190 LEPWOPTERA IXDICA. 



Distribution and Habits. — " In Sikkim, Mr. L. de Niceville took it at low 

 elevations, where he found the males commonly sucking up moisture from damp 

 spots, with their wings folded ; when disturbed they fly oS" into the jungle. The 

 rich indigo-blue of the upperside of the male, when fresh, makes it a very handsome 

 insect on the wing. In Sikkira it is not uncommon. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 has specimens from Sibsagar, Upper Assam" (Butt. Ind. i. 295, 6). According to 

 Mr, Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 331), it is " not rare in the lower valleys of Sikkim 

 up to about 2000 feet, from March to November." Col. C. Swinhoe has received 

 numei'ous specimens taken in the Khasia Hills by Mr. Hamilton's native collectors. 

 Major C. H. E. Adamson obtained it at Bhamo in Upper Burma, where the males 

 were very common on moist places on roads throughout the rainy season ; the 

 females never leave the thick undergrowth of the adjoining forest, where, however, 

 they cau easily be found " (List, p. 11). Mr. Ossian Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 827) 

 obtained it at the " Houngduran Source, in Upper Tenasserim." Capt. C. T. 

 Bingham "took it at Houndran in Upper Tenasserim" (Butt. Ind. i. 295). 

 Specimens from the Karen Hills are in Mr. P. Crowley's collection. Dr. J. 

 Anderson (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 33) took it on Elphinstone Island, Mergui 

 Archipelago, in February and March." The late Mr. F. de Koepstorff obtained speci- 

 mens at Port Blair, South Andamans, the males having the ochreous spots on the 

 forewing all small, inconspicuous, and narrow, the submarginal row being indicated 

 by slender longitudinal pale points — as in some Sikkim specimens ; the female 

 having the ochreous band on the forewing, as described by Mr. de Niceville, 

 including the upper submarginal lunate patch, the dark dividing line between them 

 being obsolete. In specimens from the Malay Peninsula the male has the ochreous 

 spots on the forewing conspicuous, and in the female the ochreous band is broader, 

 including within it the entire submarginal patches. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 150, fig. 1, la, b represents the 

 male and female, and fig. Ic the larva and pupa, reproduced from Horsfield's 

 figures of the Javanese D. Celinde. 



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DISCOPHORA LEPIDA (Plate 151, figs. 1, la, b, c,cj §). 



Enisjifi Jepi'!a, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Company, i. p. 213, ? (1857). 



JDiscophora lepida, Jloore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 36, pi. 18, ligs. 1, la, b, ^J ?(1SS0), Marshall and 

 de ^'iceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 297 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purplish-brown, the discal area darkest. Fore' 

 wing crossed by an oblique subapical series of three decreasing bluish-white spots, a 

 fourth lower smaller spot also sometimes being present, followed by a submarginal 

 series of small bluish dots. Ilindioing with a distinct discal hlach glandular patch of 

 raised scales. Underside dark brownish-ochreous, darkest externally; with numerous 



