90 SATARUPA. 



Satavupa phisara, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B., vol. Iv, 

 pt. 2, 1886, p. 390, n. 240, pi. xvii, fig. 4, </. 



" Male. Upperside dark vinous-brown : forewing with two sometimes 

 three or four, minute semi-diaphanous yellowish-white subapical spots, a 

 small spot at lower erfd of the cell, a large quadrate spot below end of cell, 

 and a small spot also between the base of upper and middle medians : a very 

 indistinct greyish brown-speckled lunular fascia and a similar short fascia 

 below the quadrate discal spot ; hindwing with a transverse subbasal pale 

 yellowish band, and a curved submarginal indistinct greyish brown-speckled 

 lunular fascia, which gives the discal area a macular appearance. Female : 

 forewing marked as in male, the short fascia below the discal spot more 

 distinct : hindwing with the transverse band somewhat broader, the discal 

 area between it and the submarginal lunular fascia more distinctly macular, 

 being transversed by pale veins. Underside as above, the markings more 

 prominent. Abdomen with slender white narrow bands ; front of head and 

 base of palpi and pectus orange-yellow, tip of palpi black. 



Expanse : d" I T %, I T %- inches. 



Habitat : Khasia Hills. 



Allied to S. bhagava and 5. sambara." (Moove, L c.) 



Also recorded from Sikkim (de Niceville ; Elwes}, and Irangmara, 

 Cachar (Wood-Mason and de Niceville) ; occurs Yaw District, U. Burma. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



133. SATARUPA GOPALA, MOORE. 



Goniloba gopala, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C., i, p. 246. 

 Satavupa gopala, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 780, pi. xlii, fig. i. 

 " Male and female dark maroon-brown. Upperside, forewing with a 

 series of eight semi-transparent irregular-shaped whitish spots recurving 

 transversely from costal margin before the apex to near posterior margin, 

 being there joined by a white longitudinal streak ; a similar triangular 

 shaped spot within the discoidal cell : hindwing pure white with the base 

 and narrowly along anterior margin maroon-brown ; a double row of black 

 marginal spots, the interspace between the rows being suffused with bluish- 

 grey. Abdomen with broad white band ; tip brown. Cilia of hindwing 

 white. Underside as above but with base of hindwing greyish-white 

 and the double row of marginal spots more defined and blacker. Palpi, 

 above brown, beneath orange-yellow. Thorax and legs beneath dull white ; 

 legs in front black. 



Expanse : $ 2%, 9 3 inches. ^ 



Habitat: Darjeeling." (Moore, I. c.) r*T' 



Mr. de Niceville and Mr. Elwes also record this species from Sikkim. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville, 



