344 LYCAENIDA. MANECA, 
September ; Mr. W, H. Irvine has captured it in considerable numbers at Bholahat in the 
Malda District ; it is fairly common in the winter in Calcutta on the crimson flowers of the 
Poinsettia; Mr. A. V. Knyvett has taken it largely at Dinajpur in June; Mr. S. E. Peal has 
sent me a single specimen from Sibsagar in Upper Assam; and Mr. G. F. Hampson reports 
it as ‘‘ rare on the slopes of the Nilgiris, 3.000-6,000 feet, October. Nilgiri specimens have 
the discal band on the underside not bounded outwardly by a white line, and the markings at 
the anal angle obsolescent as compared with North Indian specimens.” 
goo. Gamona ister, Hewitson. 
Tolaus ister, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 43, n. 13, pl. xix, figs. 15, 16, female (1865). 
HWaBiTaT: India ( Hewitsoz). 
EXPANSE: @, I°3 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : “ FEMALE. UPPERSIDF, Joth wings cerulean blue. Forewing with the 
apical half dark brown. Hindwing with the apex pale rufous-brown. UNDERSIDE, loth wings 
rufous or grey-brown, crossed beyond the middle bya linear band of rufous-brown bordered 
outwardly with grey-white. AMindwing with the apical [anal] spots broadly bordered above 
with orange, the space between them white irrorated with black, and slightly crowned with 
orange.” 
‘This, though a female, has all the characters of a male. It is closely allied to 
7. [=C.] cleobis, Godart, but differs in colour from both sexes of that species. It resembles the 
male of /. cleobis in the position of the band of the underside, less circular than that 
of the female. Its wings are not so broad as are those of the female, and it is without the black 
spots near the anal angle of the hindwing ” [on the upperside]. (Hewtson, 1. c.) 
I find that every character given by Mr. Hewitson as distinguishing this species from the 
female of C. cleodis, Godart, breaks down when compared with my long series of that 
species. In C, cleobis the shade of blue on the upperside is very variable, the wings of 
some specimens are distinctly broader than in others, and on the upperside of the hindwing 
in some specimens there is a complete series of round black spots, as figured by Hewitson, 
sometimes only one or two are present, or all are absent. An examination of the type specimen 
will probably show that it is only a varietal form of. C, cleodis. 
Genus 144.—MANEGOA, nov. (Plate XXVIII). 
Differs from Camena in having the inner margin of the forewing in the male straight, 
not outwardly bowed, and lacking the tuft of hairs attached to the margin present in the 
males of that genus, but agrees with 7a/uria in this respect ; differing from the latter, however, 
but agreeing with Camena, in possessing, in the male, a glandular patch of scales on the 
upperside of the hindwing at the base of the subcostal nervules extending anteriorly into 
the costal interspace, posteriorly into the discoidal cell; outer tail one-third shorter than 
the inner one. Type, Pratapa bholea, Moore. 
The genus, as far as I know, contains but a single species, which is confined to Sikkim. 
The upperside of both sexes is dull slatey-blue with the outer margin black, underside bluish- 
white, marked by a fine discal macular blackish band. The anal lobe to the hindwing on the 
upperside is prominently rich ochreous, on the underside black. AZaneca is exactly intermediate 
between Camena and Zajuria, it disagrees with the former in the forewing, agreeing with it 
in the hindwing ; with regard to 7aju7ia the conditions are reversed, it agreeing with it in the 
forewing, differing in the hindwing. The differences in neuration are so slight that I consider it 
useless to describe them, especially as they would probably not hold good if every species of the 
genera Camena and 7ajuria were examined. 
go1. Maneca bhotea, Moore. (PLavE XXVIII, Fic. 216 2), 
Pratapa bhotea, Moore, Journ, A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 37 (1884). 
HABITAT: Sikkim. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1'3 to 1°4; 9, 1°5 to 1°6 inches. 
