314 LYCJENIDJB. 



very often absent. Underside: white. Fore wing: with the 

 following bro\vn markings : a spot in cell, a transverse short line 

 on the discocellulars, a postdiscal curved series of transverse spots 

 or very short bars that cross the wing from costa to dorsum and 

 are in irregular echelon one with the other, followed by a slender 

 transverse broken line, a subterminal series of broader transverse 

 spots and an auticiliary slender line ; at apex of wing the markings 

 are diffuse and form a very small browu-shaded patch, while 

 further inwards along the costa veins 10, 11 and 12 terminate in 

 a minute brown dot. Hind wing : three spots near base in trans- 

 verse order, a large, conspicuous, rounded, subcostal and a smaller 

 similar spot near the middle of the dorsum, black ; between the 

 latter two and also along the discocellulars are some irregular 

 much paler brown transverse spots on the disc, which are followed 

 as on the fore wing by an outer postdiscal, very slender brown 

 line, a subterminal series of brown or black spots, and a black 

 anticiliary line. Cilia of fore and hind wings white, turning to 

 dark brown at apex of fore wing. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen dark brown, the antennae ringed narrowly with white ; 

 beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen snow- white, the third, 

 slender acicular joint of the palpi conspicuously brown. 



Dry-season brood. <5 $ . Very similar to the wet-season brood, 

 but the fore wing on the upperside bears a large, oval, obliquely- 

 placed conical patch that extends from the middle of the dorsal 

 margin to vein 4. In certain specimens * this white bar or 

 patch is continued on to the hind wing. Underside: similar 

 to that of the wet-season form but all the markings broader, 

 coarser, more prominent. Fore wing : costa and apex in some 

 specimens broadly shaded with diffuse fuscous brown ; the 

 outer postdiscal brown line formed into a series of lunules that 

 extend outwards slenderly along the veins and join the anticiliary 

 brown line, thus enclosing in the interspaces a series of spots of 

 the white ground colour, each of which is centred with a black 

 or dark brown subtriangular spot. Hind wing: the terminal 

 markings modified as on the fore wing ; the spot in interspace 3 

 of the subterminal series larger and more prominent than the 

 others, the large subcostal black spot often broken by an anterior 

 and a posterior silvery spot superposed on it. Antenna?, head, 

 thorax and abdomen as in specimens of the wet-season brood but 

 slightly darker above. 



Exp. rf $ 23-33 mm. (0-9-1-3"). 



Hob. The Himalayas from Kumaon to Sikhim ; Peninsular 

 India : Calcutta, Orissa, Ganjam, Poona, the Nilgiris, Travaucore ; 

 Ceylon ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Andamans ; Nicobars ; 

 extending far into the Malayan Subregion. 



* Pathalia. alhidisca (= M. malaya), Moore, type of Moore's genus Pathalia. 



