LYCAINID. CHLIARIA. 395 
Eey to the species of Chiiaria. 
A. Both sexes, underside, both wings with the ground-colour white throughout. 
a, Both sexes, underside, both wings with markings rufous; discal band of forewing expanded 
anteriorly, a small round black spot on the costa towards the base of the wing. 
947. C. orHoNA, Himalayas, Assam, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bombay, Andaman Isles. 
4. Both sexes, underside, both wings with markings concolorous with ground-colour, but darker ; 
discal band of forewing not expanded anteriorly, of nearly equal breadth throughout, 
948. C. kina, Himalayas, Assam. 
949. C. CACHARA, Cachar. 
B. Male, underside, both wings with the ground-colour pearl-grey, the apical half of the forewing rufous, 
with a narrow even discal darker rufous band across both wings, 
gso. C., MERGUIA, Burma. 
947- Chliaria othona, Hewitson. 
Hy fpolycena othona, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 50, n. 7, pl. xxii, figs. 17, 18, sale (1865); Chliaria 
othona, Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 33 (1884); id., Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 129, 
n, 142(1886); Ayfolycexa eltola, Hewitson, |. c., Suppl., p. 14, n. 21, pl. v, figs. 37, 38, female (1869) ; id., Moore, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 589; Chliaria eltola, id., Journ. A. S. B., vol. lili, pt. 2, p. 33 (1884). 
Hasirat: Northern India, Andaman Islands (Hewitsow) ; Lower Gori, Eastern Kumaon, 
2,500 feet ; Kapkot, North-Western Kumaon, 4,000 feet ; Myitta, Tenasserim Valley (Doherty) ; 
Sikkim ; Bhutan ; Cachar; Khasi Hills ; Chittagong Hills Tracts ; North Canara, Bombay, 
EXPANSE: ¢@, ‘9 to 1°23; 2, ‘9 to I‘2 inches, 
DESCRIPTION: MALE. ‘* UPPERSIDE, doch wings pale cerulean blue. Forewing with the 
apical half rufous-brown [black]. Aindwing with the apex brown [black]. UNDERSIDE, doth 
wings white, crossed beyond the middle by an irregular band of rufous spots commencing ina 
large spot at the costal margin of each wing, both with a submarginal rufous line. Forewing 
with the costal and outer margins rufous. A/ndwing with a black spot near its base, and 
two black spots near the anal angle, each crowned with orange. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth 
wings rufous-brown, paler towards the anal angle of the hindwing. AHindwing with two tails, 
and some submarginal brown spots and a line of white below them. UNDERSIDE, doth wings 
white, tinted with lilac near the base, a submarginal rufous line. Forewing with a line at 
the end of the cell, a short band beyond the middle from the costal margin, a line below it, 
and the apex, rufous. Aizdwing with a rufous broken band at the middle commencing near 
the costal margin in a black spot, the lobe and a spot outside the tails black, bordered above 
with orange-yellow, the space between them irrorated with silver.” (Hewitson, 1. c.) 
Mr. Doherty remarks as follows on the specimens occurring in Kumaon :—‘* MALE. UPPER- 
SIDE beautifully glossed with dark blue on the forewing beyond the cell, seen only in certain lights. 
FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, the pale blue of the male replaced by a pale gray area from the hind 
margin of the forewing to the second median nervule. Aindwing with a similar area (without 
any trace of blue) extending nearly to the margin, where there is a dark subanal spot with 
fainter ones near it. Marginal black and white edge-lines as in the male. UNDeRrsIDE like 
the male, marks somewhat paler. Aéndwing with the subanal black spot bordered narrowly 
with pale ochre. Wings wider and more rounded than in the male.”’ (Doherty, J. c.) 
Mr. Otto Moller possesses two females of this species from Sikkim ; one, taken in March, 
has the posterior two-thirds of the hindwing on the upperside white, and a discal white patch on 
the forewing, therein agreeing with the above description by Mr. Doherty ; the other specimen 
agrees with Mr. Hewitson’s description of C. etola, being entirely brown on the upperside. 
The Rev. Walter A. Hamilton has given me a female from the Khasi Hills, which agrees with 
the specimens described by Mr. Doherty. On the underside C. othona may be known from 
C. kina in both sexes by the markings being rufous rather than pale fuscous ; the forewing 
having a small round black spot on the costa near the base which is absent in C. ina; the 
disco-cellular mark narrower, formed usually by a single line in the present species, but by a 
double line in C, dina ; the upper portion of the broken discal band fully twice as broad, 
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