486 LYCANIDA. SINTHUSA, 
regular curve. //indwing more brilliantly glossed with rich purplish-blue, costa and inner margin 
light brown. The purple of the wings is edged with black towards the costa, and it terminates 
towards the inner margin in a narrow detached purple stripe ending just outside the anal spot, 
and edged on both sides with black. C7/ia and the short and slender ¢ai/ are black, the anal lobe 
is black, dusted with sky-blue in the middle, and marked with an orange spot on its inner edge. 
Unpersipe, both wiitgs dull bluish-grey, shading into rufous-brown on the hind margins, two 
parallel dashes of the same colour at the end of the cells, and two narrow black lines filled up 
with orange crossing the wings beyond the middle, on the forewing they are nearly straight, and 
on the hindwing irregular, forming a right angle totvards the anal angle, above which, near the 
middle of the inner iiiargin, is a blackish spot. A/¢#dw7¢ng with the anal and caudal spots deep 
black, bordered within with orange and outside by a light grey line, and there are some indis+ 
tinct dark submaiginal markings above theme The neighbourhood of the anal spots is irregularly 
dusted with silvery blue. FEMALE. Uprrrsibt, doth wings rufous:brown. Forewing with 
the marginal third darker. Aindwinzg with the hinder half of the hind margin bluish-white, 
intersected by a narrow black line at the base of the cilia ; within this line are three black 
spots between the nervules, preceding the anal spot ; the markings towards the anal angle do 
not differ from those of the male. UNDERsitDE, both wings as in the miale. Cilia white. 
Antenne ringed with black and white; the club black, tipped with orange, and preceded (in thé 
female only) by 4 long white spot on the underside.” 
® Not closely allied to any known species.” (Kirby, 1. c.) With regard to this last remark, 
Mr. Kirby could hardly have known of the existence of S, #asaka, Horsfield, to which this 
species is evidently very closely allied. I include it amongst the Indian species of the genus on 
the strength of specimens obtained by Mr. Doherty at Myitta, inthe Tenasserim Valley, and 
at Mergui, Burma, in the cold weather. Mr. Doherty remarks of it ‘* Distinguished from 
5. nasaka by the richer blue of the forewing, and the much broader blue area of the hindwing. 
I am uncertain as to the position of the genus. It may possibly be better placed next to 
fypolycena, Felder.” I have not seen a specimen of the species. 
1017. Sinthusa chandrana, Moore. 
Hypolycena chandrana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc: Lond:, 1882, p. 249, pl. xi, figs. 2, 2a, male ; id., ae 
Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol: lii, pt. 2, p. 78, n. 18, pl. ix, fig. 1, female (1883); Chliaria chandrana, 
Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lili, pt. 2, p. 33 (1884); Hypolycena grote’, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1883, p. 527; pl. xlix, fig. 5, male ; Sinthusagrotei, id., Journ. Ai §: B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 34 (1884). 
Hapirat : Himalayas, Assam, Upper Burma. 
EXPANSE: 6, 2, 1:0 to 1'3 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ** Allied to H. [=.S.] #asdkd, Horsfield. Mawr: UPPERSIDE, both wings 
violet-brown. /vew27ig with the lower basal and discal areas dull violet-blue, and the medial 
- area of the Az#dw7itg purplish violet-blue ; marginal line and anal lobe black. UNDERSIDE, 
both wings olive-grey. Forewing with a broad disco-cellular slenderly=black-lined white-bordered 
streak, a similat broken discal band and a similar marginal nartowe+ lunular band. Avndwing 
with a similar disco-cellular streak, adiscal band, which is brokén beyond the cell and bent 
tipwards above the anal angle, and a marginal dentated band ending in a large red spot and 
the anal lobe ahd an intervening streak, the spot and the anal lobe black-centred, the streak with 
metallic-gréen borders 3 a white-bordered black spot on the costa near the base, another at the 
end of the cell, and a less distinct spot above the anal angle. Cilia whitish.” (d/oore, 1. c. in 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882.) * FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wites dull uniform fuliginous, the 
anal lobe (as in the male) black with an ochreots and metallic green spot. UNDERSIDE, both 
wings paler than in the male, being almost pure white, the markings similar but also paier and 
more diffuseds”’ 
“© This species is very near to the Javan Zhecla malika, Horsfield (Cat. Lep. E. I. Cos, p. 904 
n, 22, 1829).” (de Nicéville, 1. c.) It is glossed with golden bronze above as in S. nasaka. 
Mr. Moore in describing this species says that it is allied to the Zhecla nasaka of Hors 
field. Necessarily so, as the two species are in the same genus, but he should have said how 
