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Show 1887.] LITTLE-KNOWN BUTTERFLIES FROM INDIA. 457 cell and into the upper portion of the second median interspace ; the anal lobe and short tail beyond it deep ferruginous; the long tail becoming white towards its termination, pure white at its tip ; an obscure round black spot between the bases of the two tails. U N D E R S I D E : both wings umber-brown, Fore wing with a darker brown pair of lines across the middle of the discoidal cell, another pair enclosing the discocellular nervules, a discal irregular fascia from the costa to the first median nervule, very broad and dark posteriorly, a submarginal series of dark dots between the veins, the inner margin very broadly pale fuscous without markings. Hind wing more or less covered with fuscous, dark brown, and umber fasciae and spots, the most conspicuous of which are two black spots in the subcostal interspace, a ring-spot at the middle, and an oblong one at the end of the cell, a very dark oblique band from the middle of the abdominal margin to the middle of the wing, a discal irregular fascia recurved upwards to the abdominal margin, and a marginal dark fascia more or less sprinkled with whitish scales towards the anal angle.-FEMALE. U P P E R S I D E : fore wing with the purple area in the male replaced by a smaller pale blue patch, leaving the apical half of the wing and the outer margin at the anal angle black, a diffused white spot at the end of the cell and another beyond it divided by the second median nervule into two portions. Hind wing also pale blue, all except the costa widely and the outer margin decreas-ingly, which are black. U N D E R S I D E : both wings paler than in the male, but similarly marked. Cilia pale ferruginous throughout. There are single males of this very beautiful species in the collections of Major Marshall and Messrs. Otto Moller and A. V. Knyvett, and a single female in that of Mr. Moller, all of them taken in Sikkim, Mr. Moller's specimens in June. It is quite unlike any species known to me. TICHERRA, nov. gen. Closely allied to Cheritra, Moore, but differs in the male in the absence of the secondary sexual characters on the costal margin of the hind wing on the upperside ; the fourth subcostal nervule of the fore wing springing from the third much nearer its apex, consequently being shorter ; the cell of the hind wing longer, the discocellular nervules being much more awkwardly oblique. Type Ticherra acte, Moore. TICHERRA ACTE. (Plate XL. fig. 5, 3 •) Myrina acte, Moore, Horsfield & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. vol. i. p. 47. n. 77, female (1857); id. Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep., Lycanida, p. 30. n. 10, pl. xii. figs. 8, 9, male, wet-season form (1863). Dry-season form. MALE and FEMALE. UNDERSIDE : both wings differ from the typical rainy-season form of the species in the ground-colour being cinnamon-brown instead of rich ochreous-orange; the markings in |