3G LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



discocellulars, 6 from upper end of cell, 7 from before upper end, 8 absent, 9 from 

 apical half of 7, 10 free, 11 and 12 anastomosed for a part of their length, 12 ends 

 before end of cell. Hindwing with the cell about half the length of the wing, vein 3 

 from a little before lower end of cell, 8 strongly arched, then straight to apex, running 

 very close to the costal margin. Costa slightly concave, apex obtuse, outer margin 

 slightly sinuous, hinder angle somewhat rounded. Antennae about half as long as the 

 costa of forewing, club stout, abrupt, spatulate ; j^'^lpi sub-porrect, with a bristly fringe 

 of hairs in front, third joint acicular, body moderately stout, its genitalia is Plebeid, 

 and in its haiiy eyes, anastomising of veins 11 and 12 and in its general characters it 

 is closely allied to Azanus. 

 Type, jjontis, Elwes. 



ORTHOMIELLA PONTIS. 

 Plate 648, figs. 5, ^ , 5a, ? , 5b, $ . 



GMJades {T) pontis, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 446; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 384, pi. 8, 



fig. 5, $ . 

 Oithomiella poniis, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 126, pi. 26, fig. 177, ^ (1890). AVatson, 



Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 660. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 369, pi. 19, 



fig. 139 (1907). 



Imago. — -Male. Upperside deep purplish-brown, with a lilacine tint in certain 

 lights, terminal line of both wings blackish. Cilia brown alternated with white. 

 Underside grey with a pinkish tinge. Foreiving, a brown bar across the middle of the 

 cell, and another across the end, a discal series of conjoined brown bars, three in a row, 

 from near the costa to vein 4, the fourth a little inwards, the fifth and sixth hindwards 

 from the inner side of the fourth ; the base of the wing irrorated with black scales ; all 

 the bars edged with fine whitish lines. Hindwing with the base and lower half of cell 

 densely irrorated with black scales, with small patches of paler scales, bands brown as 

 on the forewing, but not edged with whitish, a sub-basal band of bars commencing with 

 a large spot near the costa, the rest of the band more or less obliterated by the black 

 scaling ; a bar at the end of the cell, and a discal irregular band of conjoined bars 

 outwardly curved, its lower portion obliterated by the black scaling, both wings with a 

 pale terminal line and a sub-terminal series of angular brown spots, one in each inter- 

 space. AntennfB dark brown, speckled with white ; head and body purplish-brown 

 above, blackish-brown beneath. 



Female. Upperside d;irk brown, the inner portion of the forewing purplish-blue, 

 with a bright blue sheen in certain lights ; the blue colour much more extensive on the 

 hindwing. Underside like the male, but the markings are more pronounced, and the 

 basal black irrorations less extensive. 



Expanse of wings, $ ?, 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, 6,000 feet. North Chin Hills, Upper Burma. 



