LYCANIDA, CHLIARIA, 397 
with Sikkim males, the Sikkim female I have not seen. They are much darker than Mr. 
Hewitson’s figures. My two males were both taken flying in a flock of the common Cyaneris 
puspa, Horsfield, from which I could not distinguish them till I caught them. If this is a case 
of mimicry, it is the first, I believe, yet observed in the Zycedine.” (Doherty, 1. c.) 
A rare species in Sikkim. Mr. Otto Mdller possesses males taken from March to May, 
and in October. Colonel Lang in two years’ collecting in Kumaon took only two specimens, 
one a female at Naini Tal at 6,500 feet on 18th May, 1887; the other a male at Saria Tal, 
5,600 feet, Kumaon,on 13th May, 1888, In both cases C. &¢va was flying amongst C. puspa, 
Horsfield, with which it could easily be confounded. Mr. P. W. Mackinnon has sent mea single 
very small dark male taken at Masuri on 26th May, 1888, and the Rev. Walter A. Hamilton 
has sent me a male and two females from Sylhet. Sikkim specimens of the male are very 
variabie in the extent of the blue area on the upperside. I possess two specimens which agree 
exactly on the upperside with Mr. Moore’s figure and description of C. cachara, but on the 
underside the discal band of the forewing is not continuous as described in that species, 
The figure shews both sides of male specimen from Sikkim in my collection, 
949. Chiiaria cachara, Moore. 
Hyfolycena cachara, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p- 527, pl. xlix, fig. 6, ale ; Chiiaria cachara, 
id., Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 33 (1884). 
HasBitTaT: North Cachar Hills. 
EXPANSE: 4, 1°12 to 1°25 inches. 
DescripTION : “Nearto AH. [= C.] 4ina, Hewitson. MALE. UPPERSIDE, Joth wings 
pale purplish violet-grey. vrewing with the costal and outer borders more narrowly pale 
blue-black than in H. [=C.] iva; no band on the posterior border, a slight spot at the upper 
end of thecell. Aindwing with the costal border slightly pale blue-black. UNDERSIDE. doth 
wings greyish-white. Forewing with a blackish disco-cellular lunular mark, a continuous discal 
band, and two marginal less distinct lunular bands. Aindwing with a blackish disco-cellular 
mark, a discal band composed of three upper portions and a lower zigzag line; two marginal 
less distinct lunular bands and a yellow-bordered black anal and a subanal spot, a small spot 
also on the costal border.” (Jfoore, 1. c. in Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond.) 
I have seen no specimen of C. cachara, but from Mr. Moore’s figure it may perhaps be 
distinguished from C. Aina and C. othona by the blue area of the forewing on the upperside 
being much more extensive, covering the entire surface except the costal and outer margins 
and a spot on the disco-cellular nervules, but the most distinctive character would seem to be 
the discal band on the underside of the forewing, which being continuous would serve to distin- 
guish this species at once from either C. £iza or C. othona, in both of which it is broken. 
950. Chliaria merguia, Doherty. 
C. merguia, Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lviii, pt. 2, p. (1889). 
HaBITAT: Mergui. 
EXPANSE: @, 1°05 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “MALE. UpPERSIDE, doth wings black, dull indigo-blue over half the 
forewing from the costal nervure almost to the lower angle, and over the hindwing from the 
first subcostal nervule to the submedian nervure, this colour is only seen in some lights ; 
tails black, edged and tipped with white ; aval lobe with a marginal white line. C7/éa dark. 
UNDERSIDE, both wings peatl-grey, with a double reddish streak across the end of the cell, 
and a slender straight transverse discal brighter fulvous fascia, very slenderly bordered with 
blackish and whitish lines. Forewing with the apex widely, and the costa slenderly, light 
fulvous-brown, the fulvous transverse discal fascia nearly straight, unbroken, ending on the 
submedian nervure; an obscure darker submarginal line. Cilia dark. Hindwing mostly 
grey, the apex slightly tinged with rufous, the lower and anal part whitish; the fulvous 
transverse discal fascia dislocated inwardly below the third median nervule, and again below the 
