1872.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 557 



outer small black lunule ; interspaces of subbasal streaks and inner 

 discal rows of spots pale bluish green. 



Female with markings as in male, but blacker and more promi- 

 nent, the hind wing on the upperside having the black borders 

 broader, the discal series of black oval spots larger and partly con- 

 fluent with the inner series, the outer black lunules being bordered 

 with a mixed white and fulvous lunule ; head and thorax fulvous 

 brown ; abdomen fulvous. 



Expanse, <$ 2|, § ?>\ inches. 



Hab. Malabar, S. India. In Coll. F. Moore. 



Nearest allied to C. nietneri, Felder, Voy. Novara, pi. 48. f. 5, 6. 



Genus Cirrochroa, Doubleday. 



ClRROCHROA THAIS. 



Papilio thais, Fabr. Mant. Ins. p. 64 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. p. 149. 



Cirrochroa thais, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 116 

 (1869). 



Male and female. Upperside pale ferruginous, glossed with green 

 at the base : fore wing with a prominent medial transverse black 

 line, which is oblique and zigzag in front of the cell and lunular 

 hindward ; exterior margin broadly dusky black and traversed by 

 a double row of ferruginous lunules, the marginal row obsolete at 

 the apex ; a dusky streak lining the discocellular vein : hind wing with 

 a large round white spot on anterior margin, from which proceeds 

 the medial transverse black lunular line, between which and the 

 exterior margin is a parallel row of six small black spots, two dusky 

 lunular lines and a third outer line. Underside pale ferruginous 

 brown in male, brown in female, with a transverse medial irre- 

 gularly dentated purple-white glossy band on both wings, the outer 

 margin of the band being straight, and the dentations disappearing 

 towards anal angle of hind wing ; transverse row of black spots 

 on hind wing smaller than on upperside, marginal dusky lunules 

 hardly visible. 



Expanse 2\ inches. 



Hab. Ceylon ; S. India. In Coll. British Museum and F. Moore. 



Note. — The above is the description of the insect which, according 

 to Mr. Butler's determination, is the C. thais of Fabricius. 



Cirrochroa lanka. 



Male. Upperside bright ferruginous : fore wing with medial 

 transverse black line, which is oblique in front of the cell, nearly 

 obsolete hindward ; marginal band black, traversed by an inner row 

 of ferruginous lunules, the outer series being more or less obso- 

 lete : hind wing with the white spot on the anterior margin large, 

 the median transverse line from it faintly defined ; the parallel row of 

 black spots, outer aud second marginal lines prominent. Under- 

 side dusky ferruginous, somewhat fulvous at the base, glossed with 

 purple-grey ; a broad transverse medial prominent purple-white 



