74 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



and submedian vein, which, as seen under the " binocular," is clothed with brown 

 and whitish scales, the brown scales being of the same size and the ordinary 

 scoop-shape, and the white scales of half their width, and interspersed between the 

 layers are a few projecting longer thread-like white scales, and a contiguous lower 

 elongated patch which is creamy- white along its upper portion and iridescent grey 

 along the extreme posterior border. Hindioing with the submarginal and marginal 

 white spots as above, a small bluish-white spot within end of the cell, and a some- 

 times complete discal series of small spots ; some white dots also at base of the wing. 

 Female differs on the forewing only in having the posterior margin straight, and on 

 the hindwing in the somewhat larger submarginal and marginal spots. Underside 

 with the streak between the median and submedian, and the discal spots bluish- 

 white. Body dark brown ; thorax in front and beneath, head, palpi, and legs black, 

 spotted with white. 



Expanse, ^ ? 3 to 3-|^ inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Burma, Siam. 



Distribution. — Obtained by Mr. 0. Limborg at "Hatseiga, Houuduran source, 

 Upper Tenasserim, in December" (P. Z. S. 1878, 823). Several specimens were 

 also taken by Capt. 0. T. Bingham in the forests of the Thoungyeen Valley, Donat 

 Eange, in March. It also occurs in Tavoy, and Dr. J. Anderson obtained it in 

 the " Mergui Archipelago from November to December" (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 

 30). The type specimen was from Siam, and it has also been obtained by Mr. E. L. 

 Layard near Bangkok, and at Chentaboon, a mountainous and wooded district 200 

 miles from Bangkok on the coast of the Grulf (P. Z. S. 1874, 103). Specimens of 

 this species are in the collection of the British Museum from Salanga, a small island 

 off the Malay Peninsula. 



MENAMA SIMULATRIX (Plate 18, fig. 1, la, b, c, (J ? ). 

 Eziploea (Crastia) simulatrix, Wood-Mason and De Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1881, p. 229, 

 S ; id. 1882, p. 15, pi. 3, fig. 1, 2, <? ? . Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 76 (1882). 

 Vadebra simulatrix, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883. p. 261. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside very dark purplish-brown, suffused with a violaceous- 

 blue gloss in some lights, the external borders being broadly paler and imglossed. 

 Foreiving, in some specimens, with a minute white subapical spot situated between 

 the lower subcostal and the upper radial. Hindiving with a large broad upper 

 discoidal patch of paler brown, clothed with densely packed laxly-raised narrow 

 round-tipt scales, the costal border in front being cinereous and also slightly 

 iridescent. Underside somewhat paler, and of a violet-brown, the dark basal area 

 violet-glossed in some lights, the pale outer borders broader. Forewing with an 

 obliquely-disposed subapical series of three minute bluish-white spots, a small spot 



