22 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



running very close to 7 ; discocellulars upright, slightly concave, vein 3 from a little 

 before the lower end of cell, costa slightly curved, apex rounded, outer margin some- 

 what convex, hinder margin straight. Ilindwing, discocellulars very straight, of equal 

 length, outwardly strongly oblique ; vein 3 emitted some little distance before lower 

 end of the cell ; costa evenly curved, outer margin straight to the end of vein 3, where 

 there is a small angle, a long narrow filiform tail at the end of vein 2, in the male 

 shorter than in the female, in which sex it is ciliated or fluffy, a well-developed, 

 narrow anal lobe. Male without secondary sexual characters. 

 Type, Myrina lapithis, Moore. 



ARAOTES LAPITHIS. 

 Plate 709, figs. 3, $ , .3a, ? , 3b, $. 



Myrina lapithis, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 48 (1857). Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 36, 

 pi. 15, figs. 35, 36, S, 37, 38, ? (1863). Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 549. 



Sithon lapithis, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 351. 



Bidiianda lapithis. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 238, pi. 20, fig. 29, 9 (1884). Moore, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 42. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 260. 



Araoies lapithis, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 446, pi. 29, fig. 237, ^ (1890). Elwes, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 642. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing black, the hinder basal two-thirds of the 

 wing below the median vein dark blue, brilliant in certain lights. Hindwing with the 

 whole of the wing brilliant dark blue, the abdominal fold blackish ; the long anal lobe 

 black ; tail black, tipped with white, with a few metallic blue-green scales at its root. 

 Cilia black. Underside. Foreioing ochreous-red, a black, outwardly oblique band from 

 the outer end of the cell to the sub-median vein and from thence sufFusedly to the 

 hinder margin ; another similar band, its upper end from the median vein close to the 

 upper end of the other band, inwardly oblique forming a A-shape, the space inside 

 them pure white ; a discal thin band or thick, somewhat irregular line, broken at 

 vein 4, then recommencing a little outwardly ; terminal line black. Hindicing white, 

 a broad ochreous-red marginal band from the costa, terminating abruptly a little below 

 vein 4, the white space covered with large black spots and marks, a bar across the 

 middle of the cell, another a little before its end with a spot above it ; a discal well 

 curved series of spots, composed of a spot outside the upper end of the cell, a curved bar 

 a little outwards, opposite the end of the cell, two attached spots, slightly outwardly 

 oblique, and three detached spots in a line on to the abdominal margin above its middle, 

 a large V-shaped mark Itelow them in an outwardly oblique form, the upper end of its 

 outside portion touching the outer of the three spots in a line ; anal lobe black with 

 some pale blue scales above it, a l)lack sub-terminal spot in the first interspace, capped 

 with pale metallic l)lue, which is a part of a luuular band of metallic blue scales all 



