numerous examples were receis^ed by him from liis native collectors " (Ann. N. H. 

 1899, 107). 



DERCAS DOUBLEDATI. 



Plate 562, fig. 1, la, b, c cj, d, e ? . 



Dercas Verhuellii, Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 71, pi. 8, fig. 3 S (1817) ; id. List Lep. Bi-it. Mas. 



App. p. 10 (1848). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. L Company i. p. 59 (1857). Butler, Cist. Ent.i. 



p. 45 (1870). Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 414. de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, p. 167. 



Swinhoe, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 308. Watson, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soo. 1897, p. 671. 



Adamson, List Burm. Butt. p. 42 (1897). de Niceville, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1898, p. 480 ; id. Journ. 



Bombay N. H. Soc. 1899, p. 334. 

 Rhodoeera Lycorias (pt.), Doubleday, Gray's Zool. Misc. pp. 77, 78, fig. i (1842). — nee. S ■ 



Male. Upperside deep sulphur-yellow. Forewing with a large somewhat 

 quadrate vinaceous-black apical patch, which continues narrowly and deoreasingly 

 sinuously hindward, from above lower radial veinlet to below the lower median; the 

 patch slightly varies in size, and its inner anterior side is slightly outwardly-oblique 

 and uneven, its upper angle extending inward very slenderly aud interruptedly along 

 the costal edge to tip of the costal vein, and its entire inner edge from the costa 

 hindward is bordered by a narrow pale ochreous-red band ; a similar-coloured narrow 

 transverse discal fascia also extends from the inner lower angle of the black patch 

 obliquely to the submedian vein ; a pale ochreous-red recurved streak also borders 

 the discocellulars ; cilia anteriorly ochreous-red. Eiridwbig with a black dot at end of 

 each vein. Underside paler yellow. Forewing with markings, as on upperside, 

 purplish-red, the apical portion of outer band washed with dark purple-grey and 

 crossed by a glossy violet oblique streak, the whole traversed by darker slender 

 strigge ; centre of the discocellular streak glossy violet and its base dark purple, the 

 transverse discal fascia pale and inwardly edged with dark purple-grey. Hinclwing 

 with a black dot at end of the veins, a slightly-defined transverse discal purple-red 

 fascia extending straight from the costal vein to middle median and then bent inward 

 to lower median, its inner edge being more distinct ; a discocellular similar coloured 

 trilobed mark with glossy violet centre. 



Female. Upperside pale olivescent yellowish-white. Forewing with the apical 

 patch and marginal band blacker, the patch somewhat longitudinally narrower and 

 its lower inner angle prolonged inward, the ochreous inner border absent, and the 

 discal fascia obsolescent. Eindwing with a black dot at end of the veins. Underside 

 very pale sulphur-yellow, the markings as in male ; the apical band of forewing 

 paler. 



Expanse, S 2^ to 2f, ? 2f to 3 inches. 



