122 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



witli purplisli-grey scales. Hindvjing also with a broad piirpurescent-white trans- 

 verse band occupying the interspace between the discal and submarginal brown 

 band ; apex diffusedly speckled with purpurescent-grey scales. Underside some- 

 what brighter tinted than in the male ; basal black-lined marks prominent ; discal 

 sinuous and submarginal macular band distinctly defined ; outer borders washed 

 with purpurescent-grey. Foretuing with the discal white macular band and subapical 

 spots as above. Hindtving with the discal white intervening band tinged with pale 

 olivescent. 



Expanse, c? 2^o, ? 3 to 3j^o inches. 



Habitat. — South Andamans. 



This is a very rare species ; one male and two females are in the Hewitsonian 

 Collection, taken by the late Mr. Eoepstorff, the male being placed as an example 

 of E. Qaruda. Other males and females are in the collections of Mr. "Walter 

 Rothschild and Mr. Grose-Smith. 



EUTHALIA JAMA (Plate 237, figs. 1, la, b, c, d, e, (J ? ). 



Jdolias JoTWrt, Felder, Eeise Nov. Lep. iii. p. 431 (1866). Butler, Pioc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 604; 



id. Trans. Linn. Soo. Zool. i. p. 539 (1877). 

 Euthalia Jama, de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 219 (1886) ; id. J. A. Soc. Bengal, 1887, p. 361, 



pi. 16, fig. 3, 4, 6 ?. 



Imago. Male. Upperside dark purpurescent umber-brown ; cilia black ; basal 

 marks black-lined. Foreioing with an inwardly-oblique transverse rather broad 

 black inner-discal and a submarginal diffused fascia ; an obscurely-defined upper 

 discal series of very slender longitudinal white streaks decreasing from the costa 

 (where the upper portions are broken and show their ends only) to the middle 

 median, and there ending in two very small obliquely-opposed spots. Eindwing 

 with a transverse rather broad black discal fascia and a narrow submarginal sinuous 

 fascia. Underside pale brown, varying from paler umber to ochreous-brown ; basal 

 black-lined marks prominent. Forewing with a narrower and less-defined blackish 

 submarginal fascia, and more prominently-defined upper discal white streaks than 

 on the upperside ; the inner fascia obsolescent. Eindwing with narrower and much 

 less obscurely-defined discal blackish fascia and submarginal dentate fascia. Bodij 

 and palpi above dark brown ; palpi and legs beneath pale brownish- white ; antennae 

 black, tipt with red. 



Female. Upperside paler ; of an olivescent fuliginous-brown. Both wings with 

 black-lined basal marks, and obscurely-defined dusky-brown fasciae as in the male. 

 Forewing with upper discal longitudinal whitish streaks more prominent, each 

 portion being broader and thicker, and sometimes the posterior portions are also 



