24t LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



developed from above the middle of discocellulars, which are faint, and slightly out- 

 wardly oblique, the lower the longer, vein 3 emitted a little before the lower end of 

 the cell, 2 from beyond the middle ; the lower part of the wing slightly produced into a 

 lol:)e ; no secondary sexual characters. Autennae with the club short, thickening abruptly, 

 hooked to a fine point ; hind tibiae thickly scaled above with two pairs of spurs. 

 Type, Goniloba sena, Moore. 



BIBASIS SENA. 

 Plate 750, figs. 2, (J , 2a, $ , 2b, £ , 2c, d, larva and pupa. 

 Goniloba sena, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 245 (1857) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 778. 

 Hesperia sena, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 58. 

 Ismeiie sena, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 359. 

 Bibasis sena, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 160, pi. 65, figs. 3, 3a (1881). Wood-Mason and de Niceville, 



Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 379. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 441. Davidson and 



Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 373, pi. F, figs. 2, 2a, larva and pupa. Watson, Hesp. 



Ind. p. 15 (1891). Ehves, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 648. Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



vii. 1893, p. 425. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 330. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, 



Butt. p. 187 (1894). Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. viii. 1894, p. 423. Watson, id. ix. 



1895, p. 437. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. 1897, p. 25. de Rhe-Philipe, id. xi. 1898, p. 602. 



Aitken and Comber, id. xv. 1903, p. 53. Hannyugton, id. xx. 1910, p. 370. Eriihstorfer, 



Iris, 1911, p. 77. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside ochreous-olive-brown, the basal portion of both wings 

 slightly paler than the costa and outer margins. Cilia grey. Underside vinous-brown. 

 Forewing with a large white patch a little beyond the middle of the hinder margin, 

 attached to a large obscure purplish- grey suffused patch from the costa which narrows 

 as it touches the white patch. Hindwing with a broad white discal band from the 

 costa to near the hinder angle, its inner edge even, and slightly outwardly curved 

 below the costa, its outer edge somewhat suffused, the cilia round the anal angle 

 ochreous and a small patch of that colour on the inner anal edge. Antennae black, 

 ochreous beneath; palpi dull ochreous with some grey hairs in front; head and body 

 above and below concolorous with the wings, legs brown, dull ochreous beneath, tarsi 

 and abdomen beneath dull ochreous, the latter with obscure brown and ochreous lateral 

 bands ; tip of abdomen ochreous. 



Female like the male above and below, the wings a little broader. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 2 inches. 



Larva, head very large and rounded, and of a bright red colour, chequered with 

 black. The centre of the back is blue, with three black, longitudinal lines ; the sides 

 are yellow, with transverse blue and black markings. 



Pupa is regular and moderately stout, of a bluish-white colour, with four rows of 

 small black spots on the abdominal segments, and a black diamond on the middle of 

 the l>ack. (Davidson and Aitken.) 



