58 LEPIDOPTEBA IXDICA. 



tion, and several in that of Dr. N. Manders, all taken in the low countn- " (J. A. S. 

 Bengal, 1899, 195). 



Oiu' illustrations on Plate 394, figs, 1, la, are from a Nilgiri male, in Mr. F. 

 Godman's collection. 



LIBYTHEA LIBEBA (Plate 391, fig. 2, 2a, S)- 

 Libi/tlf'a Libera, de Xiceville, Journ. Bombay, Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 207, pi. D. tiij. 6, (J. 



Imago. — " Male. Upperside. Both wings rich glossy brown, rather paler to- 

 wards the base. Cilia brown. Foreicing with an oblique oval whitish spot outwardly 

 faintly defined with ochreous at the end of the diseoidal cell ; a similar round spot 

 in the middle of the first median interspace; a tripartite subcostal white spot placed 

 about midway between the end of the cell and the apex of the wing, its uppermost 

 portion a mere dot, its middle portion twice the size, its lower-most portion quadi-ate 

 and very much larger; two rounded spots placed outwardly and below the subcostal 

 spot, divided by the lower diseoidal uervure. llindii-ing with a large quadrate 

 whitish spot on the middle ofthecosta; an oblique di.scal macular ochreous band 

 formed of four portions, tlie one towards the apex of the wing the largest. Under- 

 side. Foreivinrj fuscous-brown, the apex paler and mottled with whitish ; the spots 

 as above, but the subcostal completely amalgamated; the basal half of the cell 

 occupied bv a dull ochreous band. Eindwing glossy purplish-brown, heavily 

 striated with white ; au oblique quadrate white spot on the middle of the costa 

 bounded posterioi-ly by the first subcostal nervule ; a white increasing streak from 

 near the base of the wing extending to the middle of the wing placed on the sub- 

 costal nervure ; an oblique narrow whitish band extending from near the abdominal 

 margin to near the apex of the wing, coincident with the ochreous macular band of 

 the upperside." 



Expanse, 6 2^q inches. 



Haeitat. — Lower Burma; Tenasserim; Malay Peninsula. 



" Yerv near to L. Xarina, Godt, from Ceram, and to L. Eohini, differing from the 

 latter species, however, in its larger size, the spot in the cell and the one below it 

 in the first median interspace of the forewing not being ' pure white ' but outwardly 

 defined with ochreous; the discal band on the hindwing ochreous instead of pure 

 white, and more macular ; and the cilia throughout concolorous with the wings 

 instead of whitish. The underside is darker, the white striations much less 

 numerous " (de Xiceville, I.e.) 



DiSTKiBUTiox. — " A single specimen was taken at Syinbyudlne on the Tavoy- 

 Siam frontier in December." A male from Tilin Yaw, taken in March, by Capt. 

 E. Y. Watson, and another from Thounsveen, taken in I'ebruarv, is in the British 



