74 LEPIDOPTERA JNDICA. 



palpi shorter and stouter than in Dodoiia, the second joint only reaching the 

 front, the apical joint short and stout; antennal club elongated. 

 Ti-PE.— B. Dcodata. 



BAIONCA DEODATA (Plate 398, fig. 1, la, S). 



Dodona Deodaia, Hewitson, Entom. Monthly Mag. xiii. p. 151 (1876) ; id. Desc. Lep. Coll. Atkinson, 

 p. 3, pi. 1, fig. 1, ? (1879). de Niccville, Butt of India, etc., ii. p. 312 (1S8G). Elwes, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 228, pi. 27, fig. 8. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside. Both wings with the outer third deep 

 fuliginous-black ; the basal third fuliginous-grey, the latter with two transverse 

 subbasal, more or less apparent, paler grey narrow bars; the medial third of the wings 

 being creamy-white and forming a broad transverse outwardly-oblique discal band, 

 which widens and curves outward from the costa of forewing and decreases to a 

 point on the hindwing in the lower median and submedian interspace, from whence 

 it is obsolescently continued and bent inward to the abdominal margin in a broken 

 series of ill-defined grey lunitles. Foreicing also with three inner subapical obliquely 

 superposed white spots, the upper one being transversely elongated or broken, and 

 the lower one much smaller, followed by three outer apical smaller spots, and then 

 by a submarginal npper row of minute spots and a marginal row of slightly-defined 

 23ale greyish-brown lunules, the upper two or three of the latter sometimes being 

 more distinct and whitish. Cilia brown. Hindwing also with two, more or less 

 slightly-defined, submargiual pale greyish-brown lunular lines, the outer line being 

 most distinct and white posteriorly, followed by a more prominently distinct 

 marginal white lunular line ; the anal lobe black irrorated with white scales and 

 encircled by a fine white line; tail black. Cilia white. Underside. Both wings 

 with the outer and basal ground-colour rich purplish-red, the medial discal broad 

 band, basal transverse bands, and the outer markings, very prominent and glossy- 

 white. Foreiving also with the basal and outer interspaces from the lower median 

 to posterior margin suffused with black. Hindwing also with the interspaces 

 between the middle median and submedian ochreous-yellow and bordered by black 

 spots ; anal marginal interspaces black streaked ; anal lobe black. Body above 

 greyish-brown, beneath white ; head ochreous, front white streaked ; palpi white, 

 tip brown ; legs white, middle and hiud tibiae and tarsi pale ochreous ; antenna 

 black; tip oclu-eous. 



Expanse, S ? 1^, to 1 n, inch. 



Habitat. — Lower Burma. 



DisTEiBUi'ioN. — The type specimen, a female, in the Hewitsonian collection, is 

 recorded from Moulmeiu. Mr. H. J. Elwes records "several specimens taken in 

 l\Iarch and April by Mr. W. Doherty in the Karen Hills, East Pegu, at 4000 to 



