48 LEPIDOPTERA IN DIG A. 



Our illustrations of this species, on Plate 391, are from the male and female 

 type specimens in the British Museum. 



CALINAGA STJDASSANA (Phite 391, fig. 2, 2a, S)- 



Calinaga Sudassana, Melvill, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, i). 121, pi. 7, fig. 1, 2, J. Watson, Mem. 

 Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc. 1899, pi. 4, fig. 2, 2a, ^. 



Male. Upperside fuliginous-black ; veins black. Forewing with a dull greyish- 

 white outer marginal lower row and a submarginal entire row of rounded spots ; a 

 discal series of spots, of which the three upper are small, the two next in the median 

 interspaces longer, the two lower forming' elongated streaks, and extending together 

 to the base of the wing, these latter being also slightly coalescent with the two 

 lower spots of the inner submarginal series ; cell-area with a broad basal grey 

 streak and a duplex broad patch beyond. Hindwing with the ground-colour of the 

 outer area deep fuliginous-brown ; a submarginal row of five whitish small round 

 spots, an upper discal and an inner-discal row of elongated streaks, the two latter 

 series being slightly coalescent, longitudinally, and also with the corresponding 

 submarginal spots ; base of costal border, the cell-area and abdominal margin 

 broadly from the median vein to the middle whitish, the lower abdominal area to 

 the anal angle being bright yellowish-ochreous. 



Underside. Foreirivg. Dark ground-colour paler; veins black; the greyish - 

 white markings as above, the outer marginal row being obsolescent. Hindwing. 

 Ground-colour dark ochreous-browu ; veins black; markings similar to above, but 

 dull ochreous-white, the anal angle being broadly brownish-ochreous. Thorax 

 rich red ; abdomen black. 



Expanse, c? 4 to 4i^ inches. 



Haiutat. — Upper Burma ; Upper Siam. 



DiSTiiiBCTiox. — The type specimens, three males, were obtained by Mr. R. 

 Roberts, C.B., in the mountainous regions about 100 miles N.W. of Chieng Mai, 

 Siam (Melvill, I.e.). Three specimens were taken by Capt. Longe, R.E., in the 

 Northern Shan States, at Kunlon, on the Chinese frontier East of Bhamo (Capt. 

 E. Y. Watson, Note). Mr. L. de Niceville says, " I have specimens from the Kunlon 

 Ferry, Salween River, N. Shan States, taken on March" 11th, 1895, and Mr. J. A. 

 Hauxwell obtained three males on the Toungoo Hills at about 2000 to 2500 feet 

 elevation, also in March " (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1899,332). Three specimens 

 taken by Mr. Hauxwell in Toungoo, are in Mr. H. Grose-Smith's collection. 



MiMiCEY. — This species is an excellent mimic of the Euploeine butterfly Cadiiga 

 Tytia, occurring in the same localities. 



Chinese ^vecies.— Calinaga Davidis, Oberthiir, Etudes Ent. iv. p. 107 (1879). 



