138 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



convex, apex pointed, exterior margin oblique and almost even, posterior angle 

 pointed ; with a large oval inwardly-oblique medial glossy-black patch, clotlied with 

 glossy-black modified scales, which are either moderately short or rather long and 

 have acute tridentate tips, some few however having a four-pointed tip ; nv 

 audroconia ; cell very broad ; first and second subcostal branches emitted before end 

 of the cell; discocellulars deeply concave in the middle, the lower long; upper radial 

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

 middle and lower median veinlets very wide apart, the lower terminating at the 

 posterior angle ; submedian very short, recurved, and terminating on the middle of 

 the posterior margin. Eindwing short and broad, the apex obtusely pointed, 

 exterior margin sinuous and produced into an obtuse short caudate angle at end of 

 upper median veinlet ; costal vein terminating on the middle of the costa; first 

 subcostal branch ending on the costa at some distance before the apex, the second 

 branch ending at the apex ; cell broad across the middle ; discocellular very oblique, 

 radial from near upper end ; middle median emitted before end of the cell. Bodi/ 

 short, somewhat woolly ; palpi obliquely porrect, compressed, clothed to tip with 

 fine short hairy-scales, apex pointed ; antennte slender, rather short ; eyes 

 naked. 



Type. — C. Suradeva. 



CYLLOGENES SUilADEVA (Plate 132, figs. 1, la, h, (J ? ), 



Melanitis Suradeva, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy. i. p. 225 (1857). Staudinger, Exot. 



Schmett. p. 223, pi. 79, S (1887). 

 Cyllogenes Suradeva, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 6 (1868). Marshall and de Niccville, Butt. 



of India, etc. i. p. 260, pi. xiii. fig. 30, ^ ? (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purplish-brown, dai'kest at the apex ; cilia brown 

 edged with cinereous. Forewing with a prominent narrow excurved subapical pale 

 ochreous streak, below which is a large medial obliquely -oval glossy-black patch, 

 clothed with glossy-black modified scales, which are either moderately short or 

 rather long, and have acute tridentate-tip, some few however having a four-pointed 

 tip ; no audroconia. Hindwivg without markings. Underside dull ochreous, 

 numerously covered with short, narrow, undulating strigte ; both wings with a 

 transverse darker brown ill-defined discal fascia, which is formed by confluent 

 strigEe, the fascia outwardly bordered by a few pinkish-white striga? ; a subraargiual 

 series of normally-disposed ill-defined small lilacine white-centred longitudinally 

 black-speckled bordered spots. 



Female. Upperside with a bluish-purple tint. Forewing with a broader and 

 darker ochreous excurved subapical streak. Underside as in the male, except that 



