236 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 1897, p. 237. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 19. 



Imago. — Male. U]3perside olive-brown. Forewing with some ochreous-white 

 .setaj, thickly above the costal vein, and the l)asal two-thirds of the interspaces below 

 the cell, sparsely in the cell and outer portions of the wing ; six ochreous spots, two 

 (one above the other) inside the end of the cell, and one in each of the median 

 interspaces before their middle, two smaller sub-apical spots below the costa, divided 

 from each other by vein 7 near its base. Iliiidwing with the costa pale, the entire 

 wing covered with long ochreous-white hairs ; no markings. Underside paler than the 

 upperside. Foveioing with a blackish shade from the base across the middle of the 

 wing to near the outer margin, spots as on the upperside. Hindiving usually with two 

 or three small ochreous-white spots of a discal series, varying in number in different 

 examples, sometimes all absent. Cilia brown basally, whitish outwardly, the whitish 

 outer portion marked with brown on the forewing. Antennae black, the shaft spotted 

 with white on the underside, the basal half of the clulj grey beneath, the upper half of 

 the club orange ; palpi, head and body above concolorous with the wings, covered with 

 yellowish and white hairs ; on the underside the palpi, pectus and abdomen are 

 greyish-white, thorax brown. 



Female like the male, but on the underside of the hindwings the discal series of 

 ochreous-white spots is usually complete and prominent. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ Ij'q to lyg inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma, IMalay Peninsula. 



Distribution. — The type is from Darjiling ; we have examples of both sexes from 

 Sikkim and the Ataran Valley, Burma, and have received many specimens from the 

 Khasia Hills ; Manders records it from the Shan States, Elwes from the Naga Hills, 

 Watson from Beeling, in Burma, and Distant from the Malay Peninsula. 



PITHAURIA STRAMINEIPENNIS. 

 Plate 811, figs. 2, i, 2a, ? , 2b, $. 



Pithauria sframineipennis, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 388, 



pi. 15, fig. 5, (J. Elwes and de Niceville, id. p. 441. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 443. 



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. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. 



ii. p. 631, pi. 41, fig. 19, <J (1893). de Nice\-ille, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 186 (1894). 



Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 



1897, p. 237. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 144. Friihstorfer, 



Iris, 1911, p. 19. 

 Pithauria murdava, Distant, Pvhop. Malajana, p. 371 (part) (description of female only) (1886). 



