■128 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



from Kumaon, Watson from the Chin Hills, de Ehe-Philipe from Masuri, Elwes from 

 the Karen Hills and Sikkim, Moore from Kangra, and Crowley from Hainan. 



POLA TUCKERI. 

 Plate 746, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, <J. 

 Ismene tucker!, Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 293, pi. 20, fig. i, ^, Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 60. 



Imago. — Male. Not distinguishable on the upperside from the male of /. ataphus, 

 Watson, but differs from that species in the following particulars -.—Foreiving below 

 having the yellow tinge replaced by greenish. Hindu-ing, vein 8 evenly curved 

 throughout, vein 6 straight. Underside pale greenish-brown, with pale green streaks 

 very narrowly edged with purple, the latter placed as follows : two in cell lb, one in 

 each of cells 2 and 8, and one near the middle of the cell. (Elwes.) 



Expanse of wings, $ 2y q- inches. 



Habitat. — Tavoy, Burma. 



We have not seen this species, the unique type is in coll. Elwes ; we therefore give 

 copies of Elwes' figure. 



POLA AMARA. 

 Plate 746, figs. 3, (J, 3a, ?, 3b, $. 



Ismene amara, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 247 (1857) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 783. 



Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 126. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 329. de Niceville, 



Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 186 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 437 ; and 



X. 1896, p. 683. Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 295. 

 C/ioaspes a»nara, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 440. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, 



p. 54 ; id. Hesp. Ind. p. 8 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 646. 

 Ismene amara pindajjaira, Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 62. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside chocolate-brown, brighter in colour than in ataphus. 

 Forewing with an ochreous-orange sub-costal stripe of about the same length, hut 

 broader at the base and blunt at its termination ; the rounded patch of androconia 

 inconspicuous. Hindwing without markings. Cilia of both wings whitish, brown at 

 its base. Underside with the ground colour blackish-brown. Forewing with the 

 hinder marginal space broadly whitish, extending in its middle into the first median 

 interspace, the rest of the wing with whitish veins, and greyish-blue thick lines running 

 up the centres of all the interspaces. Hindwing with the entire wing with whitish 

 veins and greyish-blue lines in all the interspaces, their ends joined together on the 

 outer maro;in on both wings forming a grevish-blue anteciliarv line. Cilia black, with 

 grey edges. Antennae black, whitish on the underside, a whitish stripe also on the 

 underside of the club ; palpi orange, with a stripe of black hairs beneath, last joint black, 

 face, pectus, legs and abdomen beneath orange, the abdomen with black lateral spots ; head 

 and body chocolate-brown, head tinged with orange, so also is the tip of the abdomen. 



