190 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



the wing outside this band is dark blackish-brown, nearly black, but all the inner 

 portion and the hindwing are pale pinkish-brown, a little darker brown occasionally ; on 

 the underside there is a brown shaded streak from the base inwards on the forewing, 

 and a similar streak on the hindwings extending inwards from the middle of the 

 abdominal margin. 



Female, similar to the male. 



Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen above and below brown. 



Expanse of wings, $ $, l-f^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Hong Kong, Ceylon, extending to Java. 



Distribution. — Watson records it from the Chin Hills and Chin Lushai, Elwes 

 from North Assam and the Karen and Naga Hills, Manders from the Shan States ; 

 it is in the B. M. from Hong Kong, Ceylon and Java, and in our collection from the 

 Khasia Hills. 



GERTDUS LONQEANA. 



Plate 613, figs. 2, ^, 2a, ?, 2b, ^, 2c, ? . 



Gerydus longeana, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. ISTat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 141, pi. Z, figs. 15, 16. 

 Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 293 (1907). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, $, 2a, ?, 2b, $, 2c ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale blackish-brown with a slight ochreous tint. 

 Forewing with the space beyond the white discal band black, the band consisting of an 

 oblique rather broad streak across the end of the cell, and two somewhat elongate 

 spots below it, nearer the margin. Hindwing unmarked. Underside of a uniform 

 very pale brownish-grey, tinged with ochreous, markings very obscure, much as in 

 hoisduvali ; the white discal band of the forewing broader throughout and much 

 enlarged hindwards. 



Female, like the male, the discal band very much broader, consisting of four 

 elongated white streaks of uniform size ; on the underside the markings are better 

 defined. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1^ inches. 



Intermediate Form. 

 Male, with the space on forewing beyond the white band black, the band purer 

 white, very broad, evenly curved, the spots closer together and narrowing hindwards, 

 the inner portion of the wing and the entire hindwing pale whitish-grey with a 

 pinkish-ochreous tinge, a short brown streak, immediately above the upper half of the 

 cell, and another in the interspace above vein 2, extending from its origin to the 

 white band ; the hindwing with the costa broadly blackish-brown, unmarked. Under- 



