346 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



Description : Male. TJpperside, both wings bronzy sTiining hair- 

 brown. Forewing paler on the disc ; with, the usual costal vermilion 

 streak, commencing at the base and reaching to about the middle of 

 the wing. (This streak is composed of highly deciduous scales, and 

 in many specimens otherwise perfect it is more or less abraded and 

 wanting.) The usual ^' male-mark " placed before the middle of the 

 first median interspace^ and composed of a more ordess rounded clump 

 of deep black scales. Cilia cinereous-. Hindwing has the base and 

 abdominal margin clothed with long iridescent greenish hairs. Cilia 

 vermilion, narrow at the apex of the wing, gradually widening to 

 the anal angle where it is widest, extending narrowly a short distance 

 up the abdominal margin. Underside, both wings paler than above. 

 Foreiving with the inner margin broadly pale ochreous ; some very 

 obscure pale ochreous streaks between the veins beyond the end of 

 the discoidal cell ; the extreme base of the wing vermilion, bearing 

 the usual round black spot. Ilindwing with the usual round black 

 spot at the costal base of the wing, the veins and narrow streaks 

 between the veins on the disc vermilion, the abdominal margin widely 

 streaked with vermilion. Cilia of both wings as on the upperside. 

 Antennce black, the club beneath ochreous. Paljii with the third 

 joint black, the second and first ochreous, vermilion at the sides. 

 Thorax above concolorous with the wings, but clothed with long 

 iridescent greenish hairs, beneath vermilion. Abdomen above hair- 

 brown, beneath and anal tuft vermilion. Legs vermilion. Female, 

 differs only from the male in the absence of the '^ male-mark, " and 

 in the vermilion cilia being paler^ more ochreous. 



Nearest to I.jaina, Moore, from Sikkim, Bhutan, the Khasi 

 Hills, Cachar, the Shan States, and Borneo (Druce), with which it 

 agrees on the upperside, but differs beneath in the forewing in the 

 absence of the " well-defined purplish- white spot within the cell, 

 and a curved discal series of narrow less-defined spots," the inner 

 margin also is pale ochreous, not " yellow." The '' Ismene " 

 excellens, Hopffer, from Celebes,* which I have not seen, is also 

 apparently a closely allied species. It is also near to Ismene etelka, 

 Hewitson {itelka on plate) f from Sarawak, Borneo, but appears to 



* Stet. Ent. Zeit., vol. xxxv, p. 39, n. 119 (1874). 



t Ismene eieZSo,, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. iv, Ismene, pi. ii, figs. 14,15, /emaZe (1867). 



