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MATAPA PURPURASCENS. 

 Plate 797, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, (J . 

 Matapa purpurnscens, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 209, pi. 20, fig. 1, (J , and 

 pi. 24, fig. 48 (genitalia). Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 100. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brown, with a purple .shade which is strongest on the 

 apical half of the fore wing ; sex mark blackish. Underside brown, fore wing with the 

 dorsum and apex suflusedly paler. Fringe of the forewing whitish-grey, of the 

 hindwing deep yellow from the tornus about as far as vein 6, thence to the apex 

 brown. Antennae brown, spotted with yellowish beneath, club yellowish on the 

 underside ; clothing of palpi, body and legs concolorous with the wings. 



Expanse, 40 mm. 



Habitat. — Kha.sia (Hamilton), E. Pegu (Doherty). 



Described from two males in coll. Elwes, where, however, there is no female which 

 can be certainly identified as the female of this species, although there are two 

 purpurescent females, one from Sikkim with the underside entirely pale grey-brown, 

 and the other from Tavoy with the underside as in M. druna ; both these females 

 have the clothing of the apex of the abdomen yellow. 



This species is nearest to M. druna, Moore, from which it differs in having a purple 

 shade on the forewing above, and also in the clasp form of the male. (Elwes and 

 Edwards. ) 



We have three males of this species from the Khasia Hills, but have not been 

 able to procure a female ; it is undoubtedly distinct from all the other Indian species ; 

 on one of our .specimens is the following note by Watson : — " Matdpa, not sliahjrama, 

 it is what usuallv stands as druna, but is quite distinct." 



MATAPA DRUNA. 

 Plate 797, figs. 3, <J , 3a, ? , 3b, ? . 



Hesperia druna, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 2.54. 



Ismene druna, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 784; id. idem, 1878, p. 842. Wood-Mason and 

 de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 255, ? . 



Matapa druna, Elwes and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 439. Ehves, Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. 1888, p. 441. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 23 (1891); id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, 

 p. 55. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 649. AVatson, id. 1893, p. 85. de Niceville, Gazetteer 

 of Sikkira, Butt. p. 181 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429; id. idem, 

 X. 1896, p. 680. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 210, pi. 24, fig. 49 (genitalia). 

 Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 100. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olive-brown. Forewing with the tips somewhat 

 paler, the glandular streak somewhat curved, rather thickly grey, edged inwardly with 

 dark brown. Cilia greyish-wliite. Underside with a somewhat purplish tint, an 

 indistinct, dull orange-red sub-costal streak from the base to near the end of the 



