108 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



SECTION II. 

 With a tuft of hairs on the underside of the forewing, in the male. 



CARCHARODUS DRAVIRA. 



Plate 783, figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, (J. 



Pyryus dravira, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. .576, pi. 67, fig. .5, ^ . de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. 



Bengal, 188.3, p. 88, pi. 10, fig. 5, ? . 

 Erynnis dravira, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 188.5, p. 346. 

 JSesperia dravira, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 153 (1891). 

 Carcharodus dravira, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 67 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189-5, 



p. 422. 

 Carcharodus alcese, Ehves and Edwards (part), Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 152. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside with the ground colour grey, tinged with olive-green, 

 spots white, bands dark brown. Forewing with a basal band, divided by the median 

 vein and not reaching the costa, a broad middle band from the middle of the cell to 

 the hinder margin divided by the veins, and outwardly angled in its middle, a similar 

 discal band from the costa to the hinder margin divided by all the veins, and a similar 

 marginal band ; all these bands formed of more or less wedge-shaped marks in the 

 interspaces, with their margins somewhat diffuse, giving the wing a variegated appear- 

 ance ; a white thin bar in the cell outwardly limiting the upper part of the middle baud, 

 a thin obscure white line closing the cell, three sub-apical spots in a curve from close to 

 the costa, a lunular spot towards the base of the second median interspace and another 

 inwards below, before the middle of the first median interspace, all these five spots 

 within the discal band. Hindrving with grey hairs on the abdominal portion, a 

 sub-basal spot in the cell, with a brown patch inside it and another between it and the 

 w'hite spot at the end of the cell, which has a white spot above it and two (sometimes 

 three) white spots below it forming a white, macular middle band, this being 

 immediately followed by a brown, macular dLscal band, outwardly edged by a whitish 

 obscure series of lunular marks, and a marginal, brown, macular band, making the 

 wing as variegated as the forewing. Cilia of both wings checkered brown and white. 

 Underside with the ground colour gi'ey. Forewing with a large basal blackish patch 

 of hairs covering most of its basal half, all the markings as above, but very obscure, 

 with an additional series of obscure sub-marginal dots. Jlindwing paler, the markings 

 as on the upperside. Antennaj black, white beneath, the upper half of the club 

 entirely black ; palpi and body beneath and the legs white, the palpi, head and body 

 brown above, with grey hairs, abdomen with brown segmental bands and a grey tip. 



