414 LYCAENIDE. HORAGA, 
959. Rathinda amor, Fabricius. (PLATE XXIX, Fic. 227 Q). 
Papilio amor, Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 518, n. 321 (1775) ; idem, id., Sp. Ins., vol. ii, p, 113, n. 492 (2781) 5 
idem, id., Mant. Ins., vol. ii, p. 65, n. 610 (1787) ; id., Herbst, Pap., vol. xi, p. 43, n. 89, pl. cccii, figs. 9, 10 
(1804); Hesperia amor, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. 1, p. 260, n. 7 (1793) ; Polyommatus amor, Godart, Enc. 
Méth., vol. ix, p. 620, n. 8 (1823) ; Zephyrius amor, Guérin-Méneville, Icon. Régne Anim., Ins., p. 490, pl. 1xxxi, 
fig. 6 (1844) ; Myrina amor, Butler, Cat. Fab. Lep. B. M., p. 184,n. 6 (1869) ; Rathinda amor, Moore, Lep., 
Cey., vol. i, p. 99, pl. xlii, figs. 1, ra (1881) ; Sithon amor, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett., p. 277, pl. xcv, female 
(1888) ; Papilio triopas, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. iv, pl. ccecxx, figs. G, H (1780); Myrina triopas, Horsfield 
and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. 1. C., vol. i, p. 49, n. 81, pl. xii, fig. 7, Zarva; 7a, pupa (1857); id., Moore, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 776. 
Hasirat : Calcutta (JZoore), Upper Assam, Orissa, South India, Ceylon. 
EXPANSE: ¢@, @, '95 to 1°30 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : MALE and FEMALE: “ UPPERSIDE, doth wings violet-brown. Forewing 
with an ochreous-white spot beyond the end of the cell, and two less distinct smaller spots 
obliquely below it [divided by the second median nervule]. Himdwing with a marginal row 
of red lunules from the anal angle, outwardly bordered by a slender white line [and enclosing 
lunular black spots], UNDERSIDE, Jotk wings pale ochreous-brown or greyish-ochreous. 
Forewing, basal area with ochreous or white-bordered black spots ; a curved white oblique 
black-bordered discal band, and a slender marginal line ; a short waved streak on lower end 
of discal band. Aindwing, basal area with ochreous or white-bordered black spots, a curved 
medial sinuous black line, a more even discal line, anda submarginal line, the latter white 
within, and bordered by metallic-green lunules ; the subanal spaces also black-speckled. Palp; 
brown above, white beneath. Zegs white with black bands.” (JZoore, 1. c. in Lep. Cey.) 
Larva, cylindrical, green, marked on the medial segments in the dorsal region with red- 
dish, furnished with numerous curved fleshy tubercles of varying length. The food-plant 
isunknown, Pupa, green marked with violet, of the usual lyceenid form. 
There is very considerable variation in the markings of the underside of the imago ; in one 
Bombay specimen possessed by me the white ground-colour is entirely replaced by yellow, and in 
all specimens there is a yellow band on the hindwing within the metallic-green band, this band 
often more or less diffused inwardly and spreading on to the basal area of the forewing, obli- 
terating the white ground. There is usually a prominent black spot on the margin of the 
hindwing in the first median interspace. In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, is a single specimen 
from Sibsagar in Upper Assam, obtained by Mr. S. E. Peal ; Mr. Moore has recorded it from 
Calcutta, but I have never met with it in that locality ; in Orissa Mr. W. C. Taylor has taken it 
in February, March and July ; Mr. E. A. Minchin has taken it in Ganjam, and at Bangalore in 
August ; at Karinja, Bombay, it occurs in September and October; Mr, E. H. Aitken states 
that “ 2. amor occurs almost everywhere in Bombay, but is common nowhere. It appears 
at the close of the rainy season. It is fond of taking its stand on the point of a prominent 
leaf, with wings closed and an air of decision not easy to describe. Aphneus has the same 
habit.” Mr. Moore records it also from Canara ; in the Nilgiris Mr. G. F. Hampson reports 
it as being ‘‘ rare on the lower slopes, 2,000 to 4,000 feet,” and in Ceylon it is found in the 
‘¢ astern and Western Provinces, in low country forests during the S.-W. monsoon—May to 
September. Flies about amongst the trees and settles on the leaves. Easily captured ” 
(Hutchison). “ Kandy ; Galle. Common” (Wade). 
The figure shews both sides of a female example from Orissa in my collection, 
Gonus 159.—HORAGA, Moore. (PLATE XXV). 
Horaga, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 98 (1881); id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 459 (1886). 
‘* FOREWING, short, triangular; costa gently arched, afex acute, exterior margin slightly 
oblique, even ; costal nervure recurved; first subcostal nervule emitted at half length of the 
cell, second at one-third, and ¢hird close to the end, fourth from its end ; discotdal cell recurved, 
broad ; disco-cellular nervules nearly erect ; radial [lower discoida/] nervule from their middle ; 
