ASTICTOPTERUS. H7 



Expanse : i T 6 y- inches. 



Habitat : Salween, Moulmein ; Darjeeling." (Moore, I c.) 



Recorded from Calcutta (de Niceville} ; Cachar (Wood-Mason and 

 de Niceville} ; Tavoy (Elwes and de Niceville). 



I have two specimens of this from Beeling, Upper Tenasserim. The 

 shape of the wings is very similar to Baracus. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



208.-ASTICTOPTERUS SALSALA, MOORE. 



Nisionides salsala, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 786. 



Astictopterus salsala, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 401, pi. xxxiv, fig. 21 

 (1886). 



Astictopterus stellifev, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second 

 series, vol. i, p. 455 (187679). 



Astictopterus stellifev, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 163 (1881). 



" Male and female dark brown with olive-brown gloss. Male ; upper- 

 side, forewing Avith two or three ill-defined yellowish spots ascending 

 obliquely from beyond middle of posterior margin. Female ; forewing with 

 an oblique series of small semi-transparent white spots curving across the 

 disc (more or less distinct), and terminated below by an ill-defined 

 yellowish spot. Underside chestnut-brown suffused with black on the 

 disc ; forewing with minute white spots, one at extremity of the cell, and 

 two or three obliquely beyond ; hindwing with a series of three spots 

 disposed in a curve across disc ; cilia greyish-brown. Palpi, body, and 

 legs yellowish beneath. 



Expanse : i-J- inches. 



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



Also recorded from Cachar (Wood-Mason and de Niceville) ; Tavoy 

 (Elwes and de Niceville) ; Calcutta (de Niceville} ; Orissa (Taylor) ; Sikkim 

 (de Niceville ; Elwes). 



Recorded as A. stellifev from Ceylon (Hutchison, Wade, Mackwood); 

 Poona, Bombay (Swinhoe) ; and the Nilgiris (Hampsori). 



Mr. de Niceville states that he considers A. salsala to be identical 

 VitihA.steltifer, though Mr. Moore informs him that the 'female of A. salsala 

 has a curved discal row of seven white spots and two lower ochraceous 

 discal spots, and is a larger species than A. stellifer, Butler.' According to 

 Mr. Elwes the two species are identical, Sikkim specimens varying 

 considerably in the spots of the forewing above, which are sometimes white, 

 sometimes rufous and sometimes absent as in stellifer. 



I have numerous specimens of this species from Rangoon, Beeling, 

 Upper Tenasserim, Madras, Kadur District, and Mysore ; they vary con- 

 siderably in the distinctness of the spots both on upperside and underside, 

 but I can find no sure characteristic by which to separate them into two 

 species. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. - 



