196 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Forewlng witli the outer portion covered with many of these spots of various sizes, the 

 lower discal portions with a few ; cell with three elongated spots crossing it, a post-discal 

 irregular band of detached spots, a sub-terminal lunular line. Hindwing with similar 

 spots and minute dark brown specks ; three basal detached spots in a transverse row, a 

 medial macular band that crosses the cell, a large spot at apex of cell, v/ith a similar 

 spot above touching the costa, and another below it at base of interspace 3, a broad 

 curved macular discal brown band, its upper spot well detached, the others confluent. 



Female. Differs from the male in having a discal oblique band of three spots. 

 Underside with the markings more clearly defined. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 2^-^ inches. 



Habitat. — The Himalayas from Kumaon to Bhutan at low elevations, Assam 

 and the Chittagong hill tracts (Bingham). 



DiSTRiBTJTiois". — Elwes records it from the Naga Hills, and Manders from the 

 Shan States. We have received many examples of both sexes from the Khasia 

 Hills. 



ALLOTINUS SUBVIOLESCENS. 



Plate 616, figs. 1, <J, la, ?, lb, $. 



Allotinus svhvlolescens, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 280, pi. 35, figs. 27, 28 (186.5). Bingham, 



Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 300 (1907). 

 Allotinus alhamah. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 452, pi. 44, fig. 3, $ (1886). de Nice^'ille, Butt, of 



India, iii. p. 30 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing. Upperside brownish-black, a dull violaceous patch 

 consisting of two streaks divided by the vein, filling up the internomedian interspace 

 from near the base, to the broad blackish outer border, a shorter streak fills up the 

 interspace above in a similar manner. Hindwing blackish-brown, a broad medial dull 

 violaceous streak from the base to the disc. Underside pale brownish-grey with a 

 slight ochreous tint, with many transverse darker lines composed of specks, spots, and 

 striae, coalescing in parts. 



Female. Upperside similar to the male, but the violaceous portion much larger, 

 occupying most of the interior portion of the wing, leaving a broad costal and outer 

 band. Underside like the male, but the markings more ochreous and prominent. 

 Antennae, head and body brown above, paler beneath, the palpi nearly white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, J' $ l^\ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Archipelago. 



Distribution. — The type came from Java ; Distant's type from Malayana ; it is in 

 the B. M. from Toungoo, Rangoon, Sumatra, Kina Balu, aud Palawan. The male 

 figure is from Felder's type-specimen from Tring Museum. 



