250 
LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 
id. 1891, p. 179. Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 381. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. 
India, Butt. ii. p. 417, pi. 20, fig. 151, $ (1907). 
Lycsena psittacus, Allard, Ann. Soc. Fr. 1867, p. 313. 
Lycsena nara, Kollar, Hugels Kaschmir, iv. p. 421 (1848). 
Tarucus nara, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 606, and 1886, p. 366. Butler, An n. Mag. Hat. Hist. 
1888, p. 147. Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 245. Swinhoe, id. 1884, p. 506, and 1885, 
p. 134, and 1886, p. 427. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 190 (1890). 
Tarucus alteratus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 245, pi. 12, fig. 4, 4a, $. de Niceville, l.c. p. 192 
(1890). 
Tarucus calinara, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 185, and 1888, p. 147. de Niceville, l.c. 
p. 191 (1890). 
Tarucus extricatus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 366, pi. 35, fig. 2, $. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 1888, p. 147. de Niceville, l.c. p. 192 (1890). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, la, lb, £). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside pale greyish-purple, a mauve colour; the markings of 
the underside showing through the wings; outer marginal lines thickly black, with the 
black colour running inwards shortly on the veins, some black anticiliary spots on the 
hindwing ; cilia of both wings white, with a black basal band. Underside greyish- 
white, nearly white; markings black. Forewing with a streak from the costa a little 
before the middle to the hinder margin, near the base and continued across the base of 
the hindwing; a somewhat oblique and rather sinuous transverse streak a little before 
the middle and not reaching the costa; a streak from near the costa, close to the other 
streak, runs obliquely outwards to the hinder marginal fourth, and is disconnected in 
its middle ; three spots in a triangle in the upper disc; a post-discal thin band, 
which curves inwards below the costa; a sub-terminal thinner band, both more 
or less divided by the veins and a thick marginal line. Hinclwing with a sub-basal 
oblique band not reaching the costa, followed by three bands of disconnected 
short streaks, a post-discal band like that on the forewing, a sub-terminal series 
of spots shining with blue metallic scales and a terminal line ; tails black, tipped 
with white. 
Female. Upperside rather duller in colour, the markings of the underside more 
plainly visible than they are in the male. Forewing with some white in the upper 
disc ; a brown spot at the end of the cell, a discal band of brown spots, followed by a 
brownish complete band, a sub-terminal brown band and a black marginal line. 
Hindwing with ante-medial, medial and post-medial brownish bands, a sub-terminal 
series of white lunular marks on a brownish ground, a black terminal line, and between 
them a series of black spots, increasing in size hindwards, and a white anticiliary row of 
thin lunules. Underside as in the male. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ 1 T 7 ¥ inches. 
