﻿88 LEPIDOFTERA INDICA. 



DiSTEiBDTiON. — " This species does not appeal- to be vevy rare. Mr. deNiceville 

 lias taken both sexes in Sikkim in October. It also occurs in Assam, Silhet, Cachar, 

 Chittagong, and Mr. Limborg obtained it at Hatseiga and Taoo, 3000 to 5000 feet, 

 in Upijer Tenasserim. In Major Marshall's collection are males taken in March and 

 in the autumn in the Thoungyeen forests, and females in the Donat Range in April, 

 in the Thoungyeen forests in March and April, and at Mepley in January, by 

 Capt. C. T. Bingham" (Butt. India, ii. 212). " Rare in Sikkim at low elevations; 

 probably found throughout the warm months " (de Niceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 

 1894,148). "Common in the Khasia Hills and Cherra Punji" (Col. Swinhoe, 

 Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 284). Mr. J. Wood-Mason records specimens from " Cachar, 

 taken at Trangmara in August, and at Durgakuna in April " (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 

 361). " One male and three females from the Naga and Karen Hills, of which those 

 from the latter are rather smaller and paler than those from Sikkim and Khasias " 

 (H. J. Elwes, P. Z. S. 1891, 281). A male from the Chin-Lushai Hills is in the 

 collection of Mr. P. Crowley. Capt. E. Y. Watson records seven males and two 

 females " from Tilin, taken from December to March during the Chin-Lushai 

 expedition of 1889-90" (J. A. S. Beng. 1891, 40). Major C. H. E. Adamson took 

 it at " Tathon near the Chiudwin in September; Upper Tenasserim and Bhamo. 

 Occasionally met with, but not common" (List, p. 18). A male from the Hills near 

 Papun taken in November, and a female from foot of Donat Range taken in 

 September, 1891, by Capt. Bingham, are in the British Museum collection. Signer 

 Leonardo Fea took specimens in Bhamo in November. It is recorded from " Tavoy " 

 (J. A. S. Soc. Beng. 1887, 426). A single female was taken by Dr. J. Anderson on 

 " Kisseraing Island, Mergui, in January" (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 37). 



HAEAMBA APPIADES (Plate 221, fig?. 2, 2n, \>, S ? )• 



Adolias Appiades, Menetries, Catal. Mas. Petr. Lep. ii. p. 120, pi. 9, fig. 4, jj (1857). Moore, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. 1859, p. 77 P. Z. S. 18G5, p. 77. Butler, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 609. 

 Euthalia Apinades, d^'^\ci^\\\Q,'E\xit. of India, etc., ii. p. 207 (1886); J. Bombay N. H. S. 189), 



p. 350. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown ; abdominal margin 

 pale ochreous-brown ; cilia brown. Forewing crossed by a discal obscurely-defined 

 narrow diffused blackish lunulated fascia, and a similar submarginal denticulated 

 fascia, these fasciiB being widest apart and most obscure towards the costa ; black- 

 lined cell-mai"ks wide apart, a short line also below base of the cell, a large broad 

 ringlet mark and then a small ring. Hindioing ci'ossed by a discal and submarginal 

 slender sinuous fascia, followed by a contiguous marginal smalt-blue band 

 broadening from below the apex to the anal angle ; two black-lined cell-marks, a 

 basal small oval ring below the costal vein, two narrow oval marks between sub- 



