174 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



wing, tips and hinder murginal space slightly paler than the rest of the wing. 

 Antennae black, underside greyish, or greyish-white ; palpi, head and body above and 

 below concolorous with the wings ; eyes Ijrown. 



Female. Upperside paler and browner than the male, indications of a dull, orange- 

 red sub-costal streak from the base to the middle, more apparent in some examples 

 than in others. Underside. Forewing with the orange-red sub-costal streak more 

 distinct, the apical space broadly suffused with pale rufous. Ilinchmng entirely 

 suffused with pale rufous, this colour on both wings having a tint of ochreous. 



Expanse of wings, J 2j\, ? 2-;^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Burma, Andamaus, Borneo. 



Distribution. — The type is marked Bengal ; we have both sexes in our collection 

 from Sikkim ; Elwes records it from the Karen Hills, Tavoy, and Kina Balu ; AVatsou 

 from the Chin Hills and Eangoon ; Moore from Tenasserim ; Wood-Mason and de 

 Niceville from the Andamans. 



MATAPA SASIVARNA. 

 Plate 798, figs. 1, ^ , In, ? , lb, ? . 



Isinene sasharna, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 186-5, p. 784. 



Matapa sanivarna, Moore, Jomn. Lian. Soc. Zool. Loud. 1886, p. -52. Elwes, Trans. Eat. Soc. 1888, 



p. 441. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 23 (1891) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. .5-5. Elwes, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 649. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 320. Watson, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1893, p. 8.5. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 181 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 210. 



Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Xorthunaberland, etc. 1908, p. 143. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, 



p. 100. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark chocolate-brown. Foreicing with an oblique, 



somewhat curved, grey glandular streak inwardly edged with dark brown. Cilia 



greyish-white, nearly pure white. Hindwing with the cilia from the anal angle for 



two-thirds of the margin orange, decreasing in length upwards, then brown to the 



apex. Underside similarly coloured. Forewing with the margins broadly paler. 



Hindwing uniformly coloured. Antennae black, eyes scarlet ; palpi, head and body 



above and below and the legs concolorous with the wings, tip of abdomen orange. 



Female paler than the male and duller in colour, otherwise identical, except that 

 the wings are somewhat longer, and of course there is no sex mark. 

 Expanse of wings, ^ 1^%, $ l-^^ to 2 inches. 

 Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Malay Archipelago. 



Distribution. — The types are marked Bengal ; we have it from Sikkim, and have 

 received a good many examples of both sexes from the Khasia Hills ; Elwes records it 

 also from the Karen Hills, E. Pegu, Tavoy, Perak and Pulo Laut ; Adamson from 

 Tenasserim and Bhamo ; Moore from Mergui ; Watson, from Tilin Yaw and the Chin 

 Hills. 



