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Mr. W. C. Taylor has taken it in Orissa in January, August, and September, and lastly Mr. E. A, 
Minchin has found it at Sirur in the Deccan in February, Colonel Swinhoe possesses speci- 
mens from Poona and Mhow also. 
709. Azanus gamra, Lederer. (PLATE XXVI, Fic. 176 ¢). 
Lycena gamra, Lederer, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, vol. v, p 189, pl.i, fig. 3, sale (1855); Azanus 
gamra, Doherty, Journ. A. S, B., vol. ly, pt. 2, p. 132, n. 163 (1886); Azanus crameri, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. 1, 
p. 80, pl. xxxvi, fig. 1 (1881); Azanus ubaldus, Swinhoe (vec Cramer), Proc Zool, Soc. Lond., 1885, p 134, 0. 
72; idem, id.,l.c., 1886, p. 428, n. 56; Lam/fides sigil/ata, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fourth series, 
vol, xviii, p. 483 (1876); Azanus sigillata, id., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1884, p. 483, n, 116 
Habitat: Syria (Lederer); Haldwani, Kumaon (Doherty); Ceylon (A/o0re) ; Poona, 
November and January; Mhow, January, April, and May (Szvinhoe) ; Abyssinia ; White 
Nile; Aden, January and February (ler) ; Punjab; Orissa ; Madras; South India, 
EXxPaNnse: 3, 2, ‘83 to 1°00 inch. 
Description: ‘**MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings pale purple-blue, exterior margins 
defined by a slender black line. Ci/ia white. UNDERSIDE, Joh wings pale brownish-grey, 
outer marginal line black. Fvrewing with a brown basal streak below the costal nervure, 
a white-bordered blackish spot within the cell, and a less distinct spot below it, a disco-cellular 
pale-bordered brown streak, a transverse subapical white-bordered brown band broken at 
its lower end, a marginal row of brown pale-bordered spots, and an inner white submarginal 
lunular line. Ainzdwing with a white-bordered black clavate basal streak, three subbasal 
spots, two spots on the middle of the abdominal margin, a costal spot, and an outer marginal 
row of spots, the two from the anal angle speckled with metallic green; a curved disco- 
cellular and a discal pale-bordered brown catenulated band. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, oth wings 
pale violet-brown, the basal areas pale violet-blue. Forewing with a whitish-bordered brown 
disco-cellular spot. Mindwing with a marginal row of indistinct pale-bordered blackish spots. 
UNDERSIDE, doth wings as in the male. ulpiabove black. Legs with black tarsal bands.” 
‘© This is a comparatively broader insect than A. uba/dus, Cramer, the forewing is also less 
acuminate at the apex, and the underside has additional spots towards the base.” (Afoore, 1. c.) 
The above description applies in every respect to specimens of both sexes of A. samra from 
Beirut, Syria, and A. crameri from Ceylon, and to males of A. sigi//ata from Aden identified 
by Mr. Butler himself, Colonel Swinhce has recorded this species in error in two places as 
A, ubaldus, A. gamra is a very distinct species, the spot in the cell of the forewing on the 
underside in both sexes and usually the spot below it (in some examples this latter is wanting) 
serving at once distinguish it from 4. wba/dus and A. wranus, In addition to the localities given 
above, I have specimens from Umballa, Orissa, Ganjam, Dumagadin, Bhadrachallam, Banga- 
lore, and Radgodi. It does not appear to occur anywhere in Bengal proper or to the eastwards. 
In Ceylon it occurs at “ Colombo, in cinnamon gardens, local, rare” (Hzudchison), and at 
* Hambantotte, June, among bushes, common” (/Vade). Mr. G. F. Hampson says that it is 
‘found rarely on the plains at the foot of the Nilgiri Hills.’ Mr. W, Doherty informs me that 
he has taken it at Muscat in Arabia. 
The figure shows both sides of a male example from Bangalore in my collection, 
Genus 113.—ORTHOMIELLA, nov. (PLATE XXVI). 
FOREWING, costa evenly and gently curved throughout, afex rather acute, outer margin 
convex, zzmer margin rather sinuous, zzwer angle acute, produced ; costal nervure ending 
opposite the apex of the discoidal cell; first subcostal nervule completely anastomosed with 
the costal nervure, into which it runs immediately after its origin, the costal nervure being 
bent downwards to meet it, again becoming free and reaching the margin some distance 
beyond the apex of the cell ; secod subcostal with its base nearer to the base of the first 
subcostal than to the base of the upper discoidal ; ¢hi#d subcostal originating midway be- 
tween the apices of the cell and the wing ; mddle disco-cellular nervule slightly outwardly 
oblique, concave ; J/ower disco-cellular of the same length as the middle disco-cellular, 
slightly inwardly oblique, concave ; second median nervule originating some little distance 
