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Expanse of wings, $ ? 1^ to 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam. 



DisTRiBUTiox. — The type is marked Darjiling, the type of parca from Sikkim ; 

 we have it from the Khasia Hills ; Elwes records it also from Kina Balu, with all the 

 spots SB jailer than they are in the Indian form ; it is a rare species. 



Genus PITHAURIA. 



Pithauria, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 689. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 378 (1886). 

 Watson, Hesp.Ind. p. 26 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 119. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. 

 ii. p. 631 (1893). AVatson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 431. Elwes and Edwards, 

 Trans. Zool. .Soc. 1897, p. 237. 



Forewing, vein 12 ends on costa well before end of cell, cell less than two-thirds 

 the length of costa ; upper discocellular minute, middle and lower discocellulars in an 

 inwardly oblique straight line, the middle much the longer, vein 5 from their junction, 

 curved upwards from its base ; vein 3 emitted a little less than one-fourth from the 

 lower end of the cell, 2 from a little beyond the middle, the base of vein 2 being alwut 

 as far from the base of vein 3 as the base of that vein is from the end of the cell ; the 

 wing somewhat produced at the apex ; costa slightly arched, apex sub-acute, outer 

 margin convex, about as long as the hinder margin. Hindwing, vein 7 emitted from 

 close to upper end of cell, the upper margin of the cell curved downwards from the 

 base of vein 7 to the cell end ; discocellulars in an outwardly oblique straight line, 

 vein 5 not traceable, veins 3 and 2 emitted at equal distances apart close to the lower 

 end of the cell ; cell short, less than half the breadth of the wing ; costa and apex 

 rounded, the outer margin even. Antennre a little more than half the length of the 

 costa of forewing, club slender, elongate, with a slender terminal curve ; palpi with the 

 second joint laxly scaled, pressed close against the face, third joint minute ; hind tiljiai 

 naked, with two pairs of spurs ; fore coxae conspicuously tufted in the male. 



Type, Ismene murdam, ]\Ioore. 



PITHAURIA MURDAVA. 



Plate 811, figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, (^ . 



Ismene murdava, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 186.5, p. 78-1. 



Pithauria murdava, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 689, pi. 45, fig. 13. Distant (part), Rhop. 



Malayana, p. 371, pi. 35, fig. 9, <J (1868). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 27. 



Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 443. Manders, id. 1890, p. 537. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 27 



(1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 649. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 328. 



Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 119. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 186 (1894). 



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