76 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Distribution. — The type came from Ceylon ; we have both sexes from Kandy 

 aud Trincomali, which we describe and figure ; we have it also from Ootacamund, 

 Kolar and Konoor ; Fergusson records it fmm Travancore, Davidson, Bell and Aitken 

 from Karwar, where they bred it, Evans from the Palni Hills, Aitken from Egutpura, 

 de Rhe-Philipe from Masuri, Hannyngton from Kumaon, and we have received it from 

 the Khasia Hills. 



ABARATHA ALIDA. 

 Plate 776, figs. 1, <J , la, 9, lb, ^, Ic, ?. 



Abaratha alida, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 394, pi. G, fig. 40, (J. Friihstorfer, 

 Iris, 1910, p. 89. 



Caprona alida, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. i.x. 1895, p. 422 ; id. idem, x. 1896, p. 674. 

 Elwes aud Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 1.51. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumber- 

 land, etc. 1908, p. 140. 



Imago. — Male. Upper.side ochreous-brown. Forewing with five sub-apical white 

 spots, the three from near the costa in an outwardly oblique straight line, the two 

 lower ones minute, sometimes absent ; a small round dot within the cell before its 

 middle, a spot within the outer end, highly excavated on its outer side, its upper half 

 merely a short curved streak, a round spot in the middle of the first median interspace, 

 a round dot outside towards the base of the second median interspace, a minute dot 

 immediately below the lower spot and a small round spot inwardly below it, both in 

 the interno-median interspace, a very minute dot close to the costa at its middle, all 

 the spots and dots white and semi-hyaline ; an indistinct l)rown narrow bar before the 

 middle across the interno-median interspace ; and an indistinct, irregular, recurved 

 brown lunular discal line. Hindwing with indistinct, lunular, brown, discal and 

 sub-marginal lines ; both wings with brown outer marginal line and white cilia, with 

 small brown patches at the vein ends. Underside pale brown, spots and markings as 

 above, both wings covered and smeared with white scaling, the outer marginal line 

 brown, with a little brown suS'usiou on its inner side. Antennae with the underside 

 of the upper half of the club ochreous, a white streak on tl>e lower half, the shaft with 

 white dots. Palpi, body beneath and the legs white ; head and body above con- 

 colorous with the wings, a white spot on each side of the head. 



Female similar to the male, duller in colour above and not nearly so white 

 beneath, and across the disc of the forewing beneath there is a rather broad, indistinct 

 brownish fa.scia. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1 f-g- to l^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — The type came from Tilin Yaw. Watson records it from the 

 Chin Hills. There are two females in the Hancock Museum, 'Newcastle, taken by 

 Adamson at Kathapa and Sagaing in the Chindwin Valley in February, 1894. 



