220 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Ilindwing with the outer marginal third glossed with a similar colour, the abdominal 

 area very little paler than the rest of the wing ; tail black, the long anal lobe with 

 metallic blue-green scales on it and black cilia ; tail filamentous, tipped with white. 

 Cilia of both wings black. Underside. Forewing, basal half milk-white, hinder marginal 

 space broadly white, with some chocolate-grey suflfusion on it, outer half of the wing 

 above the suflfusion bright chocolate-brown, varying in extent in diflferent examples, 

 a discal blackish line edged outwardly with white lunules, nearly straight down, its 

 lower end running into the suffusion in a slight inward bend, some dark sufi'used 

 sub-marginal patches. Hindwing with the inner two-thirds milk-white, the outer third 

 chocolate-brown, becoming orange-red hindwards, the inner half of the chocolate-brown 

 part darker than the outer, forming a more or less distinct band, some black spots 

 above the anal angle, with metallic blue-green scales, a black transverse bar above 

 them (in the white part) close to the abdominal margin, some of the orange colour 

 running narrowly and faintly up the wing near the outer margin, outer marginal line 

 of both wings black, with an inner white line. Cilia of both wings white, tipped with 

 black on the hindwing. Antennae black, prominently ringed with white, club with 

 a red tip, with a white stripe beneath, at the base ; frons pure white ; eyes ringed 

 with white ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside brown. Forewing with the interior portion pale and some- 

 what ochreous-brown. Hindwing with a white patch above the tails, which are black 

 tipped with white, the long anal lobe containing some metallic blue-green spots, 

 a more or less diffuse black spot in each of the three anal interspaces, the extra tail at 

 the end of vein 3 very short. Underside. Forewing with the basal half white, 

 outer half clear, pale ochreous-orange. Hindwing with the basal two-thirds white, 

 the outer third ochreous-orange, the markings as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ l\, $ 1^ to ly% inches. 



Habitat. — Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Burma. 



DiSTKiBUTlON. — The type is said to have come from the Coromandel Coast, which 

 is highly improbable. Distant records it from Sungei Ujong, Moore from Java and 

 Sumatra, Horsfield from Java, de Niceville from Selangore ; we have both sexes from 

 Malang in Java and from Deli, Sumatra, and there is a male in the B. M. from 

 Meetan, a female from Bankasvon, labelled A. 0. Hume, and a pair from Tenasserim 

 Valley, taken by Bingham, from which our figures and description are made. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Sithon micea, Myrina micea, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye. Suppl. p. 6, pi. 3, fig. 81, ^ (1869). 



Synonym, Sithon valida, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, pi. 33, fig. 4, 9 . Habitat, Borneo. 

 Sithon penhoebis, Semper, Reise, Philipp. ii. p. 20, pi. 32, tig. 21. Habitat, Philippines. 



