364 LYC.EX1DJE. 



between vein 12 and subcostal vein ; similarly-coloured but some- 

 \vhat paler transverse bars cross the upper discal area of the wing 

 as follows : one on the discocellulars and three beyond, each bar 

 edged internally and externally with white ; below this two 

 elongate brownish white-edged spots placed en echelon, and 

 beyond a slender, unbroken, transverse, postdiscal brown line ; 

 a transverse subterminal series of black spots, each surrounded 

 with white, and a slender anticiliary dark line. In most speci- 

 mens there is also a dusky spot below the cell near the base of the 

 wing. Hind wing : an outwardly oblique short streak from base 

 of cell, a spot below it, a transverse subbasal series of four spots 

 and a complete series of subterminal spots in interspaces 1, 2, 4, 

 5, 6 and 7, jet-black, each spot surrounded with white ; the sub- 

 terminal spot in interspace 3, a terminal small spot in interspace 7, 

 an outwardly-oblique discal line of six elongate spots, the anterior 

 spot shifted inwards out of line, and a transverse line beyond 

 apex of cell, dark brown, each of these markings margined with 

 white ; on the terminal area there is an inner subterminal lunulated 

 dark line on the inner side of the series of black spots and an 

 anticiliary similar slender line. Cilia white, basal halves brown ; 

 on the fore wing interrupted also with brown at the apices of the 

 veins. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown ; shafts of 

 the antennae white-ringed, thorax with a little bluish pubescence ; 

 beneath : palpi, thorax and abdomen white. $ . Upperside : silky 

 brown, bluish at the base of the wings. Fore wing : a large dark 

 brown discocellular transverse spot and a small quadrate white 

 patch beyond. Hind wing : some two or three obscure dark sub- 

 terminal spots towards the tornus. In some specimens the series 

 complete from apex to tornus, more obscure anteriorly than poste- 

 riorly. Fore and hind wings : both with slender dark anticiliary 

 lines. Underside : ground-colour slightly paler, but the markings 

 very similar to those in the tf ; the transverse brown bars beyond 

 apex of cell on the fore wing longer, almost extended to the dorsal 

 margin. Cilia, antennae, thorax and abdomen much as in the c? . 



Exp. cj 5 24-26 mm. (Q-93-1'02"). 



Hub. Africa ; Arabia ; and within our limits : Baluchistan ; the 

 Punjab eastwards through Oudh to the Central Provinces ; 

 Central, Western and Southern India; Ceylon; Upper Burma: 

 Myingan ( Watson). 



Genus CHILADES. 



Chilades, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881. p. 76 ; de N. Butt. Ltd. iii, 

 1890, p. 88. 



Type, C. laius, Cramer, from Ceylon and India. 



Kanf/e. " South Africa, North and South Tropical Africa, extra- 

 tropical North Africa, South-east Europe, Asia Minor, Persia 

 and Aden, almost throughout India and Ceylon, but not in the Malay 

 Peninsula as far as is known, reappearing, however, in Java, Samba, 

 Sambawa and Australia" (de Nicevitte). Occurs also in China. 



