﻿140 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



posterior margin, tlie band composed of irregular-shaped spots, outwardly diffused 

 by a black line — of which the posterior spots are also externally bordered by smalt- 

 blue scales ; before the apex are two very small oval superposed white spots. Hind- 

 w'tncj crossed by a similar broad white band ending decreasingly in a narrow bar at 

 the lower median veinlet, the entire band being prominently and diffusedly bordered 

 externally to the anal angle by smalt-blue, followed by an intermarginal row of 

 slender smalt-blue lunules ; base of abdominal margin bluish-grey. Underside. 

 Basal area greenish-grey, outer area pale olive-green ; basal black-lined marks very 

 prominent, transverse white band and subapical, spots as above, narrowly edged with 

 dark olive-green ; submarginal lunular fascia on forewing narrow, blackish, and 

 bordered posteriorly by a cluster of pale blue scales ; submarginal fascia on hind- 

 wing ill-defined and diffused. Body and palpi above dark bronzy olive-green, below 

 and legs pale olivescent-grey ; antennae above brown, below reddish. 



Expanse, c? 4 to 4^^, ? 4f\) inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Bhotan. 



Variety. — We possess a male from Sikkim, taken by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, which, 

 on the upperside of the forewing, has the interspace between the middle and end cell- 

 marks pale bluish-white speckled, thus forming a distinct pale transverse bar, and on 

 the hindwing there is a pale bluish-white speckled fascia extending before the white 

 discal band broadly from the costa and vanishing posteriorly to the lower median 

 veinlet in clusters of bluish-green scales. 



Distribution. — " This species used to be fairly common in Sikkim, but owing to 

 the great destruction of the forests for the cultivation of tea, it has become in recent 

 years very scarce. Mr. Otto Moller obtained it from June to August at from 30(J0 

 to 5000 feet elevation. It is still fairly common in Bhotan " (de Niceville, Sikkim 

 Gazetteer, 1894, 143). 



LABRANGA DUDA (Plate 247, fig. 1, la, b, ^J ? ). 



FMthalia Duda, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 152, pi. 53 (1886). de Niceville, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, 

 p. 455. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 358. 



Male. — Upperside very dark bronzy sap-green ; basal black-lined marks indis- 

 tinct. Forewing crossed by an obscure broad diffused black inner discal, a submar- 

 ginal, and a narrow marginal fascia ; a slightly oblique medial discal narrow white 

 macular band extending from the costa to posterior margin, the portion from the 

 lower median being sometimes of a smaller size, less defined and sullied with greenish- 

 white speckles ; two small white spots also before the apex. Hindwing crossed by an 

 inwardly -oblique, regularly decreasing nearly even-edged discal white band, which is 

 externally bordered by smalt-blue ending posteriorly in olive-green scales, beyond 



