LEPIPOPTEBA INPICA. 
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first composed of two conjoined spots from the costa, the lower inner end touching the 
upper outer end of the discoidal bar, the next piece of two conjoined spots outwardly 
curved, the upper inner end touching the lower outer end of the spots above; the third 
piece composed of two conjoined spots, the upper ends touching the lower ends of the 
spots above them and of the discoidal bar, the last piece in a very acute angle to the 
abdominal margin, with a spot on the margin above it; both wings with a sub-marginal 
series of angular lunules, with a series of minute lunular marks between it and the 
margin on the hindwing, a small anal black spot, a large one in the first interspace, 
capped with orange, with a white edge on its outer side and a very small dark spot 
ringed with white in the interspace between the two black spots. 
Female. Upperside blackish-brown. Forewing with the central part pale. 
Hindwing with a black outer marginal line and an inner white threadanal lobe with 
an orange spot in it. Underside paler than the male, markings similar. Antennae 
black, ringed with white; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings; 
eyes ringed with white. 
Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 to 1 ^ inches. 
Habitat.— Himalayas, Burma, Sikkim, Assam, China. 
Distribution. —Recorded by de Niceville from Dehra Dhun, Sikkim and Tsenbo, 
Upper Burma, by Elwes from the Karen Hills, by Mackinnon and de Niceville from 
Mussuri; we have both sexes from the Khasia Hills; it is in the B. M. also from 
Kangra ; the type of pratti is in the B. M. from Foochow, and also examples from 
Kiukiang in China. 
SINTHUSA AMBA. 
Plate 708, figs. 3, <£, 3a, $ , 3b, $ . 
Hypolycsena amba, Kirby, in Hewitson’s Ill. Diurn. Lep. Suppl. p. 32, pi. 5b, figs. 44, 46, £ ; 45, $ 
(1878). 
Sintliusa amba , Distant, Rliop. Malayana, p. 461, pi. 44, figs. 12, (£,19, ? (1886). Doherty, Journ. 
As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 427. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 485 (1890). Elwes, Proc, 
Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 644. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside purple-brown. Forewing flushed with purple in the 
middle. Hindwing of a brighter purple, the costal space and abdominal fold pale 
brown, the purple of the wing is edged with black towards the costa, and hindwards it 
extends in a narrow detached streak just outside the anal spot, edged on both sides 
with black ; anal lobe black, with some blue scales on it, and a small orange spot on 
its inner side. Cilia and tails black, the latter tipped with white. Underside grey 
with a bluish tint, shading darker towards the margins; markings ochreous-grey. 
Forewing with a double line at the end of the cell, a post-medial, almost straight band 
of oval marks, with orange centres. Hindwing with a double line at the end of the 
