12 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackish-brown with a slight violet tint. Forewlng 

 with a somewhat oval white patch outside the cell, varying in size in different 

 examples. Hindwiiig without markings, tails black, tipped with white, outer marginal 

 line of both wings finely black. Undersider paler with a stronger violet tint. I^orewinc/ 

 with the white patch continued to the hinder margin somewhat constricted at the 

 sub-median vein. Ilindwing with a black anal spot, another usually (but not always) 

 in the first interspace and some obscure blackish spots in the others. Antennae black, 

 ringed with white ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings ; rn) 

 .sex mark in the male. 



Female. Upperside dull greyish-blue. Forewlng with the white patch larger 

 than it is in the male, costal black band rather broad, widening gradually from the 

 base to the apex, filling up the whole apical space outside the white patch and broad 

 down the outer margin to the hinder angle. Ilindwing with the costal space broadly 

 l^lackish, with a small white patch on the middle of the costa, the outer margin with a 

 narrow, more or less macular black band, marginal line finely deep black, with an inner 

 white thread. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ % \ inch. 



Larva. — A single specimen from a larva found feeding in Mussuri on the leaves 

 of Coriaria nepalensis. It is a most curious-looking creature, about half an inch 

 long, of a reddish-brown colour, of the usual lycaenid shape, but furnished with eleven 

 tentacular processes, two on the third segment, one each on the fourth, seventh, eiglith, 

 and ninth segments, all dorsal, the fifth has three, two lateral and one dorsal, the 

 eleventh has two lateral ones. (Mackinnon and de Niceville.) 



Habitat. — India. 



Distribution. — The type came from Dharmsala, N.W. Himalayas ; Mackinnon 

 and de Nieeville record it from Mussuri and Sikkim ; we have it from the Nilgiris, 

 3,500 feet elevation ; it is a rare species, though widely distributed. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Horaga lefevrei, SithoQ lefevrei, Felder, Wien Eiit. Mon. vi. p. 291 (1862). Habitat, Philippines. 

 Soraga ciniata, Sithon ciniata, Hewitson, 111. Diurii. Lep. p. 35, pi. 1-f, tigs. 30, 31 (1803). Habitat, 



Celebes. 

 Horaga iiiseiiala, Sithon ma-nala, Hewitsou, I.e. p. 7, pi. 3, figs. 85, 86 (1869). H. H. Dnice, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 612. Habitat, Borneo. 

 Horaga halba, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 460, pi. 4:4, fig. 23 (1886). Habitat, ^Malay Peninsula 

 Horaga onijchiita, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, p. 113. Habitat, Java. 

 Horaga decolor, Staudinger, I.e. p. 112. Habitat, Philippines. 

 Horaga affinis, Staudinger, I.e. p. 113 (1889). H. H. Druee, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. ijll, pi. 34, 



fig. 9, (J. Fruhstorfer, Berl. Eiit. Zeit. 1898, p. 180. Habitat, Borneo, Nias. 



