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Female. Upperside dark chocolate brown without the impressed 

 streak ; cilia of hindwing pale orange yellow. Underside bright ferrugi- 

 nous brown. 



Expanse, *o i, 9 2 s inches. 



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



Also recorded from Ceylon (Hutchison, Wade, Mackwood) ; Andamans 

 ( Wood- Mason and de Niceville) ; Calcutta (de Niceville)', Cachar (Wood-Mason 

 and de Niceville) ; Orissa (Taylor) ; Nilgiris (Hampson) ; Sikkim (Elwes). 



I obtained this species commonly at Rangoon. The eyes are bright red. 



Mr. Elwes states that this species is a much smaller insect than 

 M. shalgmma. 



It is usually common wherever it occurs. In collections Indian 

 Museum and de Niceville. 



24. MATAPA DRUNA, MOORE. 



Ismene druna, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, P- 7^4, 9 



Ismene druna, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B., 1881, p. 255 \>. 



" Male. Upperside dark olive brown ; forewing with a well defined 

 obliquely curved discal impressed grey streak. Cilia of forewing greyish 

 white, of hindwing orange-yellow. Head palpi and legs beneath ferrugi- 

 nous brown. Underside dark purplish brown." 



Expanse, i inch. 



Hab. Bengal." (Moore, I. c.) 



Also recorded from the Andamans (Wood-Mason and de Niceville); Sikkim 

 (de Niceville ; Elwes) ; Taoo, 3,000 to 3,500 feet, U. Tenasserim (Limborg). 



" 9 . Differs from the male only in the absence of the sexual streak in 

 the anterior wings. In both sexes of this species the anterior wings are 

 tipped with paler on both sides." (Wood-Mason and de Niceville, I. c.) 



I have several specimens from Rangoon. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



25. MATAPA 8ASIVARNA, MOORE. 



Ismene sasivarna, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, P- 7^4- 



" Male and female. Upperside dark vinaceous brown. 



Male. Forewing with a short impressed comma-like greyish white 

 streak obliquely beneath the cell. Cilia of forewing greyish white, of 

 hindwing broadly, from anal angle to two- thirds of the margin, orange- 

 yellow, thence to the angle brown. Underside dark fuliginous brown ; 

 cilia as above. Palpi and body blackish brown ; abdomen with slight 

 orange-yellow tuft. 



Female as in male but without greyish white streak. 



Expanse "b if , 9 2 inches. 



Hab. Bengal." (Moore, /. c.) 



Also recorded from Sikkim (Elwes and de Niceville). 



