304 LYCASNID/A. CHLIARIA. 
eed? short, broad ; second and third median nervules from the end of the cell, firs¢ at nearly one- 
half before the end; sudmedian nervure straight ; ifernal nervure recurved; a slender faith 
from the end of the first median nervule, and another from the submedian nervure. Palft 
porrect, second joint stout, third joint very slender; a#éenne witha short spatular club. 
Type, C. othona, Hewitson.” (Afoore, 1. c.) 
In the above desciiption Mr. Moore treats the upper discoidal nervule of the forewing as 
a fourth branch of the subcostal nervure, and admits only one disco-cellular nervule. In the fore- 
wing the costal nervure is highly sinuous, and reaches to about the apex of the discoidal cell ; the 
first subcostal nervule is bent upwards soon after its origin, and for a short distance lies close to, 
but does not quite touch, a portion of the costal nervure; the base of the second subcostal is 
nearer to that of the first than it isto that of the upper discoidal; the disco-cellular nervules 
are almost straight, upright, the middle rather shorter than the lower ; the second median 
nervule originates a little before the lower end of the cell. In the hindwing the costal 
nervure is arched at the base, then straight to the apex of the wing; the disco-cellular nervules 
are of about equal length, the upper is outwardly oblique, straight, the lower is upright but 
concave, the second median nervule is given off immediately before the lower end of the cell. 
The length of the filiform tails seem to be variable, sometimes it is the inner, sometimes the outer, 
which is the longer. The male has no secondary sexual characters. The eyes are finely 
hairy. 
As restricted by me, the genus CA/iaria contains but four species, one of which, C. cachara, 
Moore, seems to me to be very doubtfully distinct. I omit the “ Zyfolycena” chandrana, Moore, 
and the “ Myrina” lisides, Hewitson, as they both possess three subcostal nervules to the fore- 
wing, and the former has secondary sexual characters on both wings in the male, which 
the males of Chiiaria entirely lack, besides possessing only one tail instead of two. Mr. Moore 
placed the former in 1884, and the latter in 1886, in Ch/iaria, but, as stated above, they do not 
agree with his diagnosis of the type species of the genus. The four species which are left in 
Chliaria are small insects, with the ground-colour of the upperside black; in the male of 
C. othona, Hewitson, the basal half of the forewing and nearly the entire hindwing is pale blue ; 
the forewing glossed with rich purple-blue especially on the outer black portion in some lights ; 
the underside is white, with ochreous, brown, and black spots and bands. In C. ina, 
Hewitson, and C. cachara, Moore, the ground-colour of the upperside is also black ; in the 
former there is typically a small patch of bluish-white on the disc on the upperside from 
the base to beyond the middle of the forewing in the male, which patch in C. cachara is said 
to be much larger, and occupies all the forewing except the costa and the outer margin ; 
in the hindwing of C. &zva the posterior half is similarly coloured ; in C. cachara the blue 
coloration is much more extensive. In C. &ma in the male almost the entire surface on the 
upperside is glossed with a rich purple-blue suffusion ; the undersides of C, 4ina and C. cachara 
are very similarly marked to C. othona, but these markings are more concolorous with 
the ground tint and less rufous than in that species. The females of C. othona and C. kina 
differ widely from their respective males, being dull fuscous on the upperside without any trace 
of blue, the discal areas of both wings in C, sma being whitish, this also being sometimes 
the case in the female of C. othona. C. merguia, Doherty, is a very different-looking insect from 
the other species in the genus, though it agrees with them in structure. The upperside is 
black, obscurely glossed with blue ; the underside is grey, with the apical half of the forewing 
and the apex of the hindwing rufous, both wings crossed by a narrow discal even rufous fascia. 
Its resemblance on both surfaces to a very small Ayfolycena erylus, Godart, is very remarkable. 
The female is unknown. 
The genus occurs in the Himalayas, Assam, the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Mergui, Bombay, 
and the Andaman Isles. 
The transformations of no species have been described, though the larva of C. othona, 
Hewitson, has been discovered on one occasion feeding on an orchid. 
