no LEPIBOrTERA INDICA. 



only found in low, hot valleys at 1000 to 3000 feet elevation, from May to November. 

 I took it near the Tista Bridge in August, and noticed that its flight and appearance 

 were similar to those of an Ypthima." 



Genus RAGADIA. 



Ragadia, Westwood, Genera of I). Lup. ii. p. 376 (1851). Butler, Catal. Satyr., B. M. p. 158 (1868), 

 Marshall and de Niccville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 234 (1883). Distant, Ehop. Malay, p. 420 

 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Foreiving subtriangular ; costa much arched, apex rounded, 

 exterior margin oblique ; costal vein much swollen at the base ; cell long, broad ; 

 first subcostal emitted before end of the cell ; discocellulars very concave ; upper 

 radial from slight angle close to subcostal, lower radial from above the middle of 

 discocellular ; median veinlets very wide apart. Eindwiiu/ rather short ; exterior 

 margin very convex and slightly uneven ; precostal very short ; costal vein much 

 curved at the base ; subcostal almost straight, its lower branch emitted at half 

 length of the wing ; cell extremely short and acute, the radial emitted from below 

 subcostal at about one-third between its base and its branch ; upper discocellular 

 short, emitted fi'om close to base of subcostal and extending sharply inward, the 

 lower discocellular being very acutely bent outward and joining the median vein 

 before the origin of its lower branch, the lower discocellular being developed along 

 the underside into a narrow elongated glandular pouch, and on the upperside is fur- 

 nished with a small tuft of fine long hairs which lie along it. Bodj/ slender; palpi 

 moderately long, clothed in front with rather short hairs, apex slender ; eyes nearly 

 naked ; antennge with a slender gradually formed club. 



TrPE. — R. Crisia. 



Habits. — Capt. Godfrey, who captured B. Crisia in the Malay Peninsula, de- 

 scribes it as being " found in low undergrowth in the forest, where, especially in the 

 early morning, it was several times met with. Its flight being weak and feeble, but 

 it cleverly eludes pursuit by threading its way through the tangled brushwood " 

 (Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 421). 



RAGADIA CEISILDA (Plate 120, figs. 1, la, b, cj ? ). 



Ragadia Crisilda, Ilewitson, Exotic, Butt. iii. Rag. pi. figs. 5, 6, ? (1862). Marshall and de K'ice- 

 ville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 235, pi. 15, fig. 36, ? (1883). 



Imago. — Male. — Upperside dull brownish-black ; cilia cinereous-brown. Fore- 

 wing crossed by an oblique discal white vein-intersected band, also by the two inner 

 and the submarginal band of the underside showing through by semi-transparency. 

 Eindiving crossed by an oblique discal and a curved submarginal white band, the 

 basal bands and the marginal of the underside also visible. Underside brownish- 



