28 LEPIDOPTERA IKDICA. 



CHARMION FICULNEA. 

 Plate 7G4, figs. 1, <J , la, ?, lb, <J . 



Hcgperia fiadnca, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 37 (1868). 



ficuhiea, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 113. 



CItnrmion ficulnea, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1894, p. 49. Watson, Jouni. Bo. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. ix. 189.5, p. 422. do Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 529. Ehves 

 and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 111. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 

 1908, p. 137. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 60. 



Pledoneura signata, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 360, pi. 33, fig. 8. 



Notocrypta nignatn, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1889, p. 191 ; id. idem, 1891, p. 380. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside jjurple-black. Foreioing with a short, broad, pure 

 \vliite, outwardly oblique, discal band, commencing narrowly in a short inwardly oblique 

 form from the sub-costal vein a little beyond its middle, then rapidly expanding, 

 outwardly oblique, to vein 2 where it is cut short, its margins are even, the inner one 

 nearly straight, the outer outwardly curved. Ilindwiny without markings. Cilia of 

 both wings black. Underside like the upperside, without the purple tint, but quite as 

 black. Antennae with the upper half of the clul) dull ochreous ; palpi dark grey, dark 

 ochreous at the sides ; head, body al)ove and below and the legs concolorous with the 

 wings. 



Female similar, the discal white band of the forewing somewhat broader. 



Expanse of wings, J ? ly% to 1^-^ inches. 



Habitat. — Borneo, Perak, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Siam, Burma. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Druce from Borneo ; we have several examples from 

 Brunei, North Borneo ; recorded l)y de Niceville from Lower Tenasserim, Siam, the 

 Malay Peninsula and Sumatra ; it is in tlie Hancock Museum, Newcastle, from Toungyan 

 in Tenasserim, taken by Adamson. 



INDO-MALATAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Charmion tola, Plesioneura tola, Hewitson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 340. Synonyms, 



Plesioneura zawi, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit. xxix. p. 225 (1885) (unpublished plate No. 1345). 



Plastingia (?) plesioneuree, Staudinger, ex. Schmett. p. 299, pi. C, 9 (1888). Habitat, Celebes, 



Tondano. 

 CItnrmion queda, Plesioneura queda, Pliitz, I.e. (unpublished plate No. 1344). Notocrypta queda, 



de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. iv. 1889, p. 192. Charmion queda, Swinhoe, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 9, pi. i. fig. 8. (Plate numbered III. by mistake.) Habitat, Malacca. 

 Charmion nihana, Charmion ficulnea nibana, Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 61. Habitat, W. Sumatra. 



