BIBASIS. 15 



9 . Upperside, both wings darker and more richly coloured than in 

 the male, being very conspicuously glossed with purple beyond the lighter 

 basal portions. Forewing with three golden-yellow semi-transparent 

 lustrous spots, two discal, situated and shaped much as in Parata chromus, 

 Cramer, and one minute and subapical one at the junction of the first 

 and second thirds of the length of the last subcostal cell, sometimes with 

 two spots one above the other, the upper the smaller, and placed in the 

 interspace next above. Underside, forewing marked as above, with the 

 inner margin ashy-white, and with a patch of ashy scales in the interno- 

 median area at the level of the discal spots. Hindwing with the band 

 broader than in the male and extending to the costal margin. In one 

 of the specimens of this sex the upperside has a mottled appearance 

 owing to the purple gloss being imperfectly developed, as in so many 

 Eiiplceas. Head and thorax covered with iridescent olive-green pubescence 

 nearly concolorous with that of the wings ; abdominal segments of the 

 body above and below edged posteriorly with yellowish inclining to orange 

 above ; eyes encircled with whitey-brown scales ; palpi clothed with mixed 

 brown and yellowish scales. 



Expanse, 2*1 inches. 



Four males and two females Silcuri [Cachar] and neighbouring 

 forests, June ist to July 25th." 



(Wood-Mason and de Niceville, I. c.) 



In collection Indian Museum. 



GENUS VI. BIBASIS. 



Bibasis, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 160 (1881). 



" Intermediate between Parata and Hasora. Forewing comparatively 

 longer than in either of those genera ; apex more pointed, exterior 

 margin more oblique and posterior margin shorter than in P. chromus; 

 first subcostal emitted at nearly one-half before end of the cell, second 

 at one-fourth before the end ; middle median at one-fourth before end of 

 the cell. No glandular streak in male ; hindwing more oval, less convex 

 externally, and broader posteriorly. Type B. sena." (Moore, I. c.) 



17. BIBASIS SENA, MOORE. 



Goniloba sena, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 778. 



Bibasis sena, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 160, pi. 65, figs. 3. 3 a. 

 (1881). 



" Male. Upperside dark chocolate brown. Cilia of hindwing car- 

 mine-red. Underside maroon brown ; forewing with a large buff- white 

 patch from the middle of posterior margin, bordered above with purple ; 

 hindwing with a broad transverse purple white band terminating before 

 the anal angle, the inner border of which is sharply defined, the outer 

 suffusing itself on the disk. Cilia carmine-red. Palpi and thorax in 

 front, beneath and anal tuft dull yellow. Thorax beneath greyish brown. 



Expanse, 2 inches. 



Habitat, Bengal." (Moore, I. c. in P.Z.S.) 



