1124 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



and inner vein, the tuft overlapping a glandular patch of scales ; precostal vein sliglitly 

 curved ; subcostal ending below tlie apex, radial emitted from subcostal branch at 

 some distance from the latter ; cell open ; lower median emitted opposite base of dis- 

 cocellular, upper and middle medians at some considerable distance beyond ; sub- 

 median and inner vein much recurved from the base. Body moderately stout ; palpi 

 rather short, projected forward to level of vertex, compressed laterally, clothed with 

 short appressed hair-scales, end of second joint above more hairy, apical joint 

 conical ; forelegs of male very short, thickly clothed to the tip with short hairs ; 

 forelegs of female laxly scaly, tarsus dilated towards the extremity and slightly 

 ti'uncate at tip, the spines slender and sharp-pointed ; antennge slender, with an 

 elongated slender gradually-formed club ; eyes naked. 

 Type.— P. Franckii. 



PROTHOE ANGELICA (Plate 326, fig. 1, la, b, c, (^ ? ). 



Prothoe Angelica, Butler, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1885, pp. 53, 54. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. 



p. 295, front plate, fig. 120, S (18SG). 

 ProtJwe uniformis, Butler, I.e. pp. 53, 54 (1885). 

 Prothoe Franckii (part), Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 80. Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 832. Elwes, 



P.Z.S. 1891, p. 284. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Both wings dark blue-black, the basal area palest 

 and thickly irrorated with light blue scales. Foreunng with a narrow black slightly 

 angulated streak crossing end of the cell but not quite touching the median vein ; a 

 broad discal outwardly-oblique pale blue band (of a lilacine or cobalt tint in certain 

 lights) extending from the costa to the posterior angle, and traversed through its 

 middle area by two more or less indistinctly-defined white costal streaks and a row 

 of five lower obliquely-dentiform decreasing irrorated white streaks, one in each 

 interspace from lower subcostal to lower median, the blue band being variable in 

 width, in the male from four-tenths to five-tenths of an inch, and it generally 

 includes the black cell-s1,reak ; the inner edge of the band is, generally, regular and 

 speckled, its outer edge being more defined and irregular ; beyond is an apical series 

 of five superposed rounded lilacine-white spots, of which the lower first and third 

 are very small and generally indistinct or obsolete. Hlndwing with two elongated 

 lilacine-white spots at the extreme apical margin divided by the upper submarginal 

 veinlet ; a slender lilacine-white interrupted wavy marginal line extending from anal 

 angle to near the outer caudal angle ; the glandular tuft of hairs reddish-ochreous. 

 Underside pale olivescent-buff or brownish-ochreous, with dark brown markings. 

 Forewing with a broad dark brown posterior marginal area, a narrow outer marginal 

 middle line, a looped-spot at base of the cell, two superposed annular spots in the 

 middle and a W-shaped mark near its end continued to the costa, the discocellulars 



