88 LEPIDOPTEBA lyDICA. 



liiudwards and becoming wliite towards the anal angle, a large black sub-terminal spot 

 al)ove tlie upper tail, a small one at the anal angle, a suffused brownish spot or mark 

 between them, a short double sei'ies of brownish lunular marks on the white ground 

 above them. Underside paler than in the male, markings similar. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1^ to l-^ inches. 



Larva, green, hairy, depressed ; head black, second and third segments increasing 

 in size, marked with short red and black lines, the following segments of equal size, 

 the three anal ones dorsally flattened and marked above with crimson. 



Pupa, of the usual lycjenid shape, yellowish-green ; head and thorax emerald-green. 

 Described from Horsfield and Moore's figures, (de IS^iceville.) 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Naga Hills, South India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, 

 Java, Borneo, Nias. 



Distribution. — Common in Sikkim and Assam ; we have received many examples 

 of both sexes from the Khasia Hills ; Elwes records it from the Karen Hills, Watson 

 from Chin Lushai, Hampson from the Nilgiris ; a widely spread and common species. 



Genus BRITOMARTIS. 



Britomartis, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soe. 189.5, p. 30i. 



Eyes naked. Male. Foreiuing, short, broad ; costa regularly and evenly some- 

 what strongly arched ; apex rounded ; outer margin regularly convex ; inner angle 

 rounded ; inner margin almost straight, longer than the outer margin ; costal nervure 

 ending opposite the apex of the discoidal cell ; first sub-costal nervule emitted nearer 

 the apex of the cell than the base of the wing, bowed upwards near its origin and 

 almost touching the costal nervure ; second sub-costal arising twice as far from the first 

 sub-costal as it does from the upper discoeellular nervule ; discoidal cell somewhat 

 broad, reaching to the middle of the wing ; upper discoeellular nervule stout, long, 

 strongly outwardly oblique; middle discoeellular long, upright, concave; lower 

 di.scocellular longer than the middle one, slightly inwardly oblique, concave ; 

 second median nervule arising well before the lower end of the cell ; first 

 median arising twice as far from the second as the second does from the 

 third ; sulD-median nervure straight ; a large patch of androconia on the upperside 

 of the wing occupies the outer three-fourths of the cell, and extends into the 

 discoidal and median interspaces. Ilindusing broad ; costa arched at base, thence 

 to apex slightly curved only ; outer margin interiorly straight, somewhat produced 

 like the teeth of a saw at the terminations of the second and first median nervules ; 

 tails two, short, the outer arising at the termination of the first median 

 nervule, rather longer than the inner at the termination of the sub-median 

 nervure ; anal lobe small ; abdominal margin excavated above the anal lobe, then 



