16 LEPWOPTEBA INDICA. 



first composed of two conjoined spots from the costa, the h^wer inner end touching the 

 upper outer end of the discoidal bar, the next piece of two conjoined spots outwardly 

 curved, the upper inner end touching the lower outer end of the spots above ; the third 

 piece composed of two conjoined spots, the upper ends touching the lower ends of the 

 spots above them and of the discoidal bar, the last piece in a very acute angle to the 

 abdominal margin, with a spot on the margin above it ; both wings with a sub-marginal 

 series of angular lunules, with a series of minute lunular marks between it and the 

 margin on the hiudwing, a small anal black spot, a large one in the first interspace, 

 capped with orange, with a white edge on its outer side and a very small dark spot 

 ringed with white in the interspace between the two black spots. 



Female. Upperside blackish-brown. F'oreiving with the central part pale. 

 Hlndwing with a black outer marginal line and an inner white thread ; anal lobe with 

 an orange spot in it. Underside paler than the male, markings similar. Antennse 

 black, ringed with white ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings ; 

 eyes ringed with white. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1 to Ij^ inches. 



Habitat. — Himalayas, Burma, Sikkim, Assam, China. 



Distribution. — Recorded by de Niceville from Dehra Dhun, Sikkim and Tsenbo, 

 Upper Burma, by Elwes from the Karen Hills, by Mackinnon and de Niceville from 

 ]\Iu3suri ; we have both sexes from the Khasia Hills ; it is in the B. 31. also from 

 Kangra ; the type of j^raiti is in the B. M. from Foochow, and also examples from 

 Kiukiana; in China. 



SINTHUSA AMBA. 

 Plate 708, figs. 3, <J , 3a, ? , 3b, (J . 



Hypolycsena amha, Kirby, in Hewitson's 111. Diurn. Lep. Suppl. p. 32, pi. 5b, figs. 44, 46, cJ ; 45, 2 



(1878). 

 Sinthusa amha, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 461, pi. 44, figs. 12, (J, 19, J (1886). Doherty, Journ. 



As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 427. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 485 (1890). Elwes, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 644. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purple-brown. Foreiolng flushed with purple in the 

 middle. Hlndwing of a brighter purple, the costal space and abdominal fold pale 

 brown, the purple of the wing is edged with black towards the costa, and hindwards it 

 extends in a narrow detached streak just outside the anal spot, edged on both sides 

 with black ; anal lobe black, with some blue scales on it, and a small orange spot on 

 its inner side. Cilia and tails black, the latter tipped with white. Underside grey 

 with a bluish tint, shading darker towards the margins ; markings ochreous-grey. 

 Foreicing with a douljle line at the end of the' cell, a post-medial, almost straight band 

 of oval marks, with orange centres. Hlndwing with a double line at the end of the 



