170 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



near the base of the first median interspace, and a small spot in the middle of the 

 interuo-median interspace. Hindwing without markings. Cilia of both wings variegated, 

 brown and ochreous-grey. Underside with the basal third dark brownish-black with a 

 pinkish tint. Foreu-ing with the spots as above, the dark area extending a little 

 l)eyond the middle series,* the outer parts of the wing pale purplish-brown, the dark 

 colour running up the disc from the first median interspace in the form of a discal 

 shade, narrowing upwards to the costa, a large, more or less suffused white spot above 

 the middle of the hinder margin. Hindwing with the outer portion of the wing 

 coloured as in the forewing, the dark basal area limited by a thin sinuous white band 

 from near the costa beyond its middle to the sub-median vein before its middle ; a 

 short dark brown shaded l)and in the middle of the disc. Antennae black. Underside 

 of the club whitish, with brown dots on it ; palpi, head and body concolorous with the 

 wings, palpi below dark grey with whitish sides. 



Female like the male, but usually much larger ; all the spots very much larger. 



Expanse of wings, $ ly%, ? 2^ inches. 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Andamans, Ceylon, Siam, Malay Peninsula, and 

 Archipelago, 



Distribution. — In our collection from tSikkim, Chini, Amhurst, Bhamo, Ceylon, 

 Andamans, Hong-Kong ; recorded by Elwes also from the Karen Hills, E. Pegu, Java 

 and the Philippines ; by Drucefrom Siam ; by Hannyngton from Kumaon, by Watson 

 from Poungadaw, Burma ; by Moore from Mergui and Kangra ; by Adamson from Upper 

 Tenasserim ; by Davidson, Bell and Aitken from Karwar ; by Evans from the Palni 

 Hills ; by Fergusson from Travancore, and by de Ehe-Philipe from Masuri. Cramer's 

 type is said to have come from Surinam, but this is of course erroneous. 



Genus MATAPA. 



Matapa, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 163 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 377 (1885). AVatson, 

 Hesp. Ind. p. 21 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 85 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 

 1895, p. 427. Ehves and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 208. 



Forewing, vein 12 ends on costa opposite the end of the cell; cell less than 

 two-thirds the length of costa, discocellulars strongly inwardly oblique, the lower 

 slightly shorter than the middle, vein 5 arising from their junction ; vein 3 emitted 

 a little less than one-sixth before lower end of cell, 2 from a little before the middle, 

 lower margin of cell slightly angled at vein 3 ; costa slightly arched near base, then 

 nearly straight to apex which is somewhat produced and sub-acute, outer margin very 

 slightly convex, about equal in length with the hinder margin in the male, shorter 

 than the hinder margin in the female, the wing being comparatively longer. Hindwing, 

 vein 7 emitted more than one-fourth before upper end of cell, discocellulars faint, 

 vein 5 obsolete, 3 from very close to lower end of cell, almost touching it, 2 from about 



