ELIGMA. 331 



nervure near extremity of cell, angled inwards in submedian fold 

 and incurved below vein 1 ; beyond the cell the white fascia is 

 produced to slight streaks on the veins with reticulate white marks 

 beyond it before and beyond an. oblique white line from vein 6 to 

 submedian fold ; a curved subterminal series of black points and 

 striae from below apex to vein 1. Hind wing yellow ; a black 

 terminal band suffused with metallic blue and with white streaks 

 on the veins, broad towards costa on which it extends to near base 

 and narroAving to a point at submedian fold, its inner edge incurved 

 at vein 2 ; the cilia brown at base and white at tips from apex to 

 submedian fold. Underside of fore wing black suffused with blue, 

 the veins and costa streaked with white, a white discoidal spot, a 

 yellow patch at base with irregular outer edge ; hind wing with the 

 veins on the dark costal and terminal areas prominently streaked 

 with white. 



Ab. 1. indica. Fore wing with the blue gloss and white streaks 

 on underside slight or almost absent. — Peniusular India, 



Ab. 2. javanka. Hind wing with the terminal band broader, its 

 inner edge evenly curved ; abdomen with the dorsal spots very 

 small.— -Java. 



Ab. 3. iihilippinensis. Similar ; fore wing with the portion of the 

 medial line in cell reduced to a point, the subterminal spots larger ; 

 hind tibiae without black spot. — PhilijDpines. 



Hah. Cenxe. China, Wei-hai-wei {T.B. Fletcher), 1 c? , Foo-chow 

 {de la 2'ouche), 1 (5 , Ichang (Mrs Pratt), 1 c? ; W. China, Chang- 

 yang, 1 § , Omei-shan, 1 J , 1 $ , Washan (Pratt), 1 cJ , Chia-kou-ho 

 {Pratt), 1 cJ , Moupin (Kricheldorf), 2 2 ; Gan jam ; Bombay, 

 liatnagiri (Jayalcer), 1 cJ ; Madkas, 1 c? , 3 § , Calicut (Felloius- 

 Wilson), 1 J , jNilgiris (Hamj:ison), 1 J , 1 $ ; TKAVANCOKE,Trivandrum 

 (Ferc^usson). 1 J ; Penakg, 1 § ; rHiurpiNEs, Mindoro ; Java. Ea.'p. 

 62 -S4 millim. 



*6636. Eligma orthoxantha. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 26.) 



Eligma orthoxantha, Lower, Tr. E. See. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 27 (1903). 



§ . Head and thorax drab ; palpi with the 2nd joint yellow with 

 black point at extremity, the 3rd joint white with black point at 

 base and band near extremity ; vertex of head, tegulae on inner and 

 outer sides, patagia and meso- and metathorax with paired black 

 ])oints ; pectus and legs orange, the tibiae with black points ; ab- 

 domen orange with dorsal and lateral series of small black spots. 

 Pore wing drab with five small black spots in a semicircle at base ; 

 antemedial small black spots on costa, below cell and above inner 

 margin and Avith black spots beyond them in and below cell, 

 followed by a white band with dentate outer edge from costa to 

 mediau nervure with a dentate line from it to vein 1 ; a series of 

 small black spots from middle of costa, almost parallel to costa to 

 well beyond middle on vein 7, oblique to vein 4, then bent inwards 

 to near origin of vein 2, then as an interrupted line angled outwards 



