88 LEPinOPTERA INDICA. 



the upperside. Antennae black above, white beneath, club with a dull reddish tip ; 

 pal[ii, head and body above black ; abdomen with ochreous-white tip, on the 

 underside the palpi white, body and legs grey, tarsi whitish. 



Female similar to the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ 1 j, $ l-j% inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam. 



Distribution. — The type is marked N.E. Bengal, it is recorded by Elwes from 

 Sikkim. by de Rhe-Philipe from Masuri, we have received three examples from the 

 Khasia Hills, it is in the B. M. from Darjiling ; our description and figures are from a 

 male from the Khasia Hills and a female from Darjiling. 



Genus SARAMGESA. 



Saraiiijcsa, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 17C (1881). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. .^3 (1891) ; kl. Pioc. Zool. 



Soc. 1893, p. 48 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 420. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. 



Zool. Soc. 1897, p. lL'3. 

 Eydn, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6), ix. p. clxxxiii. (1889). 

 Sape, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. Ixvii. 



Forcwlii'j, vein 12 ends on the costa a little before the end of the cell, discocellulars 

 sub-erect, the lower the longer, vein 3 from close before lower end of cell, 2 from about 

 one-third from the base, the median vein slightly curved upwards between the bases of 

 veins 2 and 3. The cell less than two-thirds the length of the costa. Costa gently 

 arched, outer margin convex, shorter than the hinder margin, which is straight. 

 Ulndn-bi'], discocellulars very ftiint, apparently in one straight line and of about equal 

 length, 3 from very close to the lower end of the cell, 2 from a little beyond the 

 middle, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, outer margin somewhat sinuous, wing 

 about as broad as long. Antennse very slender, about two-thirds the length of the 

 costa of forewing, club moderate, slightly recurved ; palpi porrect, third joint short, 

 l)luntly conical ; hind tibias with two pairs of spurs, with a tuft of hairs attached 

 to the proximal end. 



Type, Pijnjas purcndra, Moore. 



SARAN6ESA PURENDRA. 

 Plate 778, figs. 3, (J , 3a, 9 > 3b, 9 i 3c, larva .and pupa. 



Pijr(ius purcndra, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 250 (1857). 



Sar<injesa purcndra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 262. Swinhoe, id. 1884, p. 512, and 1885, 

 p. 146. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 137. Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1887, p. 43. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 54 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 48. Betham, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. 1893, p. 427 ; id. idem, vni. 1S94, p. 423. Watson, id. ix. 1895, 



