﻿13-t LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Khasia females. Foreivim/ with the transverse olivescent- white macular band com- 

 posed of about one-third smaller sized spots ; the lower subapical spot being 

 comparatively larger. Hindwing with two prominent well-defined olivescent- 

 white upper discal lunate spots. Underside dark olivescent-grey. Forewing with 

 olivescent-white macular band, and subapical spots, as above. Hindtoing with the 

 transverse series of five bhiish-white decreasing spots transversely narrow. 



Expanse, ? 2i^ inches. ■ 



Habitat. — Burma. 



DisTRiBDTiON. — The type specimen was taken at the Ruby Mines, Upper Burma. 

 It is in the collection of Mr. H. Grose-Smith, and is the only one we know. 



MAHALDIA IVA (Plate 24.3, figs. 1, la, ? ). 

 Adolias Ira, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 195 (1857); Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1859, 



p. 78, pi. 8, fig. 2, c?. 

 Euthalia Iva, de Nicc'ville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 197 (1886j ; Jouin. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1894, 



p. 10. 



Male. — Upperside very dark sap-green ; cilia alternated with white ; basal 

 black-lined marks distinct. Both wings with a transverse very obscurely-defined 

 discal and submarginal blackish diffused lunular fascia, the discal being the least 

 apparent. Forewing also crossed by an oblique medial broad macular olivescent- 

 white band, composed of elongated narrow spots, the lowest being constricted in 

 its middle and prolonged to near end of lower median veinlet, below which is a 

 white-speckled patch at the angle ; two very small slender white spots also present 

 beneath the lower median veinlet placed upon the discal fascia, and two oblique oval 

 spots before t1ie apex. Hindwing with an upper discal curved series of four small 

 olivescent-white rounded spots. Underside deep greyish-green, more olivescent- 

 green externally ; basal black-lined markings prominent ; submarginal lunular fascia 

 black-speckled, distinct. Forenu'ng with the oblique medial macular olivescent- 

 white band and two lower small spots and the subapical spots narrowly black 

 bordered. Hindwing with an upper discal curved series of either five or six small 

 olivescent-white spots -bordered by black speckles. Body and palpi above dark 

 sap-green, beneath and legs pale olivescent-yellow; antennae dark brown tipt with 

 red. 



Female. Upperside as in the male, except that on the forewing the two small 

 slender white spots below the lower median veinlet are sometimes absent. Under- 

 side as in the male. 



Expanse, c? 4^^^y, ? 4^^, inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Manipur. 



Distribution. — " Of this very rare species no specimen has of late years been 

 obtained in Sikkim, except a single example in Mr. G. C. Dudgeon's collection 



