128 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



suffusion on its inner side, the third post-medial, but nearer to the outer margin than 

 to the middle, not irregular like the other two, and much angulated and with some 

 brown suffusion inwards ; the two inner lines with some white marks at their upper 

 ends, indications also of a sub-marginal line, and a little whitish, indistinct suffusion 

 often at the anal angle, tail at the end of vein 2, concolorous with the wing, tipped 

 with white, anal lobe produced. Cilia black, tipped with white. 



Female. Upperside violet-brown. Forew'mg with the inconspicuous blackish 

 borders generally broader than in the male, and with the upper disc usually paler 

 than the rest of the wing. Ilindicing uniformly violet-brown, sometimes with some 

 blackish suffusion on the costal and outer marginal spaces, and an additional tail at 

 end of vein 3, also tipped with white, anal lobe usually larger than in the male. 

 Underside as in the male, bat the ground colour is usually paler, the markings more 

 pronounced, and on the hindwiug the middle line is more or less squarely curved 

 inwards to the middle of the abdominal margin. Antennae black, with an orange-red 

 tip ; palpi, head and body black above, brown beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ^ 1^, $ I-^q inches. 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Andamans. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Elwes from the Naga Hills, by Watson from Chin 

 Lushai, by Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussmi, by Manders from the Shan 

 States, by HamjDson from the Nilgiris, by Moore from the Kangra Valley, by Hewitson 

 from Silhet, by Doherty from the Gori and Kali Valleys (2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation), 

 by Hannyngton from Kumaon, and we have many examples in our collection from 

 Sikkim and from the Khasia Hills. 



SURENDRA DISCALIS. 



Plate 668, figs. 4, (J , 4a, ? , 4b, ^ , 4c, ? . 



Surendra discalis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 142 ; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 113, pi. 44, figs. 1, ^ , 



la, ? (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 222 (1890). 

 ■Surendra quercetorum, Bethune-Baker (part), Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 4. 



Imago. — Male. Much smaller than quercetorum, the anal lobe considerably 

 smaller, the upperside darker and brighter, the underside very much paler, quite violet- 

 grey in many examples, the hiudwing with the central transverse line not nearly so 

 irregular, and almost uniformly, outwardly well curved, and outwardly edged throughout 

 with rather prominent white marks, the suffusion inside it, and inside the outer curved 

 Hue orange-brown. 



Female. Upperside uniformly darker than in that sex of quercetorum, with a 

 large pinkish-ochreous patch iu the upper disc, varying somewhat in its shade of 

 colour in some examples, but nearly always more or less well indicated. Underside 



