410 LYCANIDZ. CHERITRA,. 
wings white with a grayish shade covered witha slight lustre. Forewing has the exterior [costal] 
and posterior [outer] borders ferruginous, the tint being faint and diffuse interiorly, but more intense 
in contact with the margin ; a very delicate discoidal line, a complete undulated striga behind the 
disc composed of interrupted lineolz, and a very obsolete row of spots within the posterior 
margin are of the same colour, Hindwing has beyond the disc a very delicate black striga 
composed at the costal extremity of interrupted lunules, and in the anal region of arcuated 
marks disposed in regular succession ; then follows a delicate interrupted streak passing in 
a curve over the entire surface of the wing, and exteriorly of this, just within the margin in 
the costal [outer] extremity, a macular series of four oblong obsolete brown spots followed by five 
diversified spots of an intense black tint pervading the anal region ; the extreme ones on each 
side being linear, the next adjoining interiorly large, angular, subocellated, one of them 
being situated in the marginal series near the notch, the other on the anal appendage ; the 
fifth, which is oblong and somewhat removed from the margin, occupies the medial space 
of the anal region; these spots are all covered along their inner edge by marks cor- 
responding to their individual form of greenish silvery atoms, forming by their union an 
undulated streak passing along the inner boundary of the anal region. Body above and 
underneath agrees in colour with the adjoining portion of the wings. Zegs white with distant 
white [black] bands, but the tarsi are closely banded. Awtenne brown, with a faint grayish cre- 
nulation along the inner groove. yes edged with white. Pa/pi beneath white. Zzz/s white 
with a black medial streak. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing, immaculate. AHindwing with 
a broad snow-white band separating the anal from the middle region ; it consists of three oblong 
spots, of which the exterior one is narrow and passes obliquely towards the margin ; a very large 
lunule of the same colour occupies at the margin the extreme space between the tails.” 
(Horsfield, 1. c.) The FEMALE may at once be known from the male on the upperside of both 
wings by lacking entirely the beautiful purple gloss which is visible in certain lights in the 
male, as well as by the much greater size of the white markings towards the anal angle of the 
hindwing. 
Mr. Doherty records this species from “ Jhulaghat, Gori, and the Kali Valleys, 2-3,000 
feet,” all in Kumaon. I was previously unaware of C. /reya being found to the west of Bhutan, 
where it iscommon, though it may occur in the Sikkim tarai. It occurs throughout Assam, 
in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, through Burma to the Malay Peninsula, and in Java and 
Borneo. 
958. Oheritra jaffra, Butler. (PLATE XXIX, Fic. 226 ¢). 
Myrina jaffra, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, pp. 34, 36, figs. 2, 2a, female ; Cheritra pseudojafra, 
Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 110 (1881). 
HasitaT : Kanara, Karwar, Western slopes of the Nilgiris, Wynaad, Travancore, Ceylon. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1°6tolI* 9, 1°5 to 1°8 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: FEMAL . “ Differs from C. /reja, Fabricius, in having the subanal black 
band on the UPPERSIDE of the Aindwing nearly dividec in the middle, thus forming two 
quadrate spots ; on the UNDERSIDE [of both sexes] it differs in the almost entire absence of 
yellow colouring in the forewing, and in the addition of a small intermacular subanal spot 
{in the submedian interspace] in the hindwing.” (Butler, 1. c.) 
Of the characters given above as distinguishing this species, I find that the coloration 
of the underside is the only constant one, all the rest being variable. This single charac- 
ter is very slight, and it would perhaps be better to have treated C. jaffva as a local race 
only of C. /reja. I do not understand how Mr. Moore could have described C, pseudojafra asa 
distinct species. My Ceylon specimens are identical with South Indian ones of C. jafra. Its 
description is appended.* Iam not certain if Mr. Butler intended his name to stand for this 
Cheritra pseudojafra, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. r1o (1881). Hasrrat: Ceylon. Expanse: Male, 
1-6; female, V7 inches, Description: * MALE, Urrersive, doth wings purplish violet-blue, olivaceous-browa 
