116 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside olive-ln-own, with yellowish-white markings. Forew'mg 

 with a short streak on the median vein iu the middle of the cell, another above it at 

 the upper end, with two short small streaks between it and the costa, sometimes 

 connected together ; a series of spots in two parts across the disc, three conjoined from 

 the costa near the apex, and four commencing at the base of the second median inter- 

 space, divided from each other by the veins, all the spots somewhat quadrate and 

 excavated on their outward sides, two small quadrate spots nearer the margin in 

 the fifth and sixth interspaces. Hindwing with a series of small spots in almost a 

 straight line in the middle of the disc. Cilia of both wings grey with white tips. 

 Underside with the colour similar, almost as dark as on the upperside, markings 

 similar, but on the hindwing there is a bar across the end of the cell, and two small 

 sub-apical spots outside it. Antennse black with white bands, the club with a white 

 l)asal patch on the underside ; palpi above grey with some white hairs, pure white on 

 the underside; head and body concolorous with the wings, abdomen with white 

 segmental l)ands. 



Female. Upperside like the male, but somewhat paler, the spots larger and more 

 prominent. Underside with the markings as on the upperside. Foreicing with the 

 costal and apical portions whitish, the veins below the costa and at the apex white, a 

 narrow, white outer marginal band and a black marginal line. Hindwing entirely 

 suffused with white, all the veins pure white. 



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



Habitat. — India, Ceylon, Burma. 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — In our collection from Mhow, Poona, Eanikhet, Maymyo, Upper 

 Burma, and Trincomali in Ceylon ; recorded by Elwes from Sikkim, Calcutta and 

 Ganjam, by Hannyngton from Kumaon, by de Rhe-Philipe from Luckuow and Masuri, 

 by Aitken and Comber from the Konkan, by Fergusson from Travancore, by Moore 

 from Kangra, by Doherty from Kumaon, and by Adamson from Toungoo and Maulmein ; 

 it is widely spread all over India, Burma and Ceylon, but is very local. 



TARACTROCERA CERAMAS. 

 Plate 784, fis?. 2, $ , •2a, $ , 2b, ^. 



Cycloptdes ceravias, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 44 (1868). 



Taractrocera cerawas, Watson, Hesp. Intl. p. 63 (1881). Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, 

 p. 43. Hamp.son, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 366. Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 94 ; 

 id. .Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zuol. Soc. 1897, 

 p. 184, pi. 21, fig. 24, ^ . Evan.s, .Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 1910, p. 388. 



Imago. — ilale. Upperside rufous-brown, with small orange spots. Furewing 

 with eight spots, one in the cell, three conjoined from near the costa before the apex. 



