36 LEPIDOPTEIiA INBICA. 



wliiih is somewhat ainuous and longer than in the genus Dabn'io to which this gemis is 

 closely allied. Antennae with a slender club, its terminal point long and curved into a 

 liook ; palpi porrect, third joint short, bluntly conical ; hind tibise with two pairs of 

 spurs, fringed along its up^ser edge in the male, and the inner side is clothed with long, 

 coarse, recumbent hairs. 



Type, Satarupa gopala, Moore. 



SATARUPA GOPALA. 

 Plate 766, figs. 1, $ , la, 9 , lb, $ , \c, ? . 



Gnniloha gopala, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.U. i. p. 246 (1857). 



Satarupa gopala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 780, pi. 42, fig. 1. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 

 p. 456. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 90 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 46. de Niceville, 

 Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 176 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. 

 Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 132. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 67. 



Tagiadi's gopala, Butler, Ent. Mo. IMag. 1870, p. 96. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black, a triangular-shaped, semi-hyaline white spot 

 at the upper end of the cell, a discal series of ten semi-hyaline somewliat elongated 

 white .spots, the upper five sub-apical, in an outward curve, the sixth sub-c[uadrate 

 a little inwards, the seventh similar, larger, again a little inwards, the last three 

 in a row beneath it, the lowest linear, touching the hinder margin. Hindu- imj 

 with a very broad pure white band which narrows upwards towards the costa, 

 where it ends in a quadrate form, the base of the wing narrowly black, with an 

 irregular outer margin, the black colour continued narrowly along the costa and round 

 the apex where it broadens a little, the white band limited outwards by a row of large 

 black, oval spots, the two lowest in the interno-mediau interspace, a marginal row of 

 smaller black spots from the end of the apical band which become diffuse towards the 

 anal angle, the space between them and the discal series pale blackish. Cilia of fore- 

 wing and upper part of hindwing black, on the rest of the hindwiug checkered, black 

 and white, the lilack marginal spots running into the cilia. Underside. Foveiving like 

 the upperside, but there are two whitish spots outside the lower part of the discal 

 series, and the hinder margin is narrowly white. Hindwing entirely white, a short 

 narrow black band at the apex, the discal and marginal series of black spots as on the 

 upperside, but on a white ground, an extra black spot above the base of vein 7, the 

 outer row of black spots ending in a black patch at the anal angle ; palpi bright 

 <>range-ochreous, pectus with white hairs ; head and thorax above black, abdomen above 

 and below white, with a black basal patch above, thorax below white, legs white 

 beneath, black on their upper sides. 



Female similar to the male, the spots on the forewing somewhat larger. 

 . Expanse of wings, ^ 2y*o to 2^^, ? 2yV to 2^*0 inches. 



