78 L. de Niceville — On new and little-known Ilhopalocera. [Nos. 2 4 



which differs from the other specimens in the ground-colour of the under- 

 side heing much darker and of a cupreous purple shade. Female. Up- 

 PERSIDE glossy fuliginous, paler on the disc of the forewing. Hindwing 

 with a conspicuous black spot on the margin between the first and second 

 median nervules, marked anteriorly with scattered white scales, which also 

 appear decreasingly in the two next interspaces beyond and in the one 

 before that containing the black spot, a fine marginal white line not reach- 

 ing the outer angle, then a black line, the cilia white between the tail and 

 the discoidal nervule, the anal lobe with an ochreous and metallic green 

 spot, tail black with a white tip. Underside agreeing in the ground- 

 colour with the N-W. Himalayan specimens. 



The single female specimen described is in Mr. Otto Moller's collec- 

 tion, and was taken at a low elevation in Sikkim in October. 



18. Hypolyc^na chandeana. (Plate IX, fig. 1, ? .) 



E. chandrana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1882, p. 249, pi. xi, figs. 2, 

 2a, male. 



Hab. Lahul ; Kulu Yalley. 



Expanse : ? , 115 inches. 



Description : Female. Upperside dull uniform fuliginous, the 

 anal lobe (as in the male) black with an ochreous and metallic green spot. 

 Underside paler than in the male, being almost pure white, the markings 

 similar but also paler and more diffused. 



This species (of which there are two males and one female in the In- 

 dian Museum, Calcutta, all collected by Mr. A. Graham Young in the Kulu 

 valley) is very near to the Javan Thecla maliha, Horsfield (Cat. Lep. E. I, 

 Co., p. 90, no. 22, 1829), and the male has similar secondary sexual charac- 

 ters as H. nasaka. 



19. NiLASERA? ASOKA, n. sp. (Plate IX, fig. 6, $ ; Qa, ^.) 



Expanse: ^,1*75; $,18 inches. 



Hab. Sikkim. 



Description. Upperside dark glossy purple, the costa and outer 

 margin of the forewing narrowly black, the inner' and outer margins of 

 the hindiving more widely black ; tail long, narrow, black with a white tip. 

 Underside, forewing with a pale line across the middle of the cell (some- 

 times absent), a spot near the end of the cell variable in size and shape, 

 a quadrate spot from one-fifth of the first median nervule to the inner 

 margin, a chain of square spots divided only by the nervules beyond the 

 cell from the costa to the first median nervule, the third lower spot being 

 posteriorly lengthened towards the outer margin, the two following it rect- 

 angular, thus giving the chain a broken appearance at the third median 



