166 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



PUDICITIA PHOLUS. 



Plate 796, ligs. 1, (5 , la, 9 , lb, ? . 



Parnara pholiis, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 18cS9, p. 172, pi. B, fig. 3, $. Watson, 

 Hesp. Ind. p. 47 (1891). de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 181 (1894). 



Pndicitla pholus, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 381. Watson, id. p. 429. 

 Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 216. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings rich brown with a shining vinous tinge, 

 the spots translucent rich ochreous. Forewing with three conjugated sub-apical spots, 

 the first a mere dot, the next twice as large, the lowest four times as large as the 

 middle spot ; two well separated spots towards the end of the cell placed inwardly 

 obliquely ; a spot about twice the size of these in the middle of the second median 

 interspace, another much larger one completely filling the first median interspace below 

 the innermost spot in the cell, another spot below this at about the middle of the 

 sub-median interspace and touching that nervure. Cilia concolorous with the wing. 

 Hindwing with a small round spot near the end of the cell, three equal-sized sp^ts in a 

 sti'aight line on the disc separated by the second and tliird median nervules ; the base 

 of the wing and the abdominal margin clothed with large yellowish-brown setis. Cilia 

 pale yellow. Underside, both wings as above, but the coloration duller. Forewing 

 with the spot in the sub-median interspace much larger, its edges diff"used pale yellow. 

 Ilindicing as on the upperside. Antennae and legs black throughout ; top of head, 

 thorax, and top of abdomen decreasingly clothed with long iridescent l^ronze- green 

 hairs, thorax below duller. 



Female larger than the male. Forewing with the lowest sub-apical sj^ot larger 

 than in the male, the two spots in the cell conjoined ; otherwise as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ 2-y*o, ? 2^^ inches. 



Described from a male obtained by Mr. Wylly, and a female by the native 

 .collectors of Mr. Otto Moller near Buxar Bhutan. I know of no near ally to this fine 

 species, the largest in the genus hitherto described, (de Niceville.) 



Habitat.^ — Bhutan, Sikkim, Assam. 



Distribution. — Eecorded by de Niceville also from Sikkim and from the Khasia 

 Hills, it must be a very rare species ; there is a male from Darjiling in the B. M. de 

 Niceville's description of this species is so clear, we give it in extenso ; our figures of 

 the male are from the .specimen in the B. M. ; we have not been able to prijcure a 

 female, we therefore give copies of de Niceville's figure. 



