98 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



space between it and tlie margin suffused with brown at the apex, the suffusion narrowing 

 hindwards, and j-unning down the margin to the hinder angle in the form of a narrow 

 band. Ilindwing with a prominent black spot below the costa, its lower side touching 

 the upper end of the cell, a small one near the apex, a sub-marginal series of brown 

 luuules, and a small black sub-terminal spot in each of the three anal interspaces, 

 terminal line of both wings finely brown. Antennae black, ringed with white, club 

 with a red tip ; frons bluish-grey ; head and body above and below concolorous with 

 the wings. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing brown, a broad outwardly curved and somewhat 

 sinuous dull red discal band which runs outside the end of the cell to the middle of the 

 disc, and then curves downwards ; this band varies somewhat in shape and in extent in 

 different examples, the colour of the wing outside the band is darker than the rest of 

 the wing and inclines to blackish-brown, and there are no basal blue irrorations. 

 Ilindwing entirely l:)lackish-brown, the abdominal fold pale brown ; a sub-marginal band 

 of four large white, spear-shaped spots in the anal interspaces, their acute points 

 inwards, their outer sides with rather large black spots attached to them (one being in 

 the anal lobe), only separated from the margin by a white thread which is inside the 

 marginal blackish line. Underside as in the male, but the black sub-costal spot in the 

 hindwing is absent, the black spot near the apex is larger than it is in the male, and 

 the black sub-terminal spot in the first interspace and the anal lobe spot are much 

 larger and more prominent, being deep black. 



Expanse of wings, ^ 1 to 1-j^, $ 1--^ to 1-^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sylhet, Assam, Burma, Mergui, Malay Peninsula. 



Distribution. — Recorded by de Niceville from the Mergui Archipelago, Myitta in 

 Tenasserim, and the Malay Peninsula ; we have received several examples of both sexes 

 from the Jaintia and Khasia Hills ; the type came from Sylhet. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Snasa liris, Sithon liris, Staudinger, Iris, ii. p. 110, pi. i. fig. 10, ,J (1889). Suasa liris, 

 H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 603. Habitat, Philippines, Borneo. 



Suasa suessa, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1893, p. 337, pi. H, figs. 8, ^ , 9, 9 • Habitat 

 Perak, Selangor. 



Genus CHARANA. 



Clinrana, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 401 (1890). 



Nearest to Tajuria, Moore, with which it agrees in neuration, and in the absence 

 of secondary sexual characters in the male. Differs from it in having the inner tail to 

 the hindwing from the termination of the sub-median nervure about twice as long in 



