206 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Distribution.— Types. N. Chin Hills in B. M., a male from Beeling, Tenasserim, 

 and both sexes from Tilin Yaw. It is allied to L. musina, Snellen, from Java and 

 Sumatra, but is much smaller and of an entirely diflPerent colour; there are five 

 examples of typical musina from Sumatra in the B. M. which are identical with Snellen's 

 type male, kindly lent me ; de NiceVille wrongly identified musina in Journ. Bo. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 275, pi. 0, fig. 19 ; he was not sure of his identification, and on the 

 following page suggested caudales as the name for his insect. 



SECTION II.— LYCiENOPSiNJi. 



Dorsal armature in two lateral portions, the actual dorsum being merely part of 

 the chitinous ring of the ninth abdominal segment with no armature ; the ventral, 

 soft (that is unarmed with spicules or teeth), is nearly or quite obsolete (Chapman). 



LYC^NOPSIS OREANA, nov. 

 Plate 619, figs. 4, <? , 4a, <?. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside lilaeine grey with a very strong violet flush, resem- 

 bling L. areas, Leech, from Central China, and to which it is closely allied, the genitalia 

 being similar (teste Chapman), but it diS'ers from oreas on the upperside in the absence 

 of the black costal broad area on the hindwing, having merely a thin black costal line 

 in the forewing, and a very narrow and uniform outer marginal black band ; on the 

 hindwing there is no terminal band, merely a black terminal line ; the cilia also is 

 diff'erent, in oreas it is pure clear white, the forewing with black spots at the vein ends ; 

 in this form the cilia of the hindwing is intersected by a distinct basal grey line. 

 Underside. Forewing with a grey line at the end of the cell ; a post-discal Hnear row 

 of four grey spots, a fifth spot of this series sub-costal and well inwards ; a sub-terminal 

 series of pale grey lunules ; some spots close to the marginal line, which is black. 

 Hindwing distinctly different from the markings in oreas, the same blue scales at the 

 base, a dot near the costal fourth, another below it, the outer marginal markings as on 

 the forewing, but the discal series of spots are quite differently placed to those in oreas, 

 being nearer the margin, consisting of five in almost a line ; between the first two from 

 the base there is one nearer the margin, and the series is completed by a spot well 

 inwards, followed by a dot on the costa a little forward. 



Expanse of wings, i 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — Khasia Hills (Elwes), two examples. 



