20 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



Female, only differs from tlie male in having the orange patch on the fore wing 

 above, and the black anal spots on the hindwing below, larger. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? l^^ to 1 1% inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas, Kashmir. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussuri, by Leslie 

 and Evans from Chitral, by Doherty from Kumaon, 4,600 feet elevation ; we have 

 both sexes from Kulu and Kashmir ; it is in the B. M. also from Thundiani, Kangra, 

 Dana, Goorais Valley, Narkundah and Dharmsala. 



HYSUDRA HADES. 



Plate 709, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, ^ . 



Hysudra{1) liades, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 318, pi. P, fig. 46, ^ ; id. Journ. 

 As. Soo. Bengal, 1897, p. 560, pi. 4, fig. 29, ? . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings shining fuscous. Forewing with a large 

 dull coppery-red area occupying the middle of the wing crossed by the black veins and 

 bearing a black streak outwardly on the sub-median fold ; this red area just enters the 

 outer end of the discoidal cell and occupies the basal portion of the lower discoidal, 

 median, and sub-median interspaces. Hindiolng streaked between the veins more or 

 less by the same dull coppery-red. Underside, both wings pale fawn-colour, the dis- 

 cocellular nervules marked by a rather broad and prominent paler line. Forewing 

 with a macular outwardly curved discal fuscous band, commencing at the costa, ending 

 close to the sub-median nervure ; an obsolete marginal dark fascia. Hindicing with a 

 discal fuscous band as on the forewing, but more prominent, outwardly defined with 

 white, posteriorly somewhat ferruginous, and recurved to the abdominal margin in a 

 W-shaped figure ; a marginal series of four dark lunules from the first sub-costal to the 

 second median nervule, a marginal oval black spot faintly crowned with orange in the 

 first median interspace, a clump of black and white scales in the sub-median interspace ; 

 the anal lobe black, faintly crowned with orange, with a narrow orange fascia running 

 along the abdominal margin from above the anal lobe to the termination of the discal 

 band ; tail black, tipped with white. Antennae with the shaft black, annulated 

 with white ; the club black, the tip ferruginous ; body black above and fawn-coloured 

 below. I place this species in the genus Hysudra with considerable doubt, but do so 

 because the coloration of the upperside is very similar to that of //. selira, Moore, from 

 the Western Himalayas, and the markings of the underside are almost identical. The 

 tail, however, is twice as long as in //. selira; as far as I can see, however, by the 

 application of benzine to my unique specimen, it does not possess the characteristic 

 male " scale mark " of the genus Hysudra, but instead has that portion of the sub- 

 costal nervure between the point where the first sub-costal nervule arises and the apex 



