LYCANIDA, BINDAHARA. 475 
‘Only one fine male was collected of this species, so distinct owing to the dark colour or 
its upperside, It is most nearly related to 4. [=B.] zsadel/a, Felder, from Amboina, and with- 
out doubt it is a representative form, but it has the size of the Javan species, I. sugriva, Hors- 
field. The want of the cyaneous blue spots on the outer margin of the hindwing, apart from 
the totally different underside, allows one easily to distinguish it.” (Z%/der, 1. c., p. 481.) 
“FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings brownish-fuscous. Aindwing with the anal border and 
the tail whitish, a large spot at the base of which and the anal lobe blackish. UNDERSIDE, 
both wings whitish. Forewing with a single ochraceous-fulvous fascia beyond the disc cate- 
nulately sinuous, Azzdweng with a slender interrupted flexuous striga beyond the disc, with 
two spots at the base of the tail powdered with blue, and the anal appendage deepest black.” 
“ This stands very close to AZ, [= B.] jolcus, Felder, from Amboina, but a careful com- 
parison sufficiently establishes the difference of the two forms. The fact that the only known 
specimens of JZ. zsabella and areca are all males, while those of MV. jolcus and hamorta are 
females, confirms me in the supposition that here merely the sexes of two species may lie before 
us. The construction of the palpi, in 4/. segriva, zsabella, and areca on the one hand, and in 
jolcus and kamorta on the other hand, differs much, such as we see alsoin bothsexes of other 
allied species. The last joint of the palpi of the female is more than twice as long as in the 
male. [The fact] that A% aveca and kamorta, both of them, differ from J%. zsabelZ/a and jolcus 
in the want of the first fascia on the underside of the forewing, and the spots on the basal half 
of the same side of the hindwing, may speak in favour of the foregoing supposition.” (Feder, 
lc. p. 485.) That is B. areca male and kamorta female are male and female of one species» 
and &. zsabella male and jolcus female are male and female of a second species. 
The male of B. aveca is easily distinguished from that of B. phocides, Fabricius, by all the 
markings of the underside being more or less obsolete instead of prominent, and concolorous 
with the ground instead of rich dark castaneous, The female may also be known by the pale 
ochreous instead of dark brown markings of the underside, the absence of the broad band 
across the middle of the cell of the forewing which is present in 4. phoctdes, and the general 
obsolescence of all the markings, especially on the hindwing. It appears to be a common 
species in the Nicobars, occurring on Kamorta, Nankowri, Kar Nicobar, Little Nicobar, and 
Great Nicobar, 
The figure shews both sides of a male specimen from Great Nicobar in my collection. 
ro1r. Bindahara sugriva, Horsfield. 
Amblypodia sugriva, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C, p. 105, n. 36; Thecla sugriva,id., |. c., pl. i, figs. 
10, 10a, male (1829) ; Myrina sugriva, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C., vol. i, p. 51, n- 89, pl- 
1a, fig. 12, male (1857); Bindahara phocides, Moore (mec Fabricius), Lep. Cey., vol, i, p. 112, pl. xlii, figs. 
3, male; 3a, female (1881). 
HasitaT: South India, Ceylon, Java. 
EXPANSE: ¢@, I'4 to 1°63; Q, 1'2 to 1°5 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘* MALE. Extent of wing proportionally great in the longitudinal direc- 
tion of the body. Uppersip#, doth wings black. Forewing with the extreme costal nervure 
yellowish, and marked near the apex with three delicate oblique black lines. Aindwing 
narrow, gradually tapering to the anal extremity, with a single marginal notch near the 
base of the tail; with a broad cyaneous marginal band varying according to the aspect 
to saturated sea-green, terminating at asmall distance from the outer apical angle ; inner 
margin brown from the base to the middle, then yellowish-gray and inthe anal region 
orange, which colour extends to the extremity of the tail ; there are two black lunules in 
the anal region, one exterior near the marginal notch, one on the anal appendage. UNDERSIDE, 
both wings ochraceous-brown, with spots and bands of a more saturated colour bordered 
throughout with a delicate yellowish line. Fvrew7ng bearing an oblong spot near the base, a short 
transverse stigma on the disc, and three, broad transverse bands; the first, at a small 
distance from the base, dimidial, abruptly terminated at the anal areola, the next a little 
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