40 G. F. L. MnYsh^W— Bare species of Bhopahceroiis Lepidoptera. [No. 2, 



Description, (?, upperside velvety blackish brown, paler at the 

 outer margin and glossed with purple about the disc of each wing; fore- 

 wing with a broad whitish purple transverse band suffused with darker 

 purple at the edges and extending from the costa, where it is broadest, 

 outside the cell to the hinder angle where it narrows to a point ; hindiving 

 with the outer margin broadly pale purple extending from the fold above 

 the third median branch to the submedian nervure, the extreme margin 

 and tail being brownish. Underside bright golden brown, deepening out- 

 wards towards a narrow dark brown almost regular line which crosses 

 both wings just at the end of the discoidal cell from the costa of forewing 

 to a little short of the anal angle of hindvving near which this line is 

 abruptly and acutely angled back towards the base. Forewing with three 

 lilac grey bars across the cell, and the transverse dark line outwardly and the 

 costal half of the wing outwardly irregularly suffused with lilac grey. 

 Sindwing with the dark transverse line outwardly and the basal half irregu- 

 larly suffused with lilac grey, and with two moderate sized ocelli, one 

 between the subcostal nervules brown, with a yellowish pupil and yellowish 

 and narrow dark brown rings ; the other between the first and second median 

 nervules dull yellow finely ringed with dark brown and excentrically marked 

 with a brownish spot bearing a yellowish pupil. 



Length of forewing 2 inches, whence expanse = 4*2 inches. 



This species is manifestly very closely allied to the Sumatran 

 Z. amethystus, but both are extremely rare, and in the absence of specimens 

 of the latter, we must retain the Indian species as distinct. 



The specimen was caught between March and May, but the exact 

 date is uncertain, and adds one more to the numerous and valuable discoveries 

 which we owe to Captain Bingham's careful research. 



5. TnATJMANTis LOUISA, Wood-Mason. 



The male of this species was described and figured by Mr. Wood- 

 Mason in the Journ. A. S. B., Vol. XLTII, part II, p. 175 (1878), from 

 two specimens in the Limborg collection, taken in Upper Tenasserim on 

 the Taoo plateau at an elevation of 3,000 to 6,000 feet. Captain C. T. 

 Bingham has recently captured a fine specimen of the female, hitherto 

 undescribed, in the lower Thoungyeen forests which are also in Upper 

 Tenasserim, and not far from the Taoo plateau but at a considerably lower 

 elevation. 



T. louisa $ differs from the figure of the male, in the following 

 particulars. Upperside with the fulvous ground-colour on the hindwing 

 extending completely up to, and embracing the heads of, the hastate 

 border spots, the ground-colour of the outer portion of the wings being 

 not white but pure french grey, the only traces of pure white being on 



