92 LEPIDOPTERA IXDICA. 



blackish inner-borderdd dull gre^ bar beyoad the cell, two similar discal spots placed 

 in the median interspaces, a carv'ed oater-discal series bordered outwardly from the 

 upper median branch by an oblique subapical broad white fascia ; followed by a sub- 

 marginal interrupted whitish line. Hindivuyj with an ill-defined discal series of 

 blackish inner-bord(>red didl grey spots, an outer-discalrow, and then a subraarginal 

 interrupted whitish line. Underside paler red than in the male ; with similar 

 markings, except that the forewing has the broad subapical white fascia as on the 

 upporside. 



Expanse, J l-i% to 2, ? 2 to 2^0 inches. 

 Haiutat. — Burma ; Upper and Lower Teuasserim. 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — The type specimens were taken at Ahsown, Upper Tenasserim. 

 " There is a male in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, obtained by Dr. J. Anderson in the 

 Mergui Archipelago in December ; both sexes from Tavoy. Major Marshall has a 

 male taken in the Thoungyeen forests in February and May, and one in the Donafc 

 Range, all by Captain C. T. Bingham" (Butt. Ind. ii. 318). Mr. W. Doherty 

 obtained it in East Pegu in March and April (P. Z. S. 1891, 287). Col C. H. E. 

 Adamson records it " as common in Northern Burma in April, May and June " (List, 

 18i>7, 28). A male from Houngdraw, Tenasserim, taken in November, and a female 

 from the Karen Hills, taken in December, are in the British ]\ruseum. We possess a 

 male from the Thoungja-en Valley, taken in January by Captain Bingham. Both 

 sexes, from the Ataran Valley, Middle Tenasserim, taken by Mr. T. A. Hauxwell, are 

 in Mr. H. Grose-Smith's collection, 



TAXILA THDISTO (Plato 404, figs. 3, 3a, <^ , 3b, c, § ). 



Taxila Tladdo, llewitton, Exotic Buit. ii. Tax. pi. 1, figs. 5,0, ? (1S61). Diuce, Proo. Zool. Soc. LonJ. 



1873, I'. 347. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 317 (188G). 

 Abisara Thuislo, Butler, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1870, p. 3G2. Distant, Rliop. Malayana, p. 191, 



woo'icut, (? ? (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Both wings uniformly very dark indigo-blue or 

 black; cilia black. In some specimens the subapical pale spots of the underside of 

 the forewing show faintly through the deep black ground-colour. Underside. Deep 

 bright-red. Forewing with the apex paler red ; base of the costa, and the posterior 

 border below the median vein greyish-brown ; a glossy cobalt-blue slender straight 

 oblique longitudinal streak extending within the cell below the subcostal, an inner- 

 discal recurved streak which commences at the base of first subcostal interspace, 

 passing outside the middle discocellular veinlet, thence across lower end of the cell to 

 base of the lower median interspace ; a medial-discal transverse row of six small spots of 

 which the one between the upper and lower radials is the largest, and rounded; fol- 

 lowed by an outer-discal row of six somewhat larger spots of which the three ujiper are 



