192 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Brupadia hoisduvalii, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 31. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 430, pi. 29, fig. 230, ^ (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 530. Watson, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 50. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 641. 

 Biduanda hoisduvalii, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 42. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing black, a very large orange-red patch in 

 the middle, somewhat oval-shaped, outwardly oblique, occupying quite a third of the 

 wing from near the costa to near the sub-median vein ; the costa narrowly, the apical 

 space outside the patch, the outer margin narrowly, deep black, the basal and hinder 

 marginal areas paler black. Hindwing with the costal space broadly black, a thin 

 black band or thick line on the outer margin, abdominal fold brown, the rest of the 

 wing blue, some small black terminal spots between the tails, where the terminal line 

 is black, with an inner white thread ; tails black, tipped with white, with white cilia. 

 Cilia of forewing black, of hindwing white. Underside. Forewing orange-ochreous, 

 bands darker ochreous, hinder marginal space grey, a basal streak, a bar across the 

 middle of the cell, and another at the end, a discal somewhat outwardly curved band, 

 all very narrow ; a sub-marginal series of very fine black lunules, well separated from 

 the margin. Hindwing white, the costal space and apical portions of the wing suffused 

 with orange-ochreous, spots varying in colour from ochreous, some of the inner ones 

 Ijrown, all edged with black, a short basal streak, with a spot below it, followed by 

 three brown spots in a line, a bar at the end of the cell, an irregular discal series of 

 five bars and curved marks, the upper ones ochreous, the lower ones white, the series 

 curving round to the middle of the abdominal margin, a sub-marginal somewhat 

 lunular, fine black line, a black anal spot and another in the first median interspace, 

 both crowned with metallic blue scales. Antennae black, ringed with white, club with 

 an orange tip ; frons white ; head and body above and below concolorous with 

 the wings. 



Female. Upperside brown. Forewing. Upperside usually with the patch about 

 the same size as in the male, but sonjetimes a little more extensive, always paler and 

 more ochreous in colour. Hindwing sometimes with indications of some dull orange- 

 ochreous in its middle, the anal spots generally larger. Underside as in the male, but 

 the colour and markings paler. 



Expanse of wings, $ $, l-j-^ to ly-Q inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Mergui, the Chittagong Hill Tracts. 



Distribution. — The type is said to have come from Pulicondor, but we have not 

 been able to make out the locality. We have it from Mergui and Rangoon, Manders 

 records it from the Shan States, Moore from Moolai (3,000 to 6,000 feet elevation) in 

 Upper Tenasserim ; de Niceville also from Maulmein and the Chittagong Hill 

 tracts. 



