1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 397 



Underside as in C. usela, but paler ; coloration duller and less 

 reddish, and without the small brown patch at tlie hinder angle. 



Female. Dark greenish grey, outer border dark chocolate-grey : 

 fore wings with the cell-markings as in C. erota female ; a central 

 brown line followed by a broad white band divided by the veins, and 

 which is narrowest on the hinder margin, where the outer half of 

 the band is greenish, and it expands upwards to the costa to witliin 

 half an inch of the apex, a suffused black spot on the lower radial 

 interspace, a dentated black line running through the band near its 

 outer margin ; a white subapical spot, and two very slight, sinuous, 

 black, submarginal lines, very nearly straight and not together as is 

 usual in C. erota and C. asela. 



Hind wing witli a central faint brown line in continuation of the 

 one on the fore wing, followed by a broad band, also in continuation 

 of the band on the fore wing ; but this band, instead of being white, 

 is greenish grey, only sliglitly paler than the coloration ot the basal 

 half, and is quite as opaque as the rest of the wing, instead of being 

 semihyaline as is the case in the alUed species ; there are also the 

 two usual discal ocelli and two submarginal black lines. 



Underside as in C. erota female, but the band on the hind wing 

 instead of being white is greyish ochreous, and very slightly paler 

 than the coloration of the outer border. 



Expanse of wings, c? 3y^^, $ A^-^ inches. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills, two pairs, received from Mr. Hampson ; North 

 Kanara, two pairs, received from Mr. Wise ; also recorded from 

 Wynaad and Travancore in Marshall and de Niceville's ' Butterflies 

 of India,' vol. ii. p, 43. 



LyC^N I D jE. 



Chrysophanus susanus, n. sp. 



Allied to C. pho-nicurus, Lederer. 



Above smoky brown, with the copper colour showing through : 

 fore wings paler than the hind wings, and of a more copper hue, 

 both wings darker towards the base ; the few markings in the wings 

 above caused by the markings below showing through the wing; 

 fore wings with three spots in the cell in a line, one being at each 

 end and one in the middle ; costal margin and hinder margin deeper 

 brown, and a band of the same colour on the outer margin. 



Hind wing with a faint submarginal band of reddish, clearer 

 towards the anal angle ; tail as in C. phlceas, but long and produced 

 like a hair streak. 



Head white, with a brown centre ; collar white ; eyes and body 

 brown ; antennae brown, with white bands. 



Underside coloured and marked somewhat as in C, pavana, all 

 the spots and lines black surrounded with whitish : fore wing pale 

 copper-yellow, fading to whitish at the base, three spots in a line in 

 the cell, one in the interspace below, just underneath the centre cell- 

 spot ; marginal line black, a submarginal macular baud with a 

 thinner macular line between, but not reaching the hinder margin, 



