LYCANID. SURENDRA, 223 
HapitatT: Mergui, Myitta, Burma (Doherty); Singapore (Aewitson and Distant); Nias 
Island (Ahei?). 
EXPANSE: @, 14 to1'5§3 2, 1°4 to 1°5 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “ MALE, UPPERSIDE, J0¢h wings dark violaceous-blue, Forewing with 
the costal and outer margins (very broadly at the apex) dark fuscous. Aindwing with the costal 
and outer margins (the first broadly, particularly at apex, and the second narrowly) dark 
fuscous, the abdominal margin somewhat paler fuscous. UNDERSIDE, doth wings dark brownish, 
the markings dark fuscous. Fvrewizg with a linear spot near the middle and one at the end of 
the cell, a waved and sinuated linear fascia between the end of the cell and the apex of the 
wing, preceded by a subcostal linear spot situated between the first and second subcostal 
nervules, and a submarginal series of small spots placed between the nervules, Aindwing 
with a short broken linear fascia near the base, commencing at the costal nervure and terminat- 
ing near the submedian nervure, a much-waved and sinuated linear fascia more or less out- 
wardly margined with greyish crosses the wing beyond the end of the cell; a submarginal 
series of spots (largest above the third median nervule) placed between the nervules, and three 
metallic greenish marginal spots, more or less centred with black, near the anal angle. Zuail 
fuscous, with the apex greyish-white. Body and gs more or less concolorous with the wings. 
Antenne with the extreme apex ochraceous.” (Distant, 1. c.) FEMALE, ‘“ UPPERSIDE, doth 
wings dull lilac-blue. Forewing with the margins suffused with brown. Aindwing rufous- 
brown, glossed with blue in the middle. UNDERSIDE, forewing with the transverse band 
different from that of 4. [=S.] vivarna, Horsfield, without the angular bends of that 
species, and gradually curved outwards to the middle. Hindwing with the anal angle 
irrorated with dull light blue, with a lunular black spot between the tails.” (Hezwitson, 1. c.) 
Mr. Doherty has given the following note on the specimens of this species he obtained in 
Burma :—“ The female agrees well with Hewitson’s figure, except that the transverse discal 
line of the forewing on the underside is more irregular, and like that of his figure of 
‘ Amblypodia’ vivarna, Horsfield. The male differs from Distant’s figure in being more 
angulate, the forewing being acuminate and slightly falcate. The blue area on the upperside 
varies greatly, sometimes occupying less than a third of the forewing and a sixth of the hind- 
wing, sometimes more than half of the forewing and a third of the hindwing. In this species 
the male has a short tail at the end of the first median nervule, but scarcely more than an angle 
at the end of the second median nervule ; the anal lobe is much smaller than in S. guercetorum, 
Moore. The female has two tails, both slender, the outer the shorter.” 
There can be no difficulty in recognising this species. In both sexes the tails are smaller 
in every way (breadth and length) than in S. guercetorum, Moore, and the female being 
glossed with purple on the upperside is a character quite unique in the genus, as far as I am 
aware. It is very distantly removed from the genus Aagala, Moore, in which Mr. Distant 
placed it, the male having no secondary sexual characters, while Rafa/a has them, and the 
female having two tails, while all Rafalas have but one. 
783. Surendra florimel, Doherty. 
S. florimel, Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lviii, pt. 2, p. (1889). 
HABITAT: Wagung, Tavoy District, Burma. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1°43 9, 1°5 inches, 
DESCRIPTION : “MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings rich purple-blue. Forewing with the 
blue area occupying nearly half the surface, extending from the costal nervure to the inner 
margin, outwardly angled at the third median nervule. Aindwing with the blue area 
extending from just below the second subcostal nervule tothe submedian nervure, leaving 
the upper part of the discoidal cell dark; a narrow black marginal line. UNDERSIDE, oth 
wings with the ground-colour light fuscous-brown as in S. amisena, Hewitson, but with the cell 
and disc of the forewing much darker, and the basal and apical half of the hindwing deep 
violet-brown. forewing with a short oblique dark streak in the middle of the cell, a larger 
