﻿182 LEPIDOPTERA INJJIOA. 



Tliarasia difma (Athyraa diffusa, Leech, Butt, of China, etc., p. 174, pi. 17, 

 fig. 1, c? (1892). Habitat.— C. China. 



Genus CHENDRANA. 



Atlnjma (sect. 1, part), de Nict'ville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 166 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Foreiving subtriangular ; costa well arched from the base ; apex 

 obtusely pointed, exterior margin oblique, sliglitly uneven, posterior margin rather 

 short ; cell area rather broad, open ; first subcostal branch emitted at fully one- 

 third before end of the cell, second at one-eighth before the end; second dis- 

 cocellular outwardly oblique, concave. Hiadvnug conically-ovate ; apex rounded, 

 exterior margin very convex, anal angle rounded, abdominal margin short ; cell 

 area broad, open. Body moderately robust; palpi slender, laxly clothed below, apical 

 joint somewhat slender, pointed ; antennae slender ; eyes naked. Sexes alike. 



Type. — C. Pravara. 



CHENDRANA PRAVARA (Plate 259, fig. 2, 2a, b, c? ?)• 



Athyma Pravara, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 173. pi. 5, a, fig 4, S (1857) ; id. P. Z. S. 

 1858, p. 19. Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 160, pi. 16, fig. 11, $ (1883). de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, etc., ii. p. 170 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside purpurescent-black ; markings bluish- 

 white. Cilia slenderly alternated with white. Forewing with an elongated entire 

 clavate white streak along lower half of the cell ; a transverse discal excurved series 

 of, usually, seven spots, the two upper somewhat elongate and quadrate, the third 

 small, fourth either minute or sometimes obsolete, fifth much larger and broadly 

 ovate, the sixth smaller and slightly indented on its sides, the lowest narrow; beyond 

 is a submarginal row of slender excurved lunules, and a very indistinct 23ale brown 

 marginal line. Eindwing crossed by an inner-discal white band and a narrower 

 outer recurved lunular band, followed by a submarginal pale brown lunular line. 

 Underside pale purpurescent fuliginous-brown, with darker patches Ijetween the veins; 

 markings as above, bluish-white. HIndiving also with an ill-defined narrow basal 

 whitish band, and broader submarginal pale lunular line ; abdominal margin bluish- 

 grey. Body and palpi above black ; thorax and abdomen with a bluish-white band ; 

 palpi and legs beneath greyish-white ; legs above pale brownish-grey ; body beneath 

 bluish-grey; antennge black, tip reddish. 



Expanse, <? 2^-0 to 2j^, ? 2j^ inches. 



Habitat. — Assam ; Khasia and Naga Hills ; Cachar ; Burma ; Tenasserini ; 

 Malay Peninsula, etc. 



