120 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



\vhite, pectus and tliorax with some white hairs, al)domea beneath whitish, legs brown, 

 marked with whitish stripes. 



Female only differs from the male in having the spots a little larger. 



Expanse of wings, ^ 1, ? ly-Q inches. 



Habitat. — South India. 



Distribution. — There are two males in the B. 1\\. from the Anamally Hills, taken 

 by E. S. Roberts in May, 1893, and the type female from Trii-hinopoli, kindly lent to 

 us by M. Charles Obertliiir. Our description and figures are from one of the males 

 in the B. ]M. and from the type female. 



TARACTROCERA DANNA. 



Plate 785, figs. 1, (J , la, 9 , Ih. (^ . 



Pynjiis dnnna, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 249 (18.59). 



Pamphila danna, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 508, pi. 30, fig. 8. 



Taractrocera danna, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 63 (1891) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 94. de Niceville, 



Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 182 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429. 



Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 184. Hannyngton, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



XX. 1910, p. 371. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black, markings yellowish-white. Forewing with 

 the costal line finely white ; three indistinct streaks from the base, one on the hinder 

 margin, a short one al)ove the sub-median vein and a long one in the cell, above the 

 median vein, ending in a prominent small spot above the base of the first median 

 iiervule, another obliquely above it at the upper end of the cell ; three sub-apical spots, 

 divided bv the veins, in an inwardlv obli(|ue line, two outwardlv below them, some- 

 what near the outer margin, inwardly oblique in the f(^urth and fifth interspaces, the 

 upper one sometimes duplicated ; a discal inwardly oblique band, composed of two 

 lunular spots, in the second and third interspaces, and a narrow sinuous line, across 

 the first interspace. Ilindwing with a very indistinct spot at the upper end of the cell, 

 a spot before the middle of vein G, and a line of four spots across the wing in the 

 fifth and three lower interspaces. Cilia of both wings brownish-grey basally, white 

 outwardly. Underside paler than the upperside, all the spots prominent, a sub-costal 

 white streak on the forewing from the base to the end of the cell ; on the hindwing 

 the cell spot is very prominent ; the entire wing is covered with minute whitish scaling, 

 a white streak throughout the first interspace, and another, less distinct, along the 

 abdominal margin. Cilia of forewing white at the base, chocolate- grey outwardly; of 

 the hindwing white, with a chocolate-grey middle band. AntenmB black, strongly 

 ringed with white, the club smeared with white on the underside ; palpi, head and 



