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very pale cinnamon-brown, often very pale in the females, with the grey discal lines 

 very distinct; the anal black spots and metallic blue-green scales are absent in 

 both sexes. 



Expanse of wings similar. 



Habitat. — N. India, Burma. 



Distribution. — The type is marked North India ; de NiceVille records it from 

 Kumaon, Bhutan, Upper Burma ; Elwes from the Naga Hills ; Watson from Chin 

 Lushai ; we have many examples of both sexes from Sikkim and from the Khasia Hills. 



Genus CHERITRA. 



CherUra, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 109 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayaua, p. 250 (188-5). 

 de Nicevile, Butt, of India, iii. p. 409 (1890). 



Eyes smooth, closely allied to Ticherra, de Niceville, differs in the forewing in 

 vein 9 arising from the middle of 7, in Ticherra it is short, arising nearer the apex of 

 the wincr ; in the hindwing it has the discoidal cell shorter and the discocellular 

 nervules are much less outwardly oblique ; in Ticherra there are no secondary sexual 

 characters, in Cheritra the hindwing of the male has a brush of dark hairs springing 

 from the base of the sub-costal vein and lyiug anteriorly across the sub-costal inter- 

 space, and there is a small glandular, oval, white patch of scales beneath the area 

 covered by the hairs. 



Type, Hesiyeria freja, Fabricius. 



CHERITRA TREJA. 



Plate 742, figs. 2, ^,2a, 9,2b, <J . 



Hesperia freja, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (1), p. 263 (1793). 



Myrina freja, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, pp. 34, 36, figs. 1, la, ? ; id. Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. 



p. 183 (1869). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 834. 

 Sithon freja, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 351. Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 277, pi. 95, (J 



(1888). 

 Cheritra frega, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 251, pi. 20, fig. 10, $ (1885). Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. 



Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 43. Elwes and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 429. de Niceville. 



Butt, of India, iii. p. 409 (1890) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 386. Watson, id. 1891, 



p. 50, and 1897, p. 667. Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 550. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 



p. 640. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 305. 

 Myrina jafra, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 593 (1823). Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 118, pi. 2, 



figs. 5, 5a, 2 , 5b-e, structure of imago (1829). Lucas, Lep. Exot. p. 85, pi. 43, fig. 4, 9 



(1836). Guerin-Meneville, Icon. Eeg. An. Ins. p. 489, pi. 81, fig. 3, J , 3a-e, structure of imago 



(1844). 



