46 LEPIDOPTEEA IXDICA. 



Hesp. iDd. p. 94 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soe. 1893, p. 54; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 

 1895, p. 422. Elwes and Edwards (part). Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 140. 



Imago. — Male. Uppei-side dark blackish-})rown. Forewing darker thau the 

 hiudwing, nearly ]»lack ; three sub-apical dots in an outwardly oblique curve from near 

 the costa, sometimes there are four, sometimes an extra dot outside, nearer the apex, 

 in one example there are five dots in the right wing and only three in the left ; some 

 obscure darker patches on the wing, forming a discal band which forks upwards, and a 

 patch on the inner part of the wing, all very obscure. Hindwing with the anal space 

 whitish, tinted inwardly with blue ; a discal series of black spots, somewhat obscure. 

 Cilia of forewing black, of hindwing brown on the upper half, white on the lower. 

 Underside. Forewing much paler and more brown-coloured, the hinder marginal space 

 narrowly pale, the sub-apical spots as above. Hindwing with the costa narrowly, the 

 apex broadly, sufiused with brown, the rest of the wnng whitish, suffused with bluish- 

 grey, the suffusion dark on the outer parts and bluer at the base ; a black spot at the 

 end of the cell, and a discal series of black spots which does not extend below the 

 median interspaces ; a marginal row of similar spots, prominent near the anal angle, 

 becoming small and obsolete upwards. Cilia as on the upperside ; palpi whitish, brown 

 at the sides ; thorax and alidomen below and the legs whitish, the latter with brown 

 stripes ; head and body above concolorous with the wiugs. 



Female. Upperside much paler than the male, brown in colour, the sub-apical 

 dots and markings similar, the paleness of the ground colour making the discal band of 

 the forewing more prominent ; on the hindwing the discal series of .spots is obscure, the 

 whitish anal area is much reduced and is duller in colour, not nearly so white as in the 

 male. Underside. Fvreiring still paler brown, the discal band of the upperside faintly 

 reproduced. Hindwing with the costal brown suffusion more extensive, the rest of the 

 wing whiter thau in the male, markings similar. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 2 to 2-^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Andaman Islands. 



Distribution. — We have both sexes from Port Blair and from Aberdeen, the type 

 came from the Andamans ; in so far as we have been able to ascertain, the species is 

 confined to these islands. Elwes and de Niceville record it from Tavoy in Burma, but 

 we are of opinion that this must be a mistake. 



TAGIADES GANA. 



Plate 769, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, <J . 



Pterygospidea gana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 180. 



Tagiades gana, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 96. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 458. Watson, 

 Hesp. Ind. p. 96 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S93, p. 51. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim 



