134 LEPIDOFTERA INDICA. 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Elwes records it from E. Pegu, Watson from Chin Lushai, 

 Manders from the Shan States, Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussuri, de Rhe- 

 Philipe from Lucknow, Betham from the Central Provinces, Davidson and Aitken 

 from Karwar, Aitken and Comber from the Konkan, Hampson from the Nilgiris, 

 Doherty from Kumaon, Aitken from Thana and the Thul Ghat, de Niceville from 

 Bhutan, Sikkim, Mandi, Dinapore, Bholahat, Calcutta, Orissa and Bangalore, and we 

 have taken it at Poona, Khandala, and Bombay. 



IRAOTA ROCHANA. 



Plate 670, figs. 1, <J, la, ?, lb, $. 



Amhlypodia rocliana, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C p. 108 (1829). Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. 



E.I.C. i. p. 44, pi. la, fig. 10, $ (1857). 

 Iraoia rochana, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 43. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 217 



(1890). H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 587. de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. 



Bengal, 1895, p. 463. Bethune- Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 12. 

 Thecla timoleon, Boisduval (nee Stoll), Sp. Gen. i. pi. 22, fig. 4, J (1836). 

 Deudorix timoleon, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 352. 

 Iraota hoswelliana, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 258, pi. 22, fig. 36, J (1885). Staudinger, Es. 



Sohmett. p. 279, pi. 96, ? (1888). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside azure-blue, shining. Foreioing with costal and outer 

 marginal bands broadly black, broadest at the apex, the blue colour diflering much 

 from that colour in timoleon, but somewhat similar in extent, the black marginal baiad 

 extends somewhat more inwards on the hinder margin. Hindwing with the black 

 bands and extent of blue as in timoleon, but wnth two black tails tipped with white, 

 narrower, the outer tail at the end of vein 2 the longer ; the anal lobe smaller, the wing 

 more rounded, the anal angle being not nearly so much produced. Underside with 

 the coloration and markings much as in the Wet-season form of timoleon, but on the 

 hindwing there is a short narrow white streak on the costa at the base, the lower 

 portion of the wing is paler, the silvery spot below the white band is generally replaced 

 by a white thin streak downwards from its middle, the two angulated outwardly curved 

 whitish lines are more in the middle of the wing, and more complete and distinct, the 

 outer margin is scalloped above vein 3, where it is somewhat produced and contains 

 a large black spot. 



Female. Upperside dark golden brown, darkest on the margins, without any 

 Ijlue coloration, the end of vein 3 with a short tail-like projection in addition to the 

 two tails of the male. Underside paler than in the male, all the white markings 

 broader and more prominent. Antennte, head and body as in timoleon. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1-^ to IxV inches. 



