 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside similar to E. Marathus, the ground colour blacker, 

 but with all the markings paler. Forexving with the markings narrower, the 

 outwardly oblique upper discal streaks elongated and pointed at their end. Hind- 

 wing with both bands narrower and macular, the submarginal lower line somewhat 

 broader. Underside with the ground colour somewhat darker than in H. Marathus, 

 markings as on upperside, but more distinctly suffused with chalybeate lilacine- 

 white. 



Female, Upperside blacker than in H. Marathus ; markings as in the male, 

 but all of a white colour. Forewing with the lower basal streak obscurely defined, 

 ■Hindwing with the upper and lower discal bands also less defined than in the male, 

 the lower submarginal line replaced by obscurely defined broad lunules, the black 

 dot between the middle and lower medians being distinct. Underside with the 

 ground colour darker than in the male, and all the markings much more prominent 

 and whiter. 



