58 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Imago.— Male. Upperside bright orange-ochreous, markings Llack. Forewing 

 with a short inwardly oblique sub-basal band from the costa ; an ante-medial transverse 

 series of three large spots, the upper two from the costa divided by the sub-costal 

 vein, the third well separated, somewhat inwards, in the interno-median interspace, a 

 similar-sized round spot a little outwards, near the base of the first median inter- 

 space, a quadrate spot from the costa (a little inside the inner edge of the marginal 

 band), which is attached to a bar at the end of the cell ; the outer marginal band very 

 broad, its inner margin squarely excavated in its middle, then produced inwards below 

 vein 2 in the form of three closely-packed black streaks, the lowest one in two pieces ; 

 all the rest of the band with ochreous veins, each vein with a yellow streak 

 forming acute angular yellow marks. Hindiving with a basal spot, a sub-basal short 

 transverse bar, a spot at the end of the cell, another between it and the abdominal 

 margin ; a discal series of elongated spots, the upper ones with long angular outward 

 points ; a marginal series, the upper ones pointed, with thin ends running up between 

 the points of the discal series. Underside similar, Ijut all the spots are larger, 

 especially on the hindwing, the middle series more or less continuous from the cell 

 spot to the abdominal margin, the discal series without any points, these spots nearly 

 round. Cilia of forewing black, of hindwing orange-ochreous ; palpi, head, body above 

 and l)elow and the leijs concolorous with the wings : abdomen with sub-basal and 

 medial black bands. 



Female like the male above and beneath, but all the spots are smaller and 

 consequently more separated. 



Expanse of wings, $ % l-j-V inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Sylhet, Assam, Burma, Tonkin. 



Distribution. — The type is from Sylhet ; we have it from the Khasia Hills ; 

 Elwes records it from the Karen Hills, de Niceville from Tenasserim, Oberthiir from 

 Tonkin ; our description and figures are from a pair from Darjiling. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Odina cuneiformis, Plastingia cuneiforniis. Semper, Rhop. Philipp. p. 314, pi. 49, fig. 11, (^ (1892). 

 Habitat, Philippines. 



Genus TAPENA. 



Tapena, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 181 (1881). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 121 (1891) ; id, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 189.3, p. 60; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 421. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 146. 



Fori'iciihj, vein 12 ends on costa before the end of the cell; discocellulars sub- 

 erect, the lower the longer ; cell a little less than two-thirds the length of the costa ; 



