•212 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



srey, abdomen oclireous with thin black segmental bands, legs black above, ochreous 

 beneath. 



Female like the male, the forewing has a spot attached above the large discal spot, 

 and the spot below the subcostal streak is much larger than it is in the male, and on 

 the underside the ground colour of the wings is ochreous-grey. 



Expanse of wings, ^ Ifo, ? H inches. 



Habitat. — Mergui, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Distribution. — A single specimen taken by Dr. Anderson in Sullivan Island, now 

 in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, is the only record within our limits ; the type came 

 from Singapore ; Elwes records it from Pulo Laut, E. Java, and Sumatra ; we have a 

 male from Borneo ; it is abundantly distinct from P. callineura, Felder, the type of 

 which is now before us. 



PLASTINGIA MARGHERITA. 



Plate 806, figs. 2, $ , 2a, <J . 



Plastlngia margherita, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 1-31, pi. 10, fig. 5, (J . Watson, 

 Hesp. Ind. p. 115 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 6.57. Watson, id. 1893, p. 118; 

 id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 4.35. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, 

 p. 227, pi. 24, fig. 54, 54a (genitalia). 



Imago. — Male. Above black, with light golden-ochreous tran.slucent markings, 

 and rich orange-ochreous opaque ones. Of the former there are on the forewing two 

 unusually large, elongate-quadrate, sub-apical ones, separated by a vein, the lower 

 longest ; one large oblique cellular one of hour-glass shape ; and three discal ones in 

 echelon, of which one is very large, occupying the entire breadth of the lower median 

 space, irregularly pentagonal, twice as long as broad, separated from the cell-spot only 

 by the black median vein ; the other two smaller, elongate, broadest outwardly. Also 

 with the following opaque markings : one above the cell and one in the interuo-mediau 

 space extending obliquely from the internal vein not far from the base to the lower 

 median vein, which separates it from the basal part of the larger discal spot. Hiiidw'my 

 with a large irregular ochreous patch in the disc just beyond the cell, consisting of two 

 translucent areas joined by the opaque orange-ochreous base of the upper median space, 

 the outer one larger, obliquely quadrate, between the lower sub-costal and upper 

 median branches, the other occupying the basal part of the lower median space. 

 Below blackish, the veins, except near the abdominal margin of both wings, widely 

 bordered with reddish-ochreous. Forewinc/ with the rufous costal area extending over 

 the upper part of the cell ; that in the iuterno-median space much larger and paler 

 than above. Hi ml icing with a number of lustrous lilac markings in the black spaces 

 between the reddish nerve-rays, namely, two in the cell, the basal one elongate, one at 

 the ba.se of the costa, elongate, two in the upper sub-costal space, the outer one 



