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LEPID OPTEDA INDIG A. 
extends np to the costa a little before the middle. Underside much paler and tinged 
with chocolate colour. Forewing with the discal band consisting of four elongated 
spots in the disc, increasing in size upwards, a black patch just inside them. Hindwing 
with some very obscure annular markings, both wings with minute sub-terminal black 
dots as in the male. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown above, paler 
beneath. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ l T 8 -g- inches. 
Habitat. —Burma. 
Distribution.— Elwes records it from Pegu ; it is in the B. M. from the Shan 
States ; the type came from Tenasserim. 
GERYDUS BIGSII. 
Plate 614, figs. 2, $, 2a, $, 2b, $, 2c, ? . 
Gerydus bigsii, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 206, pi. 22, fig. 12, $ (1884). de Niceville, Butt, of 
India, iii. p. 24 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 43. Elwes, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1892, p. 617. H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 560. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 
Soc. 1897, p. 657. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 295 (1907). 
Gerydus gopara, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 25 (1890); id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, 
p. 208, pi. E, figs. 1, $, 2, $ . 
Imago. —Male. Upperside of a uniform dark blackish-brown. Forewing with 
the apical portion darker black; the white discal streak crossing outside the end of 
the cell, descends hindwards, less obliquely than is usual in the genus, and therefore is 
more in the middle of the wing, it is more like a bar, and is very broad and extends 
from near the costa at its middle to near the hinder margin of the wing, there are no 
other markings on either wings above, but the outer margin of the hindwing is 
distinctly sinuous, wdiich is very unusual in the males of this group. Underside pale 
brownish-grey with a faint pinkish tinge. Forewing with the white band forming a 
large white patch, a blackish suffusion on the wing in the inner portion, the usual 
markings on forewings better defined than in boisduvali, very obscure on the hindwing ; 
a sub-terminal series of black dots. 
Female, like the male. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown above and 
below. 
Expanse of wings, J $ 1^ inches. 
Habitat. —Burma, Malay Peninsula. 
Distribution. —Watson records it from the Chin Hills and Chin Lushai, Elwes 
from the Naga and Karen Hills ; it is in the B. M. from Thyetmyo, the Malay Peninsula 
and Java, and we have it from Celebes. 
