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cell and into the upper portion of the second median interspace ; 

 the anal lobe and short tail beyond it deep ferruginous ; the long 

 tail becoming white towards its termination, pure wliite at its tip ; 

 an obscure round blaclc spot between the bases of the two tails. Un- 

 derside : both vnngs umber-brown. Fore wing with a darker brown 

 pair of lines across the middle of the discoidal cell, another pair 

 enclosing the discocellular nervules, a discal irregular fascia from 

 the costa to the first median nervule, very broad and dark posteriorly, 

 a submarginal series of dark dots between the veins, the inner margin 

 very broadly pale fuscous without markings. Hind wing more or 

 less covered with fnscous, dark brown, and umber fasciae and spots, 

 the most conspicuous of wliich are two black spots in the subcostal 

 interspace, a ring-spot at the middle, and an oblong one at the end 

 of the cell, a very dark oblique band from the middle of the aI)do- 

 minal margin to the middle of the ^ing, a discal irregular fascia 

 recurved upwards to the abdominal margin, and a marginal dark 

 fasfia more or less sprinkled with whitish scales towards the anal 

 angle. — Female. Upperside : fore wing with the purple area in 

 the male replaced by a smaller pale blue patch, leaving the apical 

 half of the wing and the outer margin at the anal angle black, a dif- 

 fused white spot at the end of the cell and another beyond it divided 

 by the second median nervule into two portions. Hind wing also 

 pale blue, all except the costa widely and the outer margin decreas- 

 ingly, which are black. Underside : both wings paler than in the 

 male, but similarly marked. Cilia pale ferruginous throughout. 



There are single males of this very beautiful species in tlie collec- 

 tions of Major Marshall and Messrs. Otto Moller and A. V. Kay vett, 

 and a single female in that of Mr. Moller, all of them taken in 

 Sikkim, Mr. Moller's specimens in June. It is quite unlike any 

 species known to me. 



Ticherra, nov. gen. 



Closely allied to Cheritra, Moore, but differs in the male in the 

 absence of the secondary sexual characteis on the costal margin of 

 the hind wing on the upperside ; the fourth subcostal nervule of the 

 fore wing springing froin the third much nearer its apex, conse- 

 quently being shorter ; the cell of the hind wing longer, the disco- 

 cellular nervules being much more awkwardly oblique. 



Type Ticherra acte, Moore. 



Ticherra acte. (Plate XL. fig. ^,6 •) 



Myrina acte, Moore, Horsfield & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. 

 vol. i. p. 47. n. 77, female (1857) ; id. Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep., 

 LyccenidcB, p. 30. n. 10, pi. xii. figs. 8, 9, male, wet-season form 

 (1863). 



Dry-season form. 



Male and Female. Underside : both wings differ from the 

 typical rainy-season form of the species in the ground-colour being 

 cinnamon-brown instead of rich ochreous-orange ; the markings in 



