SINTHUSA. 



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*' Paljn porrect, sccoud joint long ; third joint short, slender, pointed. 

 Antennce with a large thick-pointed club. 

 Tj-pe aS. nrtSrtA-flr, Horsfield." (Moore, I. c.) 



Sinthusa chandrana, 



Hypohjmna chandrana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1882, p. 249, pi. xi. figs. %,2a,S; 



de Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. Hi. pt. 2, p. 78, pi. ix. fig. 1, ? (1883). 

 Smthusa chandrana, de Niceville, Bntt. Ind. iii. p. 486 (1890). 

 Thecla pratti. Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1889, p. 110, pi. vii. fig. 4. 



" Allied to U. nusaha. Male. Upperside violet-brown ; foro wing with the lower basal and 

 discal area dull violet-blue, and the medial area of hind wing purplish violet-blue ; marginal 

 line and anal lobe black. Cilia whitish. Underside olive-grey ; fore wing with a broad 

 discocellular slender black-lined white-bordered streak, a similar broken discal band, and a 

 similar marginal narrower lunular band ; hind wing with a similar discocellular streak, a 

 discal band, which is broken beyond the cell and bent upwards above anal angle, and a 

 marginal dentated band ending in a large red spot and anal lobe and an intervening streak, 

 the spot and anal lobe black-centred, the streak with metallic-green borders; a white- 

 bordered black spot on costa near the base, another at end of tlie cell, and a less distinct spot 

 above anal angle. 



" Expanse 1^ inch."' {Moore, 1. c.) 



Thecla pratti. Leech. — Male. Primaries black, with violet reflections over the discal area. Second- 

 aries black, with the exception of a violet suffusion, bounded by two imaginary lines drawn 

 from the base of wing, and terminating respectively at the anal angle and the extremity of 

 the first subcostal uervule. Tails black tipped with white; anal lunule red. Fringes of all 

 the wings pale, but becoming darker towards the apex of primaries. 



Female. Uniformly smoky black. Anal lunule reddish orange, bordered on its inner margin by a 

 few bluish scales. Fringes of all the wings white, merging into black at the apex of primaries. 



Underside : all the wings whitish grey. Primaries with a short darker transverse bar at the end 

 of discal cell, beyond which is a darker broken band running from the costa towards the 

 inner margin. Secondaries with two small dark spots near the base of wing, and a short 

 darkish discal bar ; beyond this is an irregular arrangement of darkish markings. Above the 

 tail is a small black spot surrounded with yellow, a slender streak of which colour runs 

 parallel with the hind margin to the black anal lunule, and then, turning at a right angle, 

 traverses a third of the abdominal fold. 



Expanse 32 millim. 



This species is variable on the underside both in shade of colour and in 

 the intensity of the markings. In these respects four of the six specimens I 

 received from Kiukiang differ somewhat from the examples described above. 

 The anal lunule on upper surface of secondaries is also subject to variation, 

 as in one example it is pale yellow, and in another bluish. 



I took a few specimens of this insect at Foochau in April, 1886, 



