112 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



BINDAHAEA PHOCIDES (Plate 42, Fig. 3, 3a, $ 2)- 

 Hesperia Fhocides, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 282 (1793) 2 ; Donovan, Nat. Rep. ii. pi. 44, f. 1. 

 Myrina Fhocides, Butler, Catal. Fabrician Lep. B. M. p. 183. 



Amhbjpodia Sugriva, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. p. 105, pi. 1, fig. 10, 10a (1829), $. 

 Myrina Sugriva, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 51, pi. la, fig. 12. 



Male. Upperside black : hindwing with tte anal area and tail pale brownist- 

 ochreous, a sliort blue narrow band along the exterior margin, at the lower end of 

 which is a cluster of metallic-green scales ; abdominal margin ochreous-black ; a 

 black-speckled spot on anal lobe. Female olive-brown, in some aspects glossy 

 senescent-brown ; anal area and tail white, a large black spot at outer base of the 

 tail, and a black-speckled spot on anal lobe. Underside. Male brownish-ochreous, 

 merging to ochreous-brown on the apical areas : forewing with two broad 'medial 

 transverse darker brown pale-bordered irregular-margined bands, followed by a 

 submarginal indistinct slender dentated line and a row of outer dots : hindwing with 

 four dark brown pale-bordered basal spots, a discocellular streak, a broad curved 

 discal irregular catenulated band (the upper part of which only is dark brown), a 

 submarginal sinuous line, and a marginal row of indistinct lunular spots ; three anal 

 black spots, the outer lobe spot large, the other two small and speckled with 

 metallic-green scales. Palpi and legs ochreous-white, with black bands above. 

 Female white beneath ; marked as in male. 



Expanse, $ Ith to 1-^, 9 1t% to lyo inch. 



" Kandy and Galle. Male plentiful in the Botanical Gardens at Kandy. DiflBcult 

 to capture, as they settle very high and are rather shy " {Wade). 



Genus SURENDRA. 

 Surendra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 835. 

 Wings short : forewing broad ; costa gently arched, apex acute ; exterior margin 

 erect, slightly concave below the apex, and convex in the middle, posterior margin 

 waved ; costal vein extending to half the wing ; first subcostal emitted beyond one- 

 balf and second at nearly one-half before end of the cell, third from close to the end, 

 bifid, fourth thrown off at beyond one-half and terminating at the apex, fifth from a 

 slight angle at end of the cell ; discocellulars recurved, nearly erect, of equal length, 

 radial from their middle ; the middle median from close to end of the cell, lower at 

 one-third before the end ; submedian nearly straight : hindwing somewhat quadrate ; 

 costa very slightly arched in the middle, apex almost pointed, exterior margin 

 uneven, truncated posteriorly ; male with a single tail from lower median vein, and 

 the female with an additional shorter tail from middle median ; anal lobe large ; 

 costal vein arched at the base; first subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the 



