146 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Compy. i. p. 237 (1857). Eutler, Catal. Fabrician Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 38 (1869); Pr^r-. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 520. Marshall aud de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. I p. 266, pi. xvii. fig. 

 59, S ? (1883). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 237, pi. 86, c? ? • 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Foreiving dark, velvety ; purpurescent blackisli- 

 brown, in fresh specimens somewhat tinged with blue, and the edge of the outer 

 margin with purple ; in older specimens the ground-colour is generally more or less 

 dark chestnut-brown ; some blue irrorated-strigaB along the costal margin, and an 

 excurved subapical series of small violet-blue irrorated spots disposed between the 

 veinlets, the spots elongated near the apex, those below rounded ; between the basal 

 intei'space of the median and submedian vein is an inconspicuous rounded impressed 

 Mack glandular jMtch, which is clothed with shoft broad many-pointed tipt black 

 scales, and with some longer narrower tridentate-tipt scales. Eindwing somewhat 

 paler, purpurescent blackish-brown, or chestnut-brown, the outer border being broadly 

 suffused chestnut-red, fading to dull dark ferruginous, which is sometimes traversed 

 by a submarginal series of very small more-or-less pale red or white spots ; the veins 

 across the red band also sometimes being black Hned ; within the upper base of 

 the cell is an elongated glandular jMtch, which is clothed with very densely-packed 

 laxly-raised scales, which are of equal width throughout and have obtuse rounded 

 tip and base, and with numerous short fusiform slender blackish scales (androconia) 

 with an acute point at each end, the patch being also overlapped from its 

 posterior edge by a tuft of long hlachish hairs. Cilia alternately edged with white. 

 Underside deep chestnut-red, with numerous wavy transverse lilacine-cinereous 

 strigaB of raore-or-less intensity, these strigJB being sparsely-disposed on the basal 

 two-thirds, and are generally densely-packed and confluent on the outer border, 

 where their density forms a more-or-less defined paler nebulous border, the division 

 generally being indicated by the angulated curved edge of the dark basal area. On 

 the forewing is a prominent triangular costal patch before the apex, which is 

 densely covered with lilacine cinereous strigas, and on the middle of the discocellular 

 veinlet is a minute whitish speckled-spot ; on the hindwlng, also, there is a more or 

 less prominent subcostal white spot above end of the cell, and occasionally a sub- 

 marginal series of white points are more or less apparent. Body beneath, legs, and 

 palpi paler brown ; legs beneath cinereous-brown ; antennsB brown with a pale tip. 



Female. Upperside coloured and marked somewhat after the style of Salatura 

 Genutia. Forewing with the costal border from the base, the outer half, and below 

 the submedian vein blackish-brown, the medial area from the lower base of the cell 

 beiuf ochreous ; along the base of the costa are some violescent-white strigte, and 

 before the apex a broad violescent-white subapical band intersected by the dark 

 veins, below which are three submarginal decreasing white rounded spots. Ilind- 

 ivi)ig with the costal border and outer margin broadly dark brown, the latter 



