196 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dull purpli.gh-black ; without any markings. Cilia 

 cinereous. Underside similar, the outer margins slightly paler. Foreunng with a 

 complete discal series of violet-white spots from near the costa to near the hinder 

 marg;in, the series outwardly angled opposite the cell, also a sub-marginal somewhat 

 suffused series of lunular similarly coloured spots. Hindwing with a discal and sub- 

 marginal series of larger, similarly coloured spots. Antennae black, the club whitish 

 beneath ; palpi with grey hairs ; head and body above and l^elow and the legs con- 

 colorous with the wings. 



Female like the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? l^V inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Burma. 



Distribution. — The type male is from Sikkim and is in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta ; Elwes records it- from the Naga Hills and Bernardmyo ; we have it from 

 Rangoon. 



MACHACHUS INDISTINCTA. 



Plate 802, figs. 5, $ , .5a, ? , .5b, ^ . 



Tlianaos indistincta, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 694 ; id. .Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, 



p. 53. Watson, .Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 27. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 



1888, p. 366. 

 JEromachus indistincta, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 216. Watson, Hasp. Ind. 



p. 66 (1891) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 80 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429. 



de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 536. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. 



Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 191, pi. 19, fig. 11, $, and pi. 23, fig. 39 (genitalia). Davidson, Bell and 



Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1897, p. 55 (larva and pupa). Adamson, Trans. N. H. 



Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 143. 

 Tlianaos ohsoleta, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 694. 

 ^romaclms ohsoleta, de Nice\-ille, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 217. Watson, Hasp. Ind. 



p. 67 (1891) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189.5, p. 429. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside uniform olive-brown, without any markings ; in some 

 examples there are very faint indications of some discal and sub-marginal marks. Cilia 

 concolorous with the wings, .slightly paler at the tips. Underside paler ; a small 

 whitish spot at the end of the cell, sometimes absent, an indistinct whitish and out- 

 wardly curved discal, thin baud from near the costa halfway down the wing, the upper 

 and outer portions of the wing sparsely covered with minute white scales. Hindwing 

 entirely covered with minute white scales, traces of a whitish outwardly curved 

 discal band and a very indistinct series of sub-marginal sjjots a little darker than the 

 ground colour. Antennge black, ringed with white, club whitish on the underside, all 

 except its tip ; palpi, head and body above concolorous with the wings, whitish on the 

 underside. 



