392 LYCASNIDAL. ° HYPOLYCENA. 
described it from the Andaman Isles as a distinct species in 1877, and still (1884) maintains its 
distinctness. I can however discover absolutely nothing to separate it from the parent species 
in either sex. I append, however, his description of 4. andamana for reference.* 
945. Hypolycana thecloides, Felder. 
Myrina theclofdes, Felder, Wien, Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, pe 395, 0. 3 (1860); Hyfolycena thecloides, 
Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 49, n. 4, pl. xxii, figs. 9, 10, #ale (1865); id., Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, 
Journ, A. S. 8., vol. li, pt. 2, p. 17, n. 47 (1882) ; id., Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 31 (1884) 5 id, 
Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 257, n. 4, woodcut m 78, male (1885) ; p. 462 (1886). 
HasitaT: Nicobar Isles, Mergui Archipelago, Sunjei Ujong, Singapore. 
EXPANSE: 6, I°1 to 1°43. 9, 1°2 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “ MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings fuscous. Hindwing two-tailed, a fulvous 
anal fascia. UNDERSIDE, doth wings glaucous-whitish, a geminate discal litura and an external 
streak continuous on the forewing, twice refracted on the hindwing, golden circled with whitish, 
Forewing outwardly fulvescent, AMinadwing with a concolorous subcostal spot and a pair anal 
black, the outer in a fulvous areole.” 
‘Coloured like Zhecle, to which it is not at all unlike.” 
“‘This species and those allied to it—JAZrina [= Hypolycena] erylus, Godart, and 
[A] sifylus, Felder—recede from A/yrina by the shorter head to the second joint of the palpi, 
by the long acicular arched third joint, and by the slenderly clubbed antenne.” (e/der, 1. c.) 
*©On the underside this species scarcely differs from 4. amasa [Hewitson,= Zeltus etolus, 
Fabricius]. I have not seen its female.’’ (ewitson, 1. c.) 
There is hardly any difference between the sexes in A. ¢hecloides. The female has the apex 
of the forewing somewhat truncate; in the male it is acute. The late Mr. F. A. de 
Roepstorff and Mr. E, H. Man have obtained it at Nankowri, Katschall, and Great Nicobar 
in the Nicobar Isles, and Dr. Anderson obtained a single female in the Mergui Archipelego 
in December. 
946. Hypolycwna nilgirica, Moore. (FRONTISPIECE, Fics. 123 ¢, 124 @). 
H. nilgirica, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 527, pl. xlix, fig. 8, sale; idem, id., Lep. Cey., 
vol. iii, p. 531, pl. ccx, figs. 3, 36, male; 3a female (1887); Chkliaria niigirica, id., Journ. A.S. B., vol. liii, 
pt. 2, p. 33 (1884). 
HasitraT: Coonoor, Nilgiris ; Jaffna, Northern Province of Ceylon, 
EXPANSE: @,1'2to 1°33; 2, I'I inches. 
DESCRIPTION: MALE, UPPERSIDE, doth wings rich reddish-brown, glossed with purple 
in some lights. Cz/éa ashy. AHindwing with three orange lunules, the anterior one very small, 
the two posterior ones with round black spots placed outwardly against them; a fine white 
anteciliary line at the anal angle ; the abdominal margin pale fuscous, heavily fringed with 
white. UNDERSIDE, doth wings chalk white. Forewing with a narrow fuscous litura closing 
the cell; a discal catenulated band midway between the end of thecell and the outer margin; 
its four upper spots rounded, the four lower ones linear and shifted inwards, a submarginal 
series of lunules, the margin washed with very pale fuscous, Cz/éa cinereous. Hindwing 
with a subbasal black dot above the discoidal cell ; an oval intensely black subcostal spot placed 
* Hypolycena andamana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 589; idem, id., Journ, A. S. B., 
vol. lili, pt. 2, p. 31 (1884) ; H. exydus, Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. xlix, pt. 2, p. 232, 
n. 44 (1880). Hasirar: South Andaman Isles. Expanse: Male, 1°25 ; female, 1°37 inches. DESCRIPTION ? 
© Mace. Uppersipg, doth wings ultramarine blue. Forewing with a large black discal patch. Hindwing 
with abdominal margin dusky brown, the cidia grey, marginal anal streak and edge of tails white, anal lobe 
with a small reddish spot. UNDERSIDE, Jeth wings greyish-blue, a brown discal transverse band, straight on 
Jorewing, broken and zigzag on Aindwing, a small black anal and a red-bordered black subanal spot. FEMALE. 
UppersinE, doth wings brown, with an indistinct median transverse curved darker band. A/indwing with 
white marginal outer line, discal lunular marks, and three black spots from anal angle, the first golden-speckled, 
Unpersib¢, doth wings as in the male, but slightly paler greyish-blue.”’ 
** Allied to H. erylus, Godart.’" (Moore, 1. c.) 
i ) Absolutely indistinguishable from fresh Sikkim specimens [of H. erylus],’’ (Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, 
. c. 
