92 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



area darkest and slightly glossed with violaceous-blue, with the small cell spot and 

 the two discal spots of the underside slightly visible, and a more distinct row of 

 very small submarginal and marginal row of brownish-white spots ; sexual mark 

 short, slender, and distinctly blue in some lights. Hlndiving darkest basally, with a 

 submarginal row of small ovate brownish-white spots, and a marginal row of 

 smaller conical spots. Underside paler. Foreiving with a small violet-white costal 

 spot, a cell spot, two discal spots, a larger white oval, lower discal spot, and 

 submai-ginal and marginal row of spots as on upperside. Hindwing with a very 

 small violet-white cell spot, five discal spots, submarginal and marginal spots as 

 above. Body dark brown ; thorax, head, and palpi black, white spotted; legs black, fore 

 femora white beneath ; abdomen beneath with broad white bands. Temale. Upper- 

 side paler. Forewing with a small white costal spot ; the cell and discal spots slightly 

 visible ; a submarginal incomplete row of very small brownish- white spots and a 

 lower marginal row of more defined spots. Hindwing with submarginal and marginal 

 row of ovate brownish- white spots. Underside paler. Both wings marked as upper- 

 side. On the forewing, the costal, cell, and two discal spots are larger, clearly defined 

 and violet- white ; a white streak below the median. Hindwing also with a violet- 

 white small cell spot, and a discal series of six spots. 



Expanse, c? 3|, ? 3f inches. 



Habitat. — Upper Tenasserim. 



Distribution. — Obtained by Mr. 0. Limborg at Hatsiega in Upper Tenasserim. 

 Mr. De Niceville (Butt, of Ind. i. 82) records the capture of specimens, which he 

 refers to this species, by Mr. J. Wood-Mason " at Akyab, in September." Our 

 figure of the female is from an Akyab specimen in Mr. Distant's collection. 



Genus KARADIRA. 



Karadira, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1883, p. 281. 



Euplosa {Sect. B, part), Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 80 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing somewhat elongated and quadrate, costa arched, apex 

 rounded, exterior margin oblique and wavy, posterior angle somewhat pointed, 

 posterior margin very convex in the middle, sexual mark short, clothed with widely 

 separated small narrow slightly bidentate-tipt scales. Hindwing short and 

 broadly oval, exterior margin wavy. 



Differs from typical Grastia in the forewing of the male having the posterior 

 margin very considerably produced into a broad convex lobe, a comparatively 

 broader and shorter cell, the submedian vein slightly recurving and terminating 

 much below the posterior angle, and with a broader medium-sized sexual mark ; 

 hindwing also much more rounded in form. 



