100 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



with a Ijroad marginal white band from the anal angle narrowing gradually upwards to 

 vein 5, and containing a row of five sub-marginal black spots, the two upper ones small, 

 the third nearly round, the fourth angular, the anal spot small with some grey at its 

 ujDperside containing a few glistening blue scales. Underside as in the male, but the 

 sub-marginal series on the hindwing consists of small pale marks above the upper black 

 sub-terminal spot, and the ground colour of the outer margin is white. 



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



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Bhutan, Burma, Cachar. 



Distribution. — Eecorded by de Niceville from Tenasserim, Sikkim, Buxa, Bhutan ; 

 we have it from the Khasia Hills and from Cachar. 



CHARANA CEPHEIS. 

 Plate 724, figs. 3, (J , 3a, ? , 3b, <? . 

 Charana cepheis, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1894, p. 40, pi. 5, fig. 10, (J. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings glossy purplish-black. Forewing with the 

 basal two-thirds of the iuternomedian area ending outwardly in a point and the basal 

 half of the sutural area rich deep blue of about the same shade as in the male of Camena 

 icetas, Hewitson. Hindwing with the outer half from the second sub-costal nervule to 

 the sub-median nervure, crossed by the black veins, rich deep blue ; a diffused and 

 indistinct sub-marginal black spot in the first median interspace ; the outer margin 

 narrowly black ; and the anal lobe orange-ochreous, bearing a few white and blue 

 scales ; the tails black, fringed and tipped with white. Underside, both wings with the 

 basal two-thirds pale chrome-yellow, the outer third purplish-brown. Forewing with 

 the purplish-brown area bearing two macular deeper brown bands, which are farthest 

 apart in the middle but meet at each end, thus enclosing an oval space of the ground- 

 colour : a sub-marginal whitish thread reaching from the anal angle to the middle of 

 the wing. Hindwing, the outer purplish-brown area bears two macular deeper brown 

 bands, the inner one posteriorly highly zigzag and recurved to the abdominal margin, 

 the outer one reaching only to the second median nervule ; the first median interspace 

 bears a round black spot with an outer rust-red ring ; the anal lobe is jet-black, 

 anteriorly bearing a few turquoise-blue scales, and bearing anteriorly to these again a 

 rust-red line, which is continued to the abdominal margin along the edge of the incised 

 portion of the wing anterior to the anal lobe, this red line defined on both sides with a 

 very narrow black line. Cilia of the hindwing narrowly tipped with white, those of 

 the forewing black. 



This species is very near to C. mandarinus, Hewitson, from Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, 

 and Burma, from which it differs in the following particulars : — The blue coloration of 



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