10 ISMENE. 



outwardly oblique, concave ; radial from their middle ; two upper median 

 branches from end of the cell, lower from one-third before the end ; subme- 

 dian and internal slightly curved. Body very robust ; palpi thick, flat in 

 front, bristly at the side, third joint long, naked, cylindrical ; antennae 

 short, thick ; tip long and slender. Femora pilose beneath ; tibiae tufted ; 

 hind tibiae also incrassated. 



Type, /. adipodea." (Moore, I. c.) 



10. ISMENE CEDIPODEA, SWAINSON. 



Ismene cedipodea, Swainson, Zool. Illust,, vol. i, pi. 16 (1820-21). 



Ismenc cedipodea, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 158, pi. 64, figs. 2. a.b. (1881). 



" Male. Upperside ochreous olive brown ; forewing with an ochreous- 

 red costal band which also extends across base of the cell ; a large black 

 basal patch below the cell. Cilia of forewing pale brownish grey, of hind- 

 wing ochreous-red. Female differs above only in the absence of the basal 

 black patch, and beneath it in the less prominent white posterior marginal 

 band. Underside ochreous-brown : forewing with a paler ochreous sub- 

 apical and a marginal fascia, and a broad whitish posterior band : hindwing 

 with bright ochreous red longitudinal streak between the veins, broadest 

 between the median and submedian veins and abdominal margin ; a small 

 black spot at the base above the costal vein. Thorax in front, head, 

 palpi, body beneath, and legs ochreous-red ; terminal joint of palpi brown. 



Expanse, $ 2, $ 2j inches. 



Near Trincomallee ; Kandy ; Balangada [Ceylon] ." (Moore, I. c.) 



Also recorded from the N.-W. Himalayas (Moore), Cachar (Wood-Mason 

 and de Niceville), Sikkim (Ehves). 



Mr. Elwes notes that a male from Sikkim differs from two from Kangra 

 in having the costal margin of the hindwing above distinctly white. The 

 black velvety patch is very distinct, whereas it is very faint in /. jaina. 

 First described from Sumatra. 



The female also differs from that sex of I. jaina in possessing the red 

 costal streak of the male which is wanting in the female of the latter 

 species. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



11 ISMENE JAINA, MOORE. 



Ismene jaina, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 782. 



" Male and female dark vinaceous brown. 



Male. Upperside forewing with an orange red subcostal basal streak 

 and an indistinct blackish patch beneath the cell ; front of thorax, anal 

 tuft, and cilia of hindwing bright orange red ; thorax and base of abdomen 

 clothed with bluish grey hairs. Underside paler brown ; both wings with 

 a small black orange red bordered basal spot : forewing with a well denned 

 purplish white spot within the cell ; and a curved discal series of narrow 

 less defined spots ; posterior margin broadly yellow : hindwing with the 

 veins towards the abdominal margin and cilia orange red ; a curved 



