196 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



a black band of irregular large spots generally connected with each other, a small one 

 at the anal angle connected along the margin with a very large spot or patch in the first 

 median interspace, and a smaller one in the next interspace, a spot above its lower 

 outer end connected with the inner upper end of the large spot, and this also is joined 

 to a spot on the abdominal margin, marginal line black. Cilia white ; tails white, with a 

 middle black line. Underside dark reddish-orange. Foreiving without markings. Hind- 

 wing with the lower third white, limited by a black irregular line, a black anal spot 

 attached to a black band which crosses the next interspace and a black lunule on the 

 margin below it, a still larger black spot on the margin in the first median interspace, 

 a smaller one in the next interspace, followed by two or three very small marginal 

 spots somewhat lunular in shape, marginal line black, divided by the white tails. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white, all white beneath except the club, the club with a 

 dull red tip ; frons black, with a white line on each side ; head and body black above, 

 thorax white beneath, abdomen ochreous, legs black, with white at the sides, tarsi with 

 broad white bands. 



Female, like the male above and below, but the colour above is less black. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ l-f'^ to 1 ^V inches. 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java. 



Distribution. — de Niceville records it from the Chittagons Hill tracts in 

 Arakan, and in the Bassein district ; we have both sexes from Java and Borneo. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Eooxylides meduana, Myrina meduana, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Suppl. p. 4, pi. 3, figs. 75, 76 (1869). 



Habitat, Philippines. 

 Eooxylides etias, Hypolycffina etias, Distant and Pryer, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 268. 



Eooxylides etias, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 618, and 1896, p. 680, pi. 31, fig. 12, ^ . 



Habitat, Borneo. 

 Eooxylides estella, Sithon estella, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xxxiii. p. 299 (1890). Habitat, Celebes. 

 Eooxylides enganicus, Eooxylides tharis enganicus, Friihstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1894, p. 201. 



Habitat, Engano, Philippines. 

 Eooxylides latipictus, Eooxylides tharis latipictus, Eriihstorfer, Iris, 1903, p. 311. Habitat, Nias. 

 Eooxylides tharisides, Eooxylides tharis tharisides, Friihstorfer. Habitat, N. Borneo. 

 Eooxylides javanicus, Eooxylides tharis j a vanieus, Friihstorfer, I.e. Habitat, W. Java. 



