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30. PITHAURIA MURDAVA, MOORE. 



Ismene murdava, Moore, P.Z. S., 1865, p. 784. 



Pithauria murdava, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 378, pi. xxxv, fig. 9, *b 

 (1886). 



" Upperside olive brown : fore wing with the base grey, with six small 

 yellow spots, two within the extremity of the cell, two near the costa, one- 

 third from the apex, and two midway beneath ; hind wing grey to beyond 

 the middle. Underside pale yellowish-brown ; disk of forewing blackish, 

 spots as above : hindwing with indistinct submarginal and discal pale 

 yellowish spots. Abdomen above with greyish brown segmental bands. 

 Palpi, abdomen, and legs beneath dull yellow. 



Expanse, 2 inches. 



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



Also recorded from Sikkim by Messrs, de Niceville and Elwes. 



I have obtained this species at Heeling, U. Tenasserim. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



31. PITHAURIA STRAMINEIPENNIS, WOOD-MASON and DE NICEVILLE. 



Pithauria stramineipennis , Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B., 

 1886, p. 388, pi. xv, fig. 5 b. 



Pithauria murdava, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 371, $ only (1886). 



"\>. Upperside, both wings marked precisely as in P. murdava, Moore, 

 but all the setae on the base of the wings clear whitey-brown with a touch of 

 yellow on all those in front of the submedian nervure of the forewing, those 

 on the interno-median area of this wing being concolorous with the whitey- 

 brown down of the hindwing, the costal area of which is above more or less 

 extensively pale brown. In P. murdava, the setae in the hindwing are 

 yellowish-olivaceous, all those of the forewing distinctly yellower ; and the 

 costal area of the hindwing is dark. All the spots and streaks of both sides 

 are no less variable in P. stramineipennis than they are in P. murdava, so we 

 have not attempted to describe them. 



9 . Differs from male in being larger, in the wings being paler, with 

 the scanty setulose clothing at their bases greyish-fuscous paler than the 

 ground in the hindwing, and in the spots of the forewing being larger, paler, 

 and more angular ; agrees therewith in the costal area of the hindwing being 

 pale brown above. 



Expanse, ^ i'8 to 2-0; 92-1 inches. 



Habitat: *b. Sikkim, Bhutan, Upper Assam, Cachar ; 9 Sikkim.'' 

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



In describing this species as above Messrs. Wood- Mason and de 

 Niceville append the following remarks : " In our figure the downy clothing of 

 the upperside of the wings at the base is not represented of a sufficiently 

 light and bright shade ; it is in reality of a clear bright whitey-brown or 

 straw-colour, which, being conspicuously contrasted with the dark margins, 



