190 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Expanse of wings, <? 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Described by Doherty from two examples taken at Myitta, in the Upper Tenasserim 

 Valley ; we have not been able to ascertain where the type now is ; we give copies of 

 Doherty 's figures. 



INDO-MALAYAN, CHINESE AND JAPANESE ALLIED GENERA AND SPECIES. 



Biduanda theda, Myrina theda, Pelder, Wien, Ent. Mon. vi. p. 291 (1862). Hewitson, 111. Diurn. 

 Lep. pi. 16, figs. 46, 47 (1863). Habitat, Philippines. 



Biduanda cinesia, Myrina cinesia, Hewitson, I.e. p. 29, pi. 13, figs. 18, 19 (1863). Habitat, Borneo. 



Biduanda scseva, Myrina scseva, Hewitson, I.e. p. 30, pi. 15, figs. 39, 40, ^ (1863). Biduanda scseva, 

 de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 210, pi. E, fig. 7, $ . Habitat, Singapore. 



Biduanda thesmia, Myrina thesmia, Hewitson, I.e. p. 32, pi. 14, figs. 2.3, 27, (?, 26, 9 (1863). 

 Biduanda thesmia, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 238, figs. 76, <?, 77, ? (1884). H. H. Druce, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 613. Habitat, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java, Sumatra. 



Biduanda estella, Sithon estella, Hewitson, I.e. p. 31, pi. 16, figs, 50, 51 (1863). Biduanda estella, 

 H. H. Druce, I.e. p. 614. Habitat, Sumatra, Borneo. 



Biduanda nsenia, Myrina nsenia, Hewitson, I.e. p. 33, pi. 13, figs. 21, 22 (1863). Habitat, Celebes. 



Biduanda namusa, Myrina namusa, Hewitson, I.e. figa. 23, 24 (1863). Habitat, Celebes. 



Biduanda thaliarchus, Sithon thaliarchus, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. xiv. p. 277, pi. 95 (1888). 

 Habitat, Minahassa, Celebes. 



Biduanda cineas, Sithon eineas, Grose-Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1889, p. 318. Habitat, Borneo. 



Biduanda unicolor, Sithon thesmia, var. unieolor, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, p. 111. Biduanda unieolor, 

 H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 613. Habitat, Borneo. 



Biduanda demialha, Sithon thesmia, var. demialba, Staudinger, I.e. Habitat, Nias. 



Biduanda cinesoides, de Nice^'ille, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1889, p. 166, pi. A, fig. 7, ^ , and 1890, 

 p. 211, pi. E, fig. 8, 9 . Habitat, Selangore, Malay Peninsula. 



Biduanda thsemia, H. H. Druce, I.e. p. 614, pi. 34, fig. 2, $ . Habitat, Sandakan, Borneo. 



Biduanda hewitsoni, H. H. Druce, I.e. p. 615, and 1896, p. 679, pi. 31, fig. 9. Myrina cinesia, 

 Hewitson (part), 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 29, pi. 12, fig. 20 (only) (1863). Habitat, Borneo. 



Biduanda staudingeri, H. H. Druce, I.e. pi. 34, figs. 5, ^ , 6, ? . Habitat, Borneo. 



Biduanda similis, H. H. Druce, I.e. p. 616. Habitat, Borneo. 



Biduanda imitata, H. H. Druce, I.e. p. 617. Habitat, Borneo. 



Biduanda esla, nov. Upperside. Foreioincj blackish-brown, with a large oval, orange-red patch iu 

 the middle of the wing, curving from a point in the outer end of the cell to near the outer 

 margin above the hinder angle. Cilia blackish. Hiiidioing bright blue, costal space whitish, 

 abdominal fold grey ; tails white, with a black middle stripe, the middle tail very long, longer 

 than in B. thesmia, Hewitson ; marginal line black, with an inner white thread. Cilia white. 

 Underside. Forewing dull orange, the base smeared with wliite, hinder marginal space whitish, 

 a broad dark brown smear above it and the upper and apical portions of the wing broadly 

 suffused with brown. Rindwing white, all the bands and spots as in Marmessus ravindra, 

 Horsfield. Expanse of wings, ^ 1.', inches. Habitat, Sumatra. Type, male, in the B. M. 



