118 LEPJDOPTERA INDICA. 



The illustrations of this species on our Plate 42, figs. 1, la, are of the male 

 and female type specimens of P. Klugii, and fig. lb, of the female type of Mr. 

 Butler's G'rantii. 



Distribution. — According to Mr. De Niceville (Butt. India, i. 65), " Mr. Wood- 

 Mason met with this species commonly in Cachar from April to June, and Mr. A. 0. 

 Hume took it in the eastern hills of Manipur in May." 



Habits, &c. — In his " Notes on the Danain^ of Burma," published at New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne in 1889, Major C. H. E. Adamson, p. 9, in referring to what he 

 there names ' E. Klugii ' — [but the correctness of the identification of his specimens 

 with that species, however, being very doubtful] — says, " This is a most variable 

 insect. I have found it in Akyab, Moulmein, and Bhamo, but most commonly at the 

 latter place, where it aff'ects during the months of January and February the sunny 

 sandy beds of streams, settling close to the margin of the water, apparently to imbibe 

 the moisture. It is a common insect, and may be found in suitable localities nearly 

 all the year round. During the rainy season it is found in open places and paths 

 through the jungles. ... In Akyab both males and females appear to commence 

 flying in March, and during April and May they are most numerous and in freshest 

 condition. Many fresh specimens are, however, to be taken up to February. In 

 April, May, and June, these insects are generally found in forest, while in November, 

 December, January, and February, they frequent the moist beds of rivers, alighting 

 on sand, mud, or pebbles close to the edge of the water." 



This species, apparently, is a variable one, and the following forms. A, B, C, D, 

 appear to be varieties of the same. 



Variety A. Pademma Augusta (Plate 42, fig 2, 2a, (J ? ). 



Pademma Augusta, Moorej Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883^ p. 306, ^ . 

 Pademma Dharma, Moore, id. p. 306, pi. 32, fig. 2, ? . 



Imago. — Male. Forewing. Upperside darker blackish-brown than in typical P. 

 Klugii, and of a more brilliant glossy-blue ; with a bluish-white spot above end of the 

 cell, a similar mark at lower end of the cell, two very slender streaks beyond, a spot 

 between the middle and lower median veinlets ; sexual mark pale blue, clothed with 

 widely-separated rather broad tridentate and quadridentate-tipt scales ; submarginal 

 row of spots smaller, marginal row minute and obsolete at upper end. Hindwing with 

 a broad chestnut-brown abdominal area ; both marginal series of spots obsolescent. 



Female. Foreioing violet-brown, glossed throughout with violet-blue ; with a 

 bluish-white costal spot above end of the cell, a very slight lower discal streak beyond 

 the cell, and five upper submarginal spots, of which the three lowest are much elon- 

 gated and clavate ; a distinct white spot above the lower median veinlet, and a bluish 

 streak above the submedian vein. Hindwing brown ; with three small upper sub- 

 marginal pure white spots, the others pale brown. 



Expanse, c? SJ, ? 3| inches. 



