LYCAINID/E. CHARANA. 401 
shape, yellowish-green ; head and thorax emerald-green. Described from Horsfield and 
Moore’s figures. 
I find a good deal of variation in the coloration of the underside in the males. In some 
specimens from South India the pale inner margin of the forewing is very sharply defined, 
while the basal and discal areas of the hindwing within the discal fascia are entirely testaceous ; 
this is the darkest form. In other specimens from Orissa and the Wynaad the testaceous color- 
ation is almost entirely absent, being confined tothe costal and outer margins of the fore- 
wing; thisis the lightest form. Almost every gradation exists between these extremes, which 
consequently cannot be separated off as distinct species. On the upperside also there is some 
variability in the extent of the bluish-white areas on both wings. 
** Very common at low elevations in Sikkim. It flies rapidly, and on the wing at once 
reminded me of one of the common blue-bodied Dragonflies that abound everywhere near 
water. Is it possible that a butterfly has ‘ mimiced’ a Lidellula ?” (de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., 
vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 59, n. 105, 1881). 
Occurs commonly in Sikkim at low elevations in October and November, the male much 
more often seen than the female. As may be seen from the habitat above, Z. e¢o/us has 
a wide range, and appears to be nowhere rare where it occurs. 
The figure shews both sides of a male specimen in my collection from Sibsagar in 
Upper Assam. 
Genus 163.—CHARANA, nov. (PLate XXVIII). 
Nearest to Zajuria, Moore, with which it agrees in neuration, and in the absence of 
secondary sexual characters in the male. Differs from it in having the inner tail to the 
hindwing from the termination of the submedian nervure about twice as long in the male, 
more than twice as long in the female, as the outer tail at the termination of the first median 
nervule. yes smooth. Type MWyrina mandarinus, Hewitson. 
Mr. Moore places the type species of Chavana inthe genus Sithon, Hiibner, from which, 
of course, it is abundantly distinct. In the same genus he also places the 7ajuria jalindra of 
Horsfield andallied species, to which Charana mandarinus, Hewitson, has a strong resemblance 
in coloration and markings. The male is black on the upperside, the lower discal areas and 
base blue ; the female is without any blue coloration on the upperside, but has a large patch of 
white towards the anal angle of the hindwing, enclosing some large black spots. The underside 
of both sexes is pale yellow on the basal two-thirds of the wings, the outer one-third red- 
brown, It is more than probable that other species will be found to belong to this genus, 
when the many described species of this group shall be carefully examined. 
952. Charana mandarinus, Hewitson, (PLATE XXVIII, Fic. 222 ¢). 
Myrina mandarinus, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 28, n. 4, pl. xi, figs. 6, 7, female (1863). 
HABITAT: Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam. 
EXPANSE: $,1°6 to 1°8; 9, 1°8 to I'9 inches. 
DEsCRIPTION : ‘* MALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing brown [black], with a large spot of dull ceru- 
lean blue from the base to beyond the middle, bounded by the inner margin and the first media 
nervule. Ainézwing cerulean blue, the costal margin and apex broadly brown [black], one or two 
spots at the base of the tail, and one at the anal lobe, black. UNDERSIDE, both wings yellow. 
Forewing crossed beyond the middle by a triangular rufous band ; from the band to the 
outer margin rufous, paler, crossed by a submarginal band of rufous-brown. Hindwing with 
a broad rufous band, and a submarginal band of the same colour from the costal margin to 
the middle ; the caudal spot (which is crowned with orange), the spot at the anal lobe (which 
is crowned with blue), some zigzag lines above them, and the outer margin, black. Cz/ia 
white. FEMALE. UPPeRsIDE, doh wings rufous-brown. Hindwing with the anal angle 
broadly white, marked with three large black spots, the outer margin and the middle of the 
ails black, Ciia white.” UNDERSIDE, doth wings as in the male, (Hewitson, 1. Ce) 
