238 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



called Heptapleuvum venulosum, a kind of ivy. We have since bred the insect in 

 (juantities at all seasons of the year both above and below the ghats ; it is probably to 

 be had throughout the districts ; it has only once been seen outside our cages, on a 

 cow-dropping in a dark place, in evergreen jungle ; it is probably a dusk-flier, if not an 

 al)3olute night-flier. The flight is heavy and fluttering in the daytime. (Davidson, 

 Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, South India. 



Distribution. — The type male is marked N.E. Bengal ; we have it from Sikkim, 

 the Khasia Hills and from Kanara. 



BURARA HARISA. 

 Plate 749, figs. 1, cf, la, 9, lb, $. 



Ismene Jiarisa, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 24:7 (1857) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 186.5, p. 782. 



Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 55 ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 126. de Niceville, 



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



id. idem, x. 1896, p. 683. Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 293. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 61. 

 Choaspes harisa, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 84, pi. 10, fig. 8, ^ . Watson, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 26. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 439 ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 



p. 646. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside vinaceous-brown. i<^y/'ei«OT^ with a short, dull, orauge- 

 ochreous sub-costal streak, obscure in many examples, a pale space inside the cell, the 

 basal two-thirds of the flrst median interspace pale, a pale streak in the interno-median 

 interspace, all these pale portions whitish-grey and some obscure streaks in the inter- 

 spaces beyond the cell-end paler than the ground colour of the wing, all the veins 

 rather prominently brown, and a brown outer marginal line. Cilia grey. Hindwing 

 with the costal space above the sub-costal vein and the basal two-thirds of the inter- 

 space below it greyish-white, the rest of the wing vinaceous-brown, with (in some 

 examples) a few obscure streaks in the disc, slightly paler than the ground colour. 

 Cilia orange. Underside. Forewing with nearly the whole space below the median 

 vein and its second ])ranch greyish-white, the rest of the wing pale vinaceous-brown, 

 tinged with ochreous, some obscure ochreous streaks within the cell, an outwardly 

 curved short band of obscure ochreous streaks outside the cell and the outer margin 

 paler and tinged with ochreous. Ilindwing streaked with ochreous, all the veins being 

 of that colour, and an indistinct short discal band composed of ochreous streaks as in 

 the forewing, a black basal spot. Antennae black, ochreous-grey beneath. Palpi, 

 pectus and legs ochreous ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings, 

 abdomen beneath ochreous, with black lateral spots. 



Female. Much resembling the female of vasutana in the colour of the upperside, 



