290 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker on 



dash from the costa to the end of the cell ; postmedian line composed 

 of two confluent spots on the costa, a spot between veins 5 and 6 

 projected right out into the submarginal row, two confluent spots 

 between veins 3 and 5 below the first two, and two confluent spots 

 between veins 1 and 3 ; these are shifted inwards, and the lower 

 spot is quite small, outside these is the submarginal, very even row 

 of six moderate-sized internervular spots, this being roughly parallel 

 with the terminal row of six smaller internervular spots; termen 

 finely dark. Secondaries with a broad basal band right across the 

 wing; four subbasal large spots below each other, the upper 

 three more or less confluent, a spot closing the cell ; postmedian 

 series consisting of three pair of confluent spots followed by one 

 on the inner margin, the second i)air of spots is shifted outwards; 

 submarginal row composed of seven internervular spots, the third 

 from the costa being large on account of its coalescence with the spot 

 projected out from the jjostmedian series ; terminal row composed 

 of six spots, the two anal ones having a very few superimposed 

 blue scales that are easily rubbed off^ ; termen finely dark. 



9- Entirely brown in both wings; a whitish cloud in the discal 

 area, the underside discal pattern showing through. In the secon- 

 daries there is a prominent terminal row of dark spots edged in- 

 wardly with pale dashes. Underside like the male. 



Genitalia : the clasps are shovel-shaped, broad, with the whole 

 of the upper and apical margins irregularly and widelj' serrate, the 

 apical margin being somewhat concave; the bristles are very fine 

 and very few; a sclerite arises from the base of each clasp as in 

 theophrastus, but is longer and stouter, extending along two-thirds 

 of tlie upper margin ; the cingulum is amjile ; the tegumen is deei)ly 

 excised with long, strong falces ; the bristles are more numerous 

 than on the clasps, but are very fine ; the aedoeagus is moclei'ately 

 long, stout, and tapering to a fine tip near the apex ; it is provided 

 with two long sclerites, lying internally, one on each side, the vesica 

 is furnished with two rather long hairy brush-like processes — like a 

 fox's tail — -which are capable of inflation and then assume an almost 

 spherical shape; the tectorius is small, being reduced to a broad 

 column thrown right back in the rear of the clasps. The androconia 

 are proximally asymmetrically ovate with the foot-stalk given off 

 slightly sideways; the sides are very slightly curved; the distal 

 extremity being slightly and evenly convex; there are sixteen or 

 seventeen closely placed lamina whose sculpturing is irregular and 

 rather small. 



This well-known Indian species is easily recognised from 

 all its neighbours but one, for here also I have found two 



