88 SATARUPA. 



29. 8ATARUPA BHAGAVA, MOORE. 



Satanipa bhagava, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, P- 7& 1 - 



" Upperside dark olive-brown : forewing with a triangular series of 

 three discal semi-transparent white spots, the first being large and within 

 the extremity of the cell, the second quadrate and beneath the first, the 

 third exterior to their juncture ; beneath these are small black spots 

 bordering a brownish white streak from middle of posterior margin, a 

 recurved series of small similar white spots before the apex ; hindwing with 

 a broad brownish white subbasal transverse band, bordered by a semi- 

 circular series of black spots, those exteriorly assuming the form of streaks 

 between the veins. Abdomen with a white band. Underside as above. 

 Palpi and thorax in front beneath orange-yellow. Cilia brown. 



Expanse: if inches. 



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



Also recorded from Orissa (Taylor) ; Sikkim (dc Niceville ; Elwes.) ; 

 Margherita, Assam (Doherty). I - 3<?zrr 



Mr. Elwes only doubtfully records this species, as he considers that 

 the names bkagava, phisara, and narada really include only two species, one 

 with narrower yellowish band on hindwing which he considers to be 

 phisara, and one with pure white and broader bands which he considers to 

 be narada. 



I have obtained this species at Rangoon and at Poungadaw, U. Burmah. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



The following local form has been described from the Andamans. 



Tagiades bhagava, var. andamanica, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. 

 S. B., 1881, p. 256, pi. iv, fig. 5, <?. 



" Male. With the cream-coloured subbasal band of the posterior wings 

 in one specimen narrower and not continued on to the anterior wings, in 

 another as broad as in an Upper Tenasserim example and continued 

 faintly on to the anterior wings : with the spot at the end of the cell larger 

 than in the female and not isolated from the fuscous outer margin : and 

 with the transverse abdominal band concolorous with the subbasal. 



Female. Wings above paler with the spots of the anterior wings 

 whiter and larger and the band of the posterior ones pure white, much 

 broader and extending on to the anterior ones broadly up to the submedian 

 vein and thence narrowly up to the first median veinlet between the two 

 pairs of black spots. 



Posterior wings with a black speck at the end of the cell on a white 

 ground on both sides and the two anterior of the semi-circular series of 

 black spots on the upperside nearly but on the underside wholly placed on 

 the white subbasal band. 



A specimen from the Sikkim hills 3,000 feet, differs in having the 

 band broader both on the posterior wings and between the two rows of 

 spots in the anterior ones. 



