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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Imago.— Male. Upperside blackish-brown with a slight violet tint. Forewing 
with a somewhat oval white patch outside the cell, varying in size in different 
examples. Hind wing without markings, tails black, tipped with white, outer marginal 
line of both wings finely black. Undersider paler with a stronger violet tint. Fore wing 
with the white patch continued to the hinder margin somewhat constricted at the 
sub-median vein. Hindwing with a black anal spot, another usually (but not always) 
in the first interspace and some obscure blackish spots in the others. Antennse black, 
ringed with white ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings ; no 
sex mark in the male. 
Female. Upperside dull greyish-blue. Forewing with the white patch larger 
than it is in the male, costal black band rather broad, widening gradually from the 
base to the apex, filling up the whole apical space outside the white patch and broad 
down the outer margin to the hinder angle. Ilindwing with the costal space broadly 
blackish, with a small white patch on the middle of the costa, the outer margin with a 
narrow, more or less macular black band, marginal line finely deep black, with an inner 
white thread. Underside as in the male. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ 1 inch. 
Larva.—A single specimen from a larva found feeding in Mussuri on the leaves 
of Coriaria nepalMsis. It is a most curious-looking creature, about half an inch 
long, of a reddish-brown colour, of the usual lycsenid shape, but furnished with eleven 
tentacular processes, two on the third segment, one each on the fourth, seventh, eighth, 
and ninth segments, all dorsal, the fifth has three, two lateral and one dorsal, the 
eleventh has two lateral ones. (Mackinnon and de Niceville.) 
Habitat. —India. 
Distribution. —The type came from Dharmsala, N.W. Himalayas; Mackinnon 
and de Uiceville record it from Mussuri and Sikkim; we have it from the Nilgiris, 
3,500 feet elevation; it is a rare species, though widely distributed. 
INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 
Horaga lefevrei , Sithon lefevrei, Felder, Wien Ent. Mon. vi. p. 291 (1862). Habitat, Philippines. 
Horaga ciniata , Sithon ciniata, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep. p. 35, pi. 14, tigs. 30, 31 (1863). Habitat, 
Celebes. 
Horaga msenala, Sithon mgenala, Hewitson, l.c. p. 7, pi. 3, figs. 85, 86 (1869). H, H. Druce, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 612. Habitat, Borneo. 
Horaga halba, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 460, pi. 44, fig. 23 (1886). Habitat, Malay Peninsula 
Horaga onychina, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, p. 113. Habitat, Java. 
Horaga decolor , Staudinger, l.c. p. 112. Habitat, Philippines. 
Horaga affinis, Staudinger, l.c. p. 113 (1889). H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 611, pi. 34, 
fig. 9, $. Friihstorfer, Berl. Ent, Zeit. 1898, p. 180. Habitat, Borneo, Nias. 
