26 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



segmeut entirely flesh-coloured, the seventh and eighth creamy-white, with a small 

 dorsal and lateral patch of dark purplish-brown, the three anal segments scutate, all 

 the segments widely pitted and covered with short but coarse black bristles, which are 

 more numerous at the sides and whitish. 



Pupa, of the usual lycsenid shape, brown, marked with a dorsal and lateral black 

 line, the whole surface rough, covered with tiny pits, furnished with a few short coarse 

 Ijristles, which are most numerous round the sharp anterior ridge which encloses the 

 head ; wing cases pale ochreous ; head rounded, anal segment blunt. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, South India. 



Distribution. — Watson records it from Mysore, Hampson from the Nilgiris, 

 2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation ; it is in the B. M. from Trincomali and Karwar ; we 

 have received a fair number of both sexes from Ceylon, a pair of which we figure, and 

 except for the narrow blue-green marginal baud on the hindwing in the male, they are 

 identical with B. phocides, and as some Indian examples of phocides show signs of this 

 green band, having a few blue-green scales where the band should be, we cannot but 

 come to the conclusion that it is at best but a local form of that species, difl:ering 

 constantly but very slightly, and certainly nearer to phocides than it is to sugriva, the 

 .Tavan form, with its broad green border and dark and well-pronounced underside 

 markinfifs. 



BINDAHARA ARECA. 



Plate 710, figs. 2, (J , 2a, $. 



Myrina areca, Felder, Verli. Zool-bofc. Ges. Wien, xii. p. 481, ^ (1862). 



Bindaliara areca, de Niceville (part). Butt, of India, iii. p. 474, pi. 29, fig. 242, $ (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings purpurascent-blackish. Forewing with the 

 outermost part paler. Hindwing with the anal region, an annexed litura, marked with 

 a blue dot near the sub-anal tooth, and the tail pale ochreous. Underside, both wings 

 fulvous-ocbreous, each with a broad discal fascia, palely obsolete, with fuscous catenular 

 strigse, outwardly circled with white ; forewing with the external margin, hindwing 

 with the margin of the apex coucolorous, but shining, the latter with more obsolete 

 spots on the disc, an anteciliary line and a posterior undulate streak l)lackish, 

 beyond this four black spots, the first two obsolete, the remainder much larger, 

 each one inwardly circled with a metallic greenish ring, and a black spot in the 

 anal lobe. 



Only one fine male was collected of this species, so distinct owing to the dark 

 colour on its upper side. It is most nearly related to M. Isabella, Felder, from 

 Amboina, and without doubt it is a representative form, but it has the size of the 

 •lavan species, M. sugriva, Horsfield. The waut of the cyaneous-blue spots on the 



