304 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



CALTORIS TULSI. 

 Plate 827, figs. 1, S, ^^, 9,1b, <? . 



Parnara tuhi, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 86, pi. x. fig. 1, ^ . Elwes, Trans. Ent 

 Soc. 1888, p. 449. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 44 (1891). Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 1897, p. 284. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 56. 



Caltoris lulsi, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 324. 



Baoris {Parnara) tuhi, de Nicev-iUe, Gazetteer of Sikkini, Butt. p. 183 (1894). Watson, Journ. 

 Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. is. 189.5, p. 435. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark viuaceous-brown. Foreic'mg with dull ochreous 

 hairs at the base and on the basal half of the interspaces below the cell, six semi- 

 diaphonous ochreous-white spots (nearly pure white) all in a continuous series ; three 

 sub-apical in an outwardly oblique curve, minute ; the lower three in an inwardly 

 oblique straight line, near the bases of interspaces 4, 3 and 2, increasing in size 

 hindwards. Jrliiidwinff with the base and disc and the abdominal area covered with 

 long, dull ochreous hairs, no markings. Cilia of both wings cinereous, with whitish 

 tips towards the anal angle of hindwing. Underside a little paler and without the 

 ochreous hairs. Forewing with the spots as above, but more ochreous-tinted, the costal 

 space, including the upper half of the cell, smeared with violet-grey, and some slight 

 suffusion of that colour on the outer and lower portions of the wing. Hindwing with 

 a broad patch of violet-grey suffusion across the middle of the wing, the inside space 

 also slightly suffused. Cilia of both wings much paler than on the upperside and 

 inclining to white. Antennae black, the upper part of the shaft and the lower part 

 of the club whitish on the underside ; palpi, head and body concolorous with the 

 wings, thickly covered with violet-grey hairs on the underside. 



Female like the male, the violet-grey suffusion on the underside more extensive 

 and more intense ; on the forewing it expands into a sort of band outside the cell end, 

 which is continued more or less to the hinder angle ; on the hindwing it is darker 

 violet-grey, more violet than grey. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ l-f^ to ly^^- inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam. 



Distribution. — The types from Sikkim are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; we 

 have both sexes from Sikkim, and have received a good many examples from the 

 Khasia Hills, where it seems to be somewhat common. 



CALTORIS AUSTENI. 



Plate 827, figs. 2, ^, 2a, ? , 2b, <? . 



Baoris nusteni, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 533. Watson, id. 1893, p. 106. 

 Baoris (Parnara) austeni, de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 183 (1894). Watson, Journ. 

 Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. is. 1895, p. 435 ; id. idem, x. 1896, p. 682. 



