238 LEPIBOPTERA INDIC'A. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 

 Taralca malianetra, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 129. Habitat, Malay Eeninsula. 



Genus CASTALIUS. 



Canialius, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 70 (1816). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 82 (1881). Distant, 

 Rhop. Malayana, p. 214 (1884). de NiceviUe, Butt, of India, iii. p. 195 (1890). Bingham, 

 Fauna of Brit. India, Butt, ii p. 421 (1907). 



Forewing triangular, costa arched, hinder angle angulated, outer margin rounded, 

 cell more than half the length of the wing, vein 7 before upper end of the cell, 8 absent, 

 9 from middle of 7, 10 emitted closer to base of 11 than to base of 7, 11 anastomosing 

 with 12, sometimes only just touching it, 12 ends on costa before Tipper end of cell. 

 Ilindwing almost evenly rounded, anal angle rather sharp, cell less than half the length 

 of wing ; veins 3 and 4 from lower angle of the cell, 7 from a little before upper angle, 

 8 arched, terminating at the apex of the wing. Antennse less than half the length of 

 the costa of forewing, club long, gradual, blunt at the end ; palpi sub-porrect, densely 

 clothed in front, third joint long, body slender, a slender tail to hind wing ; eyes naked. 



Type, C. rosimon, Fabricius. 



CASTALIUS ANANDA. 

 Plate 629, figs. 3, (J , 3a, ? , 3b, <J (imago), 3c (larva and pupa). 

 Caaial'ms anancla, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 75, pi. 1, figs. 11, <^ , 11a, 9. 

 Hampson, id. 1888, p. 357. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 198 (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 299. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 379, 

 pi. 4, fig. 3, 3a (larva and pupa). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 662. Bingham, 

 Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 423 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purple, with narrow, uniform, black, marginal 

 borders to both wings ; the spots of the underside generally showing through the 

 wings. Underside dull white, markings black. Foreiving with a band from the base 

 to the costa before the middle ; a bar from the middle of the costa to the middle of the 

 wing; on its inner side there is another bar extending hindwards to vein 1, and 

 sometimes touches the second bar, sometimes does not ; a post-discal macular band, 

 with the spots sometimes joined together, sometimes more or less well separated. 

 Hindiving with basal and sub- basal transverse bands, sometimes broken ; a medial 

 band usually of two pieces ; both wings with sub-terminal and anticiliary uniform 

 rows of small sjDots. Antennte black, ringed with white ; head and body black above, 

 white beneath. 



Female, like the male. Upperside with the ground colour usually very much 

 paler ; the markings of the underside showing conspicuously through the wings. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 inch. 



