220 LYCANIDZ. SURENDRA. 
female is glossed with steely-purple on the upperside, a very abnormal feature in this genus, 
S. florimel, Doherty, is even more distinct. The male is much more richly purple-blue than the 
other species of the genus; the female is fuscous on the upperside as in the same sex of 
S, guercetorum ; both sexes, however, have no tail or anal lobe whatever, thus entirely departing 
from the normal structure of the other species of the genus. The markings of the underside 
of both sexes of all the species of the genus Surendra are highly peculiar and characteristic, 
and by them any species can at once be recognised; they are somewhat approached, how- 
ever, by Zinaspa todara, Moore, and ZL. distorta, de Nicéville. 
Mr. Doherty notes that ** Susendra, Moore, Afporasa, Moore, and a number of Arhopalas 
have hemispherical eggs covered with white globular tubercles and triangular reticulations, six of 
which radiate from each tubercle. Somewhat similar reticulation occurs in some Lycening. 
I must apologise for a former statement* that Swsendsa must be placed in the Zhecline on 
the strength of the egg. At that time I was acquainted only with the spiny form of egg, 
which is the usual one in the Indian species of this group,” (Journ. A. S. B., vol. Iviii, pt. 2, 
p. (1889) 
The genus occurs in the Himalayas, Southern and Eastern India, Burma, Ceylon, the 
Malay Peninsula, and in the Islands of Nias and Java, The transformations of no species are 
known, but Mr. P. W. Mackinnon has seen the female of S. guercetorum laying eggs on a 
species of AZimosa in the Dehra Dun, 
Eey to the Indian species of Surendra. 
A. Male, hindwing with one tail, female with two. 
a. Female, upperside, both wings dull brown, forewing with the middle of the disc paler ; both 
sexes, tails long. 
al. Of large size. 
778. S. QUERCETORUM, Western Himalayas, Assam. 
51. Of smaller size. : 
779. S. BIPLAGIATA, Madras. 
780. S. DISCALIS, Ceylon. 
781. S. LATIMARGO, Andaman Isles. 
4. Female, upperside, both wings strongly glossed with lilac-blue ; both sexes, tails shorter. 
782. S. AMISENA, Burma, Singapore, Nias. 
B. Both sexes, hindwing with no tail, with a tooth only at end of second median nervule. 
783. S. FLORIMEL, Burma. 
778. Surendra quercetorum, Moore. (PLATE XXVII, Fics. 194 3,195 2). 
Amblypodia quercetorum, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E, 1. C., vol. i, p 42, n. 63, pl, ta, 
fig. 7, male (1857); id., Hewitson, Cat. Lycenide B. M., p. 14, n. 63 (1862); id., Staudinger, Ex. Schmett., 
p. 281, pl. xcvi, male and female (1888) ; Surendra guercetorum, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 2513 
id., Doherty, Journ. A. S.B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 130, n. 151 (1886) ; Amdblypodia vivarna, Hewitson (xec Hors- 
field), Cat. Lycenide B. M., pl. vii, fig. 76, femzale (1862). 
HapitaT: Sylhet, N. India, Kangra Valley (Moore) ; Sylhet (Hewitson) ; Bagheswar, 
Lower Ramganga, Gori and Kali valleys, 2,000 to 4,000 feet, Kumaon (Doherty). 
EXxPANSE: &, 1°62; 9, 1°55 inches (Hewitson’s figure). 
DESCRIPTION: MALE. “ UPPERSIDE, do/ wings dark brown, the middle of the wings 
deep purple. Forewing with the anterior and posterior angles pointed. Hindwing with the 
anal angle elongated. UNDERSIDE, both wings brown. Forewing with a series of small dark 
spots near the exterior margin, then an undulating line, and towards the base some indistinct 
spotss Mindwing with a dark brown fascia running from the anterior angle across to middle 
of abdominal margin ; an undulating dark line near the exterior margin, and two small whitish 
elongated spots near the anterior margin.” (AZoore, 1 c. in Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C.) FEMALE, 
UppERSIDE, Joth wings purplish smoky-brown varying in intensity of shade. Forewing with the 
disc and inner margin often paler than the rest of the wing. indzwing, tails brown, sometimes 
tipped with white. UNDERSIDE, both wings as in the male. Described from Sikkim specimens. 
* “The ege clearly shows that the genus [Surendra] is near Thecla, and remote from Amblypodia.” 
(Doherty, Journ, A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 130, m. 151 (1886), 
