LYC/ENID/E. CATAPCECILMA, 423 
DESCRIPTION : ‘MALE. UPPERSIDE, d0fh wings smoky purplish-black, obscurely shot 
with purple in some lights. Forewing with the lower discal and basal areas powdered with 
dull blue scales, which are obsolete in some specimens. Hindwing with two very fine silvery 
lines on the margin at the anal angle. 7Zav/s black, tipped with white. Cilia blackish, marked: 
with white towards the anal angle of the forewing, and throughout the hindwing. UNDERSIDE, 
both wings chrome-yellow, densely and evenly striated with black, and with. scattered 
greenish-silvery metallic spots and streaks, some of which form a marginal series. FEMALE. 
UPPERSIDE, forewing pale blue, with the costa, the apex widely, and the outer margin 
blackish. Azndwing with all but the outer margin, which is blackish, pale blue; towards 
the anal angle there is first a fine pale blue line, then a yellow one defined on both sides by a 
black one, and then another pale blue line. UNDERSIDE, doth wings as in the male.” 
(de Nicéville, \. c. in Journ. A. S. B.) 
Mr. Otto Moller possesses five males and five females of this species taken in Sikkim 
in April aud May, and the type male, also obtained by him, is in the collection of the Indian 
Museum, Calcutta ; my own collection contains two males and a female. It appears to be a very 
rare species, and strictly confined to Sikkim. 
What is almost certainly a third species of the genus has been described from Malacca 
as below.* Though the inner tail at the anal angle of the hindwing is missing, it agrees in the 
general style of its coloration and markings with the two known species. The sex of the type 
specimen is not stated, but from Mr. Distant’s figure of it I should judge it to be a female. 
Below will be found a description of the genus Semanga, Distant.t It is monotypic, a 
single sex only is known, and it occurs in the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. It is said to have 
three subcostal nervules to the forewing. The genus is apparently nearest allied to Catepe- 
cilma, Butler. 
* Catapecilma? bubases, Hewitson. Hypochrysops bubases, Hewitson, Ent. Month. Mag., vol. xii, 
p. 38 (1875); Catapecilma ? bubases, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 459, n. 2, pl. xliv, fig. 26 (1886. Hapirat : 
Malacca. EXPANSE: 1°6 inches. DescripTION: ‘‘ UPPERSIDE, 40th wings cerulean-blue with all the margins 
broadly brown. Hindwing with two slender tails, the outer margin rufous, broadest near the anal angle, where 
it is bordered above and below with silver. UNDERSIDE, doth wings rufous, undulated throughout with black, 
and marked by several irregular black spots, and by numerous small silvery-blue spots, some of which form 
two submarginal bands.” (Hewéitson, |. c.) 
t+ Genus Semanga, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 239 (1884). ‘‘ ForEwinc, somewhat short and broad ; 
costal and outer margins slightly convex, immer margin very slightly concave ; costal nervure terminat. 
ing on the costa a little before the end of the discoidal cell, where it is somewhat recurved ; frst 
subcostal nervule emitted at about one-third before the end of the cell, second subcostal about midway 
between the first and third, ¢#ird subcostal at the end of the cell, third and fourth bifurcating at about two-thirds 
the length of the third ; dzsco-ced/ular nervules somewhat oblique ; third median nervule emitted at about 
the end of the cell, second median emitted about two-thirds nearer the base of the third than the base of the first. 
HinvwinG, subovate ; costal margin rounded at base and then straight and oblique to the apex, afer obtuse, 
posterior margin rounded, very slightly waved or scalloped, with three slender fai/s situated at the apices of 
the median nervules ; aédominal margin concavely excavated a little below [above] the anal angle ; costal nervure 
extending to about the apex ; swbcostal nervules bifurcating a little before the end of the cell, and opposite 
to the apparently common origin of the third and second median nervules ; submedian nervure slightly curved 
outwardly, zzternad nervure strongly curved inwardly. Padéi robust and porrect, the second joint clothed 
with coarse and closely compressed hairs and extending for two-thirds its length before the eyes, apical joint 
much more slender than the second, but moderately robust. Bopy robust.” 
“ Semangea is founded on a species already received from both Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, and its’ 
colour affinities are with Catafecilma, Butler, especially by the metallic markings of the underside of the 
ae , an gacinons| subcostal nervule to the forewing, however, sufficiently separates it from that genus.’’ 
Distant, \. c. 
I have not seen a specimen of any species of this genus, but as described and figured by Mr. Distant it 
differs remarkably from Catapacilma in having the inner tail to the hindwing the longest, the middle tail half 
as long, the outer tail half as long as the middle tail ; in Catapwcilza the inner tail is at the apex of the sub- 
median nervure, in Seszanga it is at the apex of the first median nervule, consequently the outermost tail arises 
from the end of the third median nervule, these being very important structural differences between the two 
genera. The female of the type speciesis alone known, so whether or no the male has secondary sexual 
characters must await solution till that sex is discovered. 
Semanga superba, Druce. Ilerda ? superba, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 350, n. 1, pl. xxxil, 
fig, 11, ? female ; Semanga superba, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 239, n.1, pl. xxi, fig. 13, female (1884). 
Hasitat : Malacca, Borneo. Exeanse: Female, x12 inches. DrscripTion : ‘* UpPERSIDE, Joth wings dark 
lilac-blue, costal and outer margins dark brown. Aindwing with three orange spots close to the anal angle, 
and a narrow white line round the outer margin. UNpversipe, doth wings pale brown. Forewing crossed 
near the middle by arufous band. Aindwing with the apical half red, crossed by a broken blue line, with a 
row of black spots close to the outer margin ; three orange spots at the anal angle,” (Deuce, 1. c.) 
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