78 LEPIDOPTEHA indica. 



long, alternately black and whitish. Ilindwing rusty-ochreous, with a marginal dark 

 line, and a discal, a cellular and a sub-marginal row of dusky spots, but no translucent 

 ones. Below paler ochreous, without any rufous tinge, the translucent spots set in 

 small blackish patches, a sub -marginal line of joined dusky spots, and a dark streak near 

 the base from the sub-median to the median veins. Hindwing with a black transverse 

 streak at the end of the cell, a fainter one nearer the base of the cell, and a circle of 

 large and conspicuous black spots, nine in all, round the disc, whereof two are between 

 the costal and the sub-costal, and two between the median and the sub-median veins ; 

 whitish hairs at the extreme base. Bodv dull ferruginous above, whitish below." 



Expanse of wings, $ ? l-i% to lyo inches. 



Habitat. — India. 



Distribution^. — The type came from Bagheswar on the Sorju in Kumaon. 

 Doherty described it as a male, but undoubtedly in error. We have a female in good 

 condition from Kuddapah in South India, which corresponds in every respect with 

 Doherty 's description. We have not been able to ascertain where his types now are ; 

 probably in some private collection in the United States. We have a male from 

 ]\Iadras, and there are some males in the B. M. from Kootur Chittapahar. Hannyngton 

 also records it from Kumaon. It appears to be a very widely spread and very scarce 

 species. 



ABARATHA SYRICHTHUS. 



Plate 776, figs. 3, (J , 3a, 5 , 3b, $ (Diy-season Brood), 3c, $ , 3d, ? , 3e, 9 (Wet-season Brood), 



3f, larva and pupa. 



Pterygospidea syrichthus, Felder, Eeise, Nov. Lep. iii. p. 530, pi. 72, figs. 22, 23 (1867). Elwes, Trans. 



Ent. See. 1888, p. 458. 

 Pyrgus syriclithis, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 94. 

 AbarntJia syriclithiis, "Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 100 (1891) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 58, 



Ehves, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 656, pi. 43, fig. 2, ^ , var. Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. vii. 1893, p. 428. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 88. 

 Ca^jrona syriclitlius, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 62. de NiceWlle, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. 



p. 179 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hi.st. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422 ; id. idem, x. 1896, p. 674. 



Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 151. de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. xi. 1898, p. 598. de Niceville, id. xii. 1899, p. 336. Evans, id. xx. 1910, p. 388. 



Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 140. 

 Pyrgiis agama, Moore, MS. Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 249, pi. 7, figs. 1, la (larva and pupa) (1857). 

 Aharatha agama, Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 539. 

 Coprona clicesi, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. x. 1896, p. 674. 

 Abaraiha syriclitlius elwesi, Fruhstorfer, I.e. 



Dry-season Brood — elwesi (Figs. 3, 1, 3a, $, 3b, $). 

 Imago.— Male. Upperside dark blackish-grey covered with white spots. Foreiviiuj 



