474 LYCENIDA. BINDAHARA, 
UNDERSIDE, 40th wings pure white marked as in the male with dark sepia-brown fascize and 
spots, but with the black caudal spots larger and the cé/éa of the posterior part of the hind- 
wing pure white like those of the tails.” 
“Tt differs from S.[=B.] phocides, female (=S. jolcus, Felder, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. 
Lep., Lycenide, pl. xiii, figs. 16, 17*) in the far less extent of the white patch on the upperside 
of the hindwing, and in the larger size and darker colour of the spots and fasciz, as well as in the 
greater pureness of the white, of the underside generally. A male from the South Andaman 
Isles differs from a specimen from the Indian continent (Sylhet) only in its rather darker and 
more distinctly marked underside. The lighter apical portion of the forewing in the male on the 
upperside has a beautiful bronzy gloss changing to dark purple according to the incidence of the 
light. Both the insular and continental specimens, but especially the former, present slight traces 
of the blue marginal band so conspicuous on the upperside of the hindwing of Javan and Cey- 
lonese examples [the sagviva of Horsfield], in the shape of a small patch of metallic green scales 
on the anterior caudal lobe. The male of this species, with its velvety black upperside, rich dark 
brown underside, and elongated hindwing produced into a long robust buff tail, presents a 
strong contrast to the dull-coloured female with her pure dazzling white underside con- 
spicuously spotted and banded with dark brown, broader wings, and comparatively short and 
feeble white and black tails.” 
“‘ Sithon [Bindahara] kamorta, Felder, is not the female of S. sugriva, var. areca 
[=phocides], as Felder has suggested, but that of a distinct though closely-allied species peculiar 
to the Nicobars, whence the Museum has recently received a specimen of the true male 
differing from S. kamorta just in the same way as S. sugriva male does from its female, which 
appears not to have been previously described.” (Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, \. c. in Journ, 
A. S: B., vol. xlix.) 
Mr. Butler notes that ‘‘ The type of P. phocédes, Fabricius, is in the Banksian Collection 5 
it is not the insect figured by Mr. Hewitson, which is the true female of Felder’s Af. jolcuss 
but it is the female of an Indian representative of Horsfield’s AZ. sugriva, of which we have 
the male.” (Bzt/er, 1. c.) 
B. phocides appears to be fairly common in the South Andaman Isles, but is extremely 
rare on the Continent of India, as I have only seen four specimens, of which three are males, 
ene from Sikkim, one from near Buxa, Bhutan, and one from Sylhet, and one is a female from 
the Khasi Hills inthe collection of the Rev. Walter A. Hamilton. The Indian Museum, 
Calcutta, also possesses a single male example from Perak, and the Phayre Museum, Rangoon, 
another taken in Rangoon in September. 
1o1o. Bindahara areca, Felder. (PLATE XXIX, Fic. 242 ¢). 
Myrina areca, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, vol. xii, p. 481,n. 105 (1862); J. kamorta, id., 
1, Ca» ps 485, n. 121 (1862) ; 7. camorta, Hewitson, Ill, Diurn, Lep,, p. 36, n. 31 (1863). 
Hapirat : Kar Nicobar, Sambelong (Fe/der); Nicobar Isles generally. 
EXpANSE: ¢, 11 to 16; ¢, 1:0 to I°5 inches, 
DESCRIPTION : ‘* MALE. UPPERSIDE, o/h wings purpurascent-blackish. Forewing with 
the outermost part paler. Aéudwing with the anal region, an annexed litura, marked with a 
blue dot near the subanal tooth, and the ¢az/ pale ochraceous. UNDERSIDE, doth wings. 
fulvous-ochraceous, each with a broad discal fascia palely obsolete, with fuscous catenular 
strigee, outwardly circled with whitish. ovewzzg with the external margin, Azzdwing with 
the margin of the apex concolorous, but shining, the latter with more obsolete spots on the 
disc, an anteciliary line and a posterior undulate streak blackish, beyond this four black spots, 
the first two obsolete, the remainder much larger, each one inwardly circled with a metallic 
greenish ring, and a black spot in the anal lobe , 
* The species here referred to is the jolcus of felder, figured under that name by Hewitson from the 
island of Aru, which is almost certainly the female of Felder’s isaéed/a, and is quite distinct from phocides. 
