LYCANID. CHERITRA. 409 
first median nervule and a short one fromthe submedian nervure; anal angle excavated 
above the lobe. Male with a tuft of fine hair covering a glandular patch between the base 
of the costal and subcostal nervures ; costal nervure arched at the base ; first subcostal nervule 
at one-third before the end of the cell ; dsco-cellular nervules outwardly oblique, discoidal 
nervule from their middle ; discoidal cell broad ; second median nervule from immediately 
before the end of the cell, fs¢ median at nearly one-half before the end; sadmedian nervure 
nearly straight; ¢éermal nervure much recurved. Bopy moderate; fa/sz porrect, second 
joint long, squamose, extending half length beyond the head, third joint one-fourth its 
length, slender ; /egs squamose, short; andenne gradually thickened to the end, tip pointed, 
Type, C. jafra,’ Godart [=C. freja, Fabricius]. (A/oore, 1. c.) 
In the forewing the costal nervure terminates opposite to the apex of the discoidal cell ; 
the base of the second subcostal nervure is nearer to the base of the first subcostal than it is 
to the base of the upper discoidal ; the third subcostal originates just midway between the apices 
of the cell and of the wing ; the middle disco-cellular nervule springs from the upper discoidal 
close to its base, is a little shorter than the lower disco-cellular, and is slightly concave ; the lower 
disco-cellular is nearly straight, both are upright ; the second median nervule originates near 
the lower end of the discoidal cell ; the inner margin is distinctly sinuous, being excavated in the 
middle. In the hindwing of the male is a brush of dark hairs springing from the base of the 
subcostal nervure and lying anteriorly across the subcostal interspace, and there is a small 
glandular oval white patch of scales beneath the area covered by the hairs, as stated by 
Mr. Moore. The palpi in the female are much longer than in the male. The eyes are naked. 
As far asI am aware, this genus contains but two species, or perhaps it would be better 
to say, one species and a local race, It occurs in the north-east of India, Burma, the Malay 
Peninsula, and in two of the Malay islands, and again in South India and Ceylon. It is pro- 
bably only to be found in forests, and frequents the lower trees and bushes. The great length 
of its pure white tails makes it a conspicuous object on the wing. Its flight is not very 
rapid, It has two well-marked seasonal forms in Northern India. 
Key to the species of Cheritra. 
A. Underside of forewing and outer margin anteriorly of hindwing washed with ochreous. 
957. C. FREJA, Kumaon, Bhutan, Assam, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo. 
B. Underside of both wings almost entirely white. 
958. (CC. JAFFRA, South India, Ceylon, 
957- Cheritra freja, Fabricius. 
Hesperia freja, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. i, p. 263, n. 19 (1793); Myrina freja, Butler, Proc. Zool, 
Soc. Lond., 1867, pp. 34, 36, figs. 1, ra, female ; idem, id., Cat. Fab. Lep. B. M., p. 183, n. 2 (1869); id., 
Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1878, p. 834 ; Sithon freja, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 351, 0. 33 
id., Staudinger, Ex. Schmett., p. 277, pl. xcv, wzale (1888) ; Cheritra freja, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 251, n. ty 
pl. xx, fig. 10, female (1885); id., Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 43 (1886); Myrina 
jaffra, Godart, Enc, Méth., vol. ix, p. 593, n. x (1823) ; id., Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co., p. 118, n. 48 (1829) ; 
id., Lucas, Lep. Ex., p. 85, pl. xliti, fig. 4, Zeveade (1836) ; Cheritra ja/ra, Doherty, Journ. A. S B., vol. ly, pt. 2, 
P- 127, n. 135 (1886) 5; Myrina jaffra, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. 1. Co., pl. ii, figs. 5, 5a, female imago; 56-e, struc- 
ture of imago (1829) ; id., Guérin-Méneville, Icon. Rég. An., Ins., p. 489, pl. Ixxxi, figs. 3, female imago ; 3@-ey 
structure of imago (1844); id., Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of India, vol. i, pl. i, structure of imago (1882), 
Hapitar: Tranquebar (/adricius), Kumaon, Bhutan, Assam, Burma, Malay Peninsula, 
Java, Borneo. 
EXPANSE: ¢,1°5 to1'g; 2, 1°4 to 20 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “* MALE, UPPERSIDE, both wings blackish-brown, covered with a beautiful 
saturated cupreous gloss slightly varying to purple. ovewing immaculate. Aindwing with the 
anal extremity black separated by a regularly transverse boundary, marked with two white spots, 
one large, lunulate and marginal, the other oblong, narrow, and exactly opposed to the exterior 
one at the inner boundary of the anal region ;a short white line at the extreme inner margin near 
the base, indicating the interior attachment of a small brush-like appendage, UNDERSIDE, doth 
