CHOASPES. 



5. CHOASPES ANADI, DE NICEVILLE. 



Choaspes anadi, de Niceville, J. A. S. B., vol. Hi, pt. 2, 1883, p. 83, 

 pi. 10, fig. 6 $. 



11 Male. Upperside dark vinaceous brown distinctly glossed with 

 purple, slightly paler in the middle of the disc. Forewing with a costal 

 streak from the base to beyond the middle of the wing rich orange ; 

 cilia cinereous. Hindwing with the costa broadly pale ochreous ; the 

 cilia rich orange. Base of both wings and thorax clothed with long 

 pale green iridescent hairs. Underside paler brown washed with 

 ochreous, which colour assumes indistinct streaks between the veins 

 on the hindwing. Forewing with the outer margin broadly washed 

 with deep purple, the inner margin broadly pale ochreous ; some pale 

 streaks between the veins beyond the end of the cell ; a round black 

 spot at the extreme base of the wing with a spot of bright orange 

 above it ; hindwing with a similar but larger black spot. Antennae 

 dark brown above, ochreous below ; palpi with the third joint dark 

 brown, the second and first with the outer edge brown, the rest orange, 

 which is the colour of the legs, the underside of the body and the anal tuft. 



The female differs from the male only in being larger and darker, 

 the upperside of the hindwing concolorous with the rest of the wing, 

 not broadly pale ochreous as in the male. 



The male of this species closely resembles that sex of C. harisa, 

 Moore, but differs in the forewing being much narrower, and on the 

 hindwing in having the costal pale patch more restricted; on the 

 underside the markings are less prominent. 



There is a male of C. anadi from Masuri, taken at 7,000 feet 

 elevation on 271*1 May, 1868, in Colonel Lang's collection. Expanse : o" i'9 

 to 2 f i ; 9 2-45 inches. 



Habitat, Sikkim ; Masuri." (de Niceville, I. c.) 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



6. CHOASPES GOMATA, MOORE. 



Ismene gomata, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 783, $. 



Choaspes gomata, de Niceville, J. A. S. B., vol. Hi, pt. 2, 1883, p. 83, $, 

 pi. 10, fig. 7. 



" Male. Upperside pale vinaceous brown ; both wings with pale 

 brownish yellow streaks longitudinally between the veins. Abdomen 

 blackish brown with yellowish bands. Cilia yellowish. Underside dark 

 brown, with the veins and longitudinal streaks between them greyish 

 green, the brown showing only along each side t>f the veins; posterior 

 margin of forewing broadly pale vinaceous; exterior margin of both 

 wings defined by a brown line. Third joint of palpi and edge of sides 

 brown, the rest yellow. Thorax, legs and abdomen beneath orange yellow. 



Expanse, 2j inches. 



Habitat, N. E. Bengal." (Moore, I. c.) 



