210 LEPWOPTEBA INDICA. 



angled at the end of vein 2, a very long tail (2^ inches in length) at the end of the 

 sub-median vein which runs through it to its end, a sliorter tail, nearly an inch long, 

 at the end of vein 2 ; tails usually of about equal length iu both sexes. 

 Type, Myrbia amrlta, Felder. 



NEOCHERITRA AMRITA. 



Plate 743, ligs. 2, <J, 2a, ?, 2h, $. 



Myrina amrtta, Felder, Wiea Ent. Mon. iv. p. 395 (1860). Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lap. p. 27, pi. 11, 

 figs. 1, ? , 2, 3, S (1863). Butler, Trans. Litm. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1877, p. 5.50. 



Sithon amrlta, Kheil, Rhop. Nias, p. 32 (1884). 



Neocheritra amrita, Distant (part), Rhop. Malayana, p. 252, pi. 23, fig. 12, ^ (1885). de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, iii. p. 402 (footnote) (1890). Ehves, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 640. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violaceous-blue. Forewing with the blue colour 



somewhat suffused with black, especially at the base and up to the middle above the 



hinder margin, the costa with an increasing black band, and more than the outer half 



of the wing black, the blue colour merging into the black. Hiadwing paler, the blue 



colour clearer, the costal space very broadly pale, the abdominal fold brown, some 



black suffusion below the pale costal space, the outer margin with a black band, 



moderately broad at the apex, narrowing hindwards to the end of vein 3, from thence 



to the end of vein 2 there is a marginal white band with a black line on its upper side, 



a black spot at the end of vein 2, another at the anal angle, with a thin black band on 



the margin between them, a white band above it, and a black spot above that, 



and indications of some white and another black spot again above ; tails white, 



with the blue colour running up them for half their length, with a white thread 



running up the middle of the blue. Cilia of both wings black, pure white on 



the lower half of the hindwing. Underside. Forewing bright ochreous, the 



lower portion of the wing below the median vein white. Hindwing white, 



the apex and costa suflused with ochreous, the lower fourth of the wing crossed 



by a black band of thick lunules, the two outer ones disconnected ; a black anal 



spot, another a little out of line in the next interspace, followed by a black 



elongated spot or bar in the following interspace, a black triangular small spot at the 



base of the outer tail, the same at the inner tail, the black running up it for one-third 



of its length, marginal line black. 



Female. Upperside blackish-brown. Forewing without markings. Hindwing with 

 three rather large white spots, in a transverse row (sometimes joined together), above 

 the anal angle, a black anal spot, a black square spot in each of the next two inter- 

 spaces, a white lunule on the margin in each of these interspaces ; tails white, with a 

 black band up the middle of the inner one. Cilia as in the male. Underside like the 



