62 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



COLADENIA TISSA. 

 Plate 772, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, ? . 



Cvladenia tissa, Miiore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 180, pi. 67, fig. 6 (1881). Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1893, p. 49; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. 



Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 126. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 66. 

 Culadenia tissa, Watson (part), Hesp. Ind. p. 118 (1891). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brown. Forewing sparsely covered with oclireous 

 setPD, and with three sub-apical dots in an oljlique curve, and sometimes with two very 

 minute dots a little outwards, one above the other, a discal series of four spots, a large 

 one at the end of the cell, another outwardly below it in the first median interspace, a 

 small spot near the base of the second median interspace, and a small spot between 

 the upper spot and the costal margin, all whitish, semihyaline and surrounded with 

 blackish ; a blackish discal band which bends outwards at its upper part and includes 

 the sub-apical dots, has a black spot at its lower end in the interno-median interspace 

 with an orange-red centre and a similar spot in the same interspace towards the base ; 

 a row of ob.scure orange-red spots outside the discal band. Ilindwing covered with 

 ochreous hairs and variegated with obscure orange-ochreous patches or large spots ; a 

 small black sub-costal spot one-third from the base, a large black spot at the end of the 

 cell, with a sub-costal similar spot above it and another inwardly below it, a discal 

 black Viand with a series of orange-ochreous spots outside it ; marginal line of both 

 wings thickly black ; all the orange-ochreous spots in some examples very obscure. 

 Cilia of both wings l)rown, with a short white space on the forewing above the hinder 

 angle. Underside paler, markings as above, but all the orange markings darker and 

 more prominent. 



Female darker than the male and browner in colour, the orange-ochreous marks 

 obsolete except those outside the discal band ; in the forewing there are always five 

 sub-apical dots, all larger than in the male, the spots of the discal series are also larger, 

 and there are two extra conjoined spots tinted with orange in the interno-median 

 interspace ; on the under.side all the markings are usually very prominent. Antennae 

 with the upper half of the club and the underside of shaft whitish ; palpi and pectus 

 ochreous ; head, body above and below and the legs concolorous with the wings, tarsi 

 oehreous-grey. 



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



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Dlstributiox. — The types came from Kandy ; described and figured by us from 

 a pair from Trincomali ; appears to be confined to the island ; has been recorded from 

 many parts of India in error ; the wet-season brood of C. indrani very closely resembles 

 this species, but can at once be distinguished from tism by the checkered cilia of the 



