1886.3 lepidoptera of mhow. 429 



63. Baspa melampus. 



Pap. melampus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 362. f. G, H (1782). 

 September to June. 



64. NiLASERA APELLA, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 4, S •) 



Allied to N. amantes, Hewitson, 



Upperside of a brighter and paler blue, but similar to A. amantes 

 in the deep costal band on the fore wings of the male, which is absent 

 in the female, and in the far deeper costal band of the hind wings 

 and marginal band of both wings. The underside is, however, quite 

 different, the ground-colour being of a uniform pale brownish grey 

 with an ochreous tinge, this tinge showing quite distinctly on the 

 brown portions of the fore wings, the costal portion and much of the 

 hind wing being silvery grey. Fore wings with one small spot in the 

 cell near the base, and a larger one also within the cell, a little 

 forward of its centre, the upper portions of both touching the sub- 

 costal vein ; another spot, square and larger at the end of the cell, 

 and a smaller one below this in the angle of the first median inter- 

 space, and below this is a spot elongated into a band running along 

 the interspace for more than half its length below the first median 

 branch, and half filling up that portion of the interno-median inter- 

 space ; there is also a discal row of six confluent spots from the 

 costa, commencing with a small one and getting gradually larger 

 and ending on the first median branch at the end of the band ; all 

 the spots brown, surrounded with yellowish white, the white borders 

 being clearest round the two spots in the cell and the two outside it. 

 Hind wing with four or five brown spots near the base, a central 

 whirl of spots of the same colour, disconnected, and irregular like a 

 zigzag band, a discal whorl of similar spots but paler, and the space 

 on each side filled in with other bands of spots so pale as to be only 

 here and there visible. Margins of both wings brown, diffused inwardly; 

 a black spot at the anal angle, and a white silvery streak on the 

 margin running from this spot to the first median branch, and 

 clouded with dark brown atoms. Tails black, tips white. 



Expanse of wings 2^^ inches. 



Mhow, March. 



65. Tajuria jehana. 



Tajuria jehana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 529, pi. 49. f. 7. 

 September. 



Papilionid^. 



PlERIN^. 



66. Terias uetx. 



Terias Iceta, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. i. p. 174 (1836). 

 September to July. The commonest Butterfly in Mhow. 



