130 LEPIDOPTEBA INDIOA. 



Expanse of wings, $ l-i% to l-/o, ? lx*o *« lyV inches. 



HABiTAT.-^Burma, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Nias. 



Distribution. — The type came from Singapore ; Distant records it from the Malay 

 Peninsula ; Kheil from Nias ; Drucefrom Kina Balu, Borneo ; Doherty from Mergui and 

 Tenasserim, and we have several examples of both sexes from Deli, Sumatra. 



SURENDRA FLORIMEL. 



Plate 669, figs. 2, ^, 2a, $ , 2b, ^ , 2c, ? . 



Surendra florimel, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 424, pi. 23, figa. 17, ^, 4, 9. 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 223 (1890). Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 7. 

 Surendra siimula, de Niccville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. ix. 1895, p. 279, pi. O, fig. 23. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark rich purple-blue, so dark as to obscure the black 

 borders and make them invisible except in certain lights. Foreiving with the costa 

 and outer margin broadly black, the band decreasing in width hindwards on the outer 

 margin until it reaches the hinder angle, where it broadens somewhat ; the blue area 

 angled at the upper median vein, and occupying about half the wing. Ilindwing with 

 the costal and abdominal portions broadly blackish-brown, the latter the paler, the 

 blue area extending from just below the sub-costal to the median vein, leaving the 

 upper part of the cell blackish, a narrow black marginal line, the outer margin with a 

 projection at the end of vein 3 and then straight to the anal angle, but in one example 

 there are very slight projections at the ends of veins 2 and 4 ; no tails. Underside 

 rufous-brown with a purplish tint, varying somewhat in shade of colour in different 

 examples, markings darker brown and somewhat indistinct. Forewwg with a dark 

 shade across the middle of the wing, leaving the costal and apical portions pale, the 

 hinder margin broadly paler still ; a fine line across the middle of the cell, another 

 across the end ; a discal outwardly curved series of conjoined, somewhat lunular and 

 irregularly shaped marks, projecting a little, outwardly in the middle, indications of a 

 series of sub-marginal marks. Ilindwing darker and more evenly coloured, with a 

 brown-edged white dot in the cell, often absent, a medial dark fascia across the wing, 

 outwardly edged by an outwardly curved series of disconnected, white marks, an 

 indistinct discal series of conjoined lunular marks, outwardly marked by a sufi"used 

 brownish shade, a sub-terminal metallic blue patch in interspace 2, sometimes with a 

 l)lack spot in it, indications of a terminal series of brown marks. 



Female. Upperside dull brown, palest in the middle of the disa Underside. 

 Forewing with the dark area confined to the neighbourhood of the median spaces on 

 the disc. Ilindwing with a dark band across the wing from the apex to the hind 

 margin, crossing the end of the cell ; a distinct whitish spot basally between the costal 

 and sub-costal veins, the inner transverse line united, crossing the dark area sub- 



