LAMPIDIN^. 53 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam. 



We have received many examples from the Khasia Hills, 



NIPHANDA MARCIA. 



Plate 651, figs. 4, <J , 4.a, ?, 4b, <J . 



Lijcaena (Niphanda) marcia, Fawcett, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, pt. ii. p. 139, pi. 9, fig. 7. 

 Niphanda marcia, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 370, pi. 20, fig. 146 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside violet, brighter and paler iu colour than cyinhla ; some 

 of the markings of the underside faintly visible through the wings, and all the veins 

 more or less prominent, terminal line of both wings black, and some indistinct sub- 

 terminal blackish spots. Cilia brown at the base, white at the tips, chequered with 

 brown. Underside with the ground colour white, markings chocolate-brown with 

 white edges. Forewing with the basal and costal spaces suffused with pale chocolate- 

 brown ; a dark basal streak, an outwardly oblique broad dark streak, from the hinder 

 margin one-third from the base, formed of conjoined spots, through the outer part of 

 the cell, where there are two smaller spots, the upper one minute, a Ijar at the end of 

 the cell, a discal band composed of five small spots in an outwardly oblique row from 

 near the costa to vein 3, with a broad dark smear outside them, the band completed by 

 two large spots one above the other and somewhat inside, in interspaces 3 and 2. 

 Hindwing entirely suffused with pale chocolate-brown, except for a small space in the 

 middle of the disc, all the markings white-edged, three sub-basal rather large dark 

 spots, the first sub-costal, the next two close together, the lower one a little inwards, 

 in interspaces 3 and 2, a minute dot above them, and a small spot on the abdominal 

 margin, a discal outwardly curved series of spots, two close together from below the 

 costa, then a white patch, outside which are four pale spots in a circle, an outside spot 

 and then an inside spot close to the abdomiaal margin ; both wings with terminal 

 brown line, a sub-terminal series of white spots, with brown spots inside them, the 

 spot in interspace 2 of the fore wing and those in inter.spaces, 2, 3, and 6 of the 

 hindwing and also an anal spot more or less black and larger than the others, the 

 whole series being followed by a series of white lunules. Antennae black ringed with 

 white ; head and body blackish-brown above, white beneath. 



Female. Upperside white, markings brown. Forewing with the base and costal 

 portions suffused with brown, a thin bar at the end of the cell, a discal band, broad 

 from the costa where it is outwardly curved to vein 3, then in a narrow form, inwardly 

 curved to the hinder margin; a narrow white band divided by the veins, nearly 

 obliterated in its upper part by brown suffusion, and followed by a marginal band of 

 brown. Hindwing with the interior portion almost entirely sufi"used with brown, a 

 discal outwardly curved series of five small white spots, a sub-terminal double series of 



