22 LEPIDOPTERA IXDIGA. 



"Madras, very common, from March to August" (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1890, 267), also 

 in " Mysore iu November " (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1890, 7). Mr. H. S. Ferguson 

 found it "not commou in Travaucore, iu the Hills at 1,000 to 4,000 feet " {id. I.e. 

 1891, 443). 



In Ceylou, Mr. F. M. Mackwood records it as " a low couutr}- butterfly, with a 

 slow flight, and seldom seen away from low brushwood, its favourite haunt." Capt. 

 Wade found it " very common at Kandy, and. easy to capture." Capt. Hutchison 

 took it at Matale, and in Colombo from June to December ; flight slow, scarcely 

 rising above the ground " (Lep. Ceylou, i. 118). Dr. N. Manders found it " widely 

 distributed over Ceylon, and not uncommon in low country jungles " (J. As. Soc. 

 Beng. 1899, 210). 



In Burma, Col. C. H. E. Adamson records it as " very common in shady places 

 throughout the country" (List Burm. Butt. 1897,40). Capt. B. Y. Watson took it 

 at " Pauk in November, and at Tilinfrora November to May " (J. Bombay N. H. S. 

 1891,51). Capt. Watson also found, it " common in the Upper Chiudwiu District, 

 in the dry season, between January and June" {id. I.e. 1897, 669). Dr. J. Anderson 

 took it in Mergui, Tenasserim, in November, and on Elphinstone Island in March " 

 (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 45). 



LEPTOSIA NICOBARICA. 



NycMtona Xiphia, var. Nicoharica, Doherty, Journ. A^. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 262. 



Male. Uppersidc. Forewing with the apical marginal black band comparatively 

 narrower than in Ceylon, Indian, or Burmese specimens of Xi])hia, the discal 

 oblique spot being much smaller, transversely narrower, and less prominent. 

 Underside. Forewing with the costal and apical flecks and discal spot indistinctly 

 defined. Eindwing with the strig^ much less numerous and indistinctly defined. 



Expanse, 1-^q to 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — Great and Little Nicobar Island. 



Sub-family COLIINiE. 



Ooliance, Swainson, Cabinet Cyclo. p. 87 (1840). 



Rhodoceridm, Dupoucbe), Catal. Meth. Lep. Eur. p. 26 (1844). JiUt. Brit. Butt. pp. 86, 251 (1896). 



JRhodoceridi, Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 2 (1850). ScuJder, Butt. U. S. ii. p. 1,040 (1889). 



Pieridi (pt.), Stephens, List Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 3 (1850). Stainton, Manual Brit. Lep. p. 15 (1857). 



Bryadm, Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 66 (1886). 



Gallidryinoi, Kirbj, Allen's Nat. Libr. Butt. ii. p. 207 (1896). 



Anlhocharinm (pt.), Kirby, I.e. p. 185. 



Eurymini (pt.), Grote, Prou. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1900, p. 46. 



Frugacia et Fidelia (pt.), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. pp. 96, 98 (1816). 



