S6 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



the lower median and submedian vein. Hindiving with a submarginal row of small 

 oval brownish-white spots, and a marginal row of rounded spots, which, in extremely 

 rare instances, are more or less obsolescent; costal margin glossy brownish-cinereous. 

 Underside olivaceous-brown. Foreimig with a distinct violet- white costal spot above 

 end of the cell, and sometimes a slender spot between the second and third sub- 

 costals ; a spot which is sometimes lunate within lower end of the cell, two on the 

 disc between the median veinlets, the lower one being largest and oval; sometimes a 

 slender spot also present between the upper median and the radial ; a long brown- 

 aud-white streak between the lower median and submedian vein, the posterior border 

 being broadly glossy cinereous ; a more or less complete submarginal and marginal 

 row of small white spots. Hindwivg with a small violet-white cell spot, a discal 

 series of five or six, sometimes less, small spots, a submarginal and marginal row of 

 Prominent white spots ; some white dots at base of the wing. 



Female. TJpperside somewhat paler. Foreiving with the violet-grey pale apical 

 patch, and both wings with all the markings as in the male, the lower submarginal 

 on the forewing being sometimes large. Underside also somewhat paler. Both wings 

 marked as in the male. Forewing with an elongated violet-white streak between 

 the lower median and submedian vein. Body dark brown ; head, palpi, thorax in 

 front and beneath black, white spotted; legs black, femora beneath whitish; abdomen 

 beneath with white broad bands. 



Expanse, 3 to 3 J inches. 



Habitat. — Burma ; Siam. 



Distribution within Indian Area. — According to Mr. De Niceville (Butt. Ind. 

 i. 85) " it appears to be common in Burma from February to July." Specimens 

 have been examined and verified fi'om Akyab in Arakan, collected in July by Capt. 

 Adamson (Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1882); others from Mandalay from Mr. Radchffein Col. 

 Swinhoe's collection, and from the Karen Hills in Mr. Crowley's collection. It is 

 stated (Butt. Ind. i. 85) to be " common in Rangoon during June, July, and Sep- 

 tember, and probably throughout the year." Mr. 0. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 824) 

 found it in Upper Tenasserim at"Ahsown, Moulmein to Meetan, at Hatsiega, 

 Houngduran, and from Naththoung to Paboga." It was taken " by Capt. Bingham 

 in the Meplay Valley in February, and in the Upper Thoungyeen forests in April " 

 (Butt. Ind. i. 85). It is recorded (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 416) from " Tavoy and 

 adjacent Siam Hills," and Dr. J. Anderson (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 31) found it 

 abundantly in the Mergui Archipelago during the winter. 



Our illustration of this species on Plate 25, fig. 1, is from a Tounghoo male ; 

 fig. la, d, Rangoon male and female; fig. lb from a Karen Hill male variety in the 

 collection of Mr. P. Crowley, and fig. c from a Moulmein female. 



Distribution outside Indian Area. — Mr. E. L. Layard (P. Z. S. 1874, 103) 



