CHERITBIN^. 205 



Cheriira acte, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 127. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, id. 



p. 369. 

 Ticherra acte, de Niceville, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 457, pi. 40, fig. 5, (J, Dry-season form ; id. Butt. 



of India, iii. p. 407, pi. 28, tig. 225, ^ , Wet-season form (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. 1891, p. 50. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 640. Swinlioe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 305. 

 SitJion acte, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 277, pi. 95, Wet-season form (1888). 

 Myrina gymira, Hewitson, Ent. Mo. Mag. xiii. p. 152 (1876); id. 111. Diurn. Lep. Suppl. p. 26, pi. 3b, 



figs. 107, 108 (1878) ; id. Descr. new Ind. Lep. Ins. coll. Atkinson, p. 3 (1879). 

 Ticherra symira, de Niceville, I.e. p. 408. 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purple. Forewing with an outer marginal 

 narrow black band. Hindwing with the apical and outer margins and the anal space 

 liroadly black, the black colour on both wings merging into the dark purple of the 

 wings and only distinguishable in certain lights, abdominal fold pale blackish, a small 

 pale space at the anal angle distinguishing a black anal lobe, two white spots above it ; 

 a black marginal band from the anal angle to the end of vein 3, with an inner white 

 line ; tails ochreous-grey, with the black colour running up them for a short distance. 

 Cilia of both wings black, white from the anal angle to the end of vein 3. Underside 

 reddish-chrome-yellow. Forewing with an indistinct grey line crossing the end of the 

 cell, often obsolete, and a similarly indistinct lunular discal line. Hindwing with two 

 indistinct post-discal grey lunulac lines which curve inwards to the abdominal margin, 

 being more distinct at the curve than they are anteriorly, a band of blackish suffusion on 

 the margin from vein 3 to the anal angle and continued narrowly above the excavation 

 on the abdominal margin, with blue -green metallic scales on it, a rather large black anal 

 spot, and another on the first median interspace ; marginal line black, with an inner 

 white line from vein 3 to the anal angle. Antennae black, with white dots beneath ; 

 frous black, eyes ringed with white. 



Female. Upperside a little paler than the male, blackish-brown, without any 

 purple, usually there are three white spots in the anal area and sometimes indications 

 of faint white spots running up the wing sub-marginally. Underside like the male, 

 but the curve of the two discal lunular lines is filled up with pale yellowish-white, 

 more or less indistinct lunular marks. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ IfV to l-j-V inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Ic, $, Id, ?, le, ?). 



Male and Female. Upperside like the male, but the white spots in the anal space 

 are larger, in the female sometimes very much larger and square in shape, and the 

 black anal space is often broken near the margin into square black spots. Underside 



