SINTHUSA. 395 
" Pal2n porrect, second joint long ; third joint short, slender, pointed. 
" Antemice with a large thick-pointed club. 
" Type S. nasaka, Horsfield." {Moore, I. c.) 
Sinthusa cliandrana, 
Hypolycana cliandrana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loncl. 1882, p. 249, pi. xi. figs. 2, 2 a, c?; 
de Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. lii. pt. 2, p. 78, pi. ix. fig. 1, ? (1883). 
Sinthusa chandrana, de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 486 (1890). 
Thecla pratti, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889, p. 110, pi. vii. fig. 4. 
"Allied to H. nasal-a. Male. TJpperside violet-brown; fore 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 the cell, and a less distinct spot 
above anal angle. 
" Expanse Ig 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 nervule. 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 botli in shade of colour and in 
the intensity of the markings. In these respects four of the six specimens I 
received from Kiukiang diifer 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. 
