3-2 LEPIDOPTERA INDIOA. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside mucli as in ej'yx, but the insect is not so black, and 

 the inside purple-blue colour is duller, and much more limited in extent on the hind- 

 wing ; the anal lobe is blackish-brown with a pale dull blue spot in it, not blue as in 

 eryx ; tail black, tipped with white. Cilia greyish-brown. Underside dull ochreous, 

 the discal bands as in eryx, but only faintly indicated on both wings, the hinder 

 marginal space on the forewing is concolorous with the rest of the wing ; the anal lobe 

 is black with an ochreous outer margin, and there is a small black spot above the tail. 

 Antennse black, without white rings, tip of club dull orange, frons and palpi ochreous, 

 the latter with the last joints black, eyes ringed with white, head ochreous, body 

 blackish-brown above, ochreous beneath. 



Female. Upperside like the upperside of eryx, but duller in colour, the anal lobe 

 of the hindwing ochreous with a dull brown spot in it. Underside ochreous as in the 

 male, markings as in the female of eiyx, but the white bands are not nearly so 

 prominent. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ij, $ Ij-^- inches. 



Habitat. — Cachar, Assam. 



Distribution. — The type, a female from Cachar, is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; 

 we 'have received both sexes from the Khasia Hills. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Leiiera anna, H. H. Druce, Ent. Mo. Mag. ser. 2, vii. p. 78 (189i) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, 

 p. 680, pi. 31, fig. 8, ? . Fi-uhstorfer, Iris, 1904, p. 148, (J, Habitat, Borneo. 



Genus DEUDORIX. 



Dcudorix, Hewitson (part), 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 16 (1863). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 102 (1881). 

 Distant (part), Rhop. Malayana, p. 277 (1885). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 448 (1890). 



Eyes hairy. Forewing, vein 12 ends on the costa opposite the end of the cell, 

 11 emitted from the cell at about two-thirds from the base, 10 at three-fourths, 9 from the 

 middle of 7, G from the upper end of the discocellulars, 5 from the middle, discocellulars 

 upright, concave, the lowest the longer ; vein 3 emitted some little distance before the 

 lower end of the cell ; wing triangular, apex acute, outer margin oblique and almost 

 even, anal angle acute, hinder margin straight. Hindwing, vein 8 strongly arched at 

 the base, 7 emitted some little distance before upper end of the cell, discocellulars 

 outwardly oblique, in a straight line, the lower slightly the longer, vein 3 emitted just 

 before the lower end of the cell, wing short, produced hindwards, outer margin uneven, 

 a slender tail from end of vein 2, short and filamentous in both sexes, anal lobe large ; 

 body robust, palpi porrect, projecting one-third beyond the head, attenuated at their 



