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Show 1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 397 Underside as in C. asela, but paler; coloration duller and less reddish, and without the small brown patch at the hinder angle. Female. Dark greenish grey, outer border dark chocolate-grey : fore wings with the cell-markings as in C. erota female; a central brown line followed by a broad white band divided by the veins, and which is narrowest on the hinder margin, where the outer half of the band is greenish, and it expands upwards to the costa to within half an inch of the apex, a suffused black spot on the lower radial interspace, a dentated black line running through tbe band near its outer margin ; a white subapical spot, and two very slight, sinuous, black, submarginal lines, very nearly straight and not together as is usual in G. erota and C. asela. Hind wing with a central faint brown line in continuation of the one on the fore wing, followed by a broad band, also in continuation of the band on the fore wing ; but this band, instead of being white, is greenish grey, only slightly paler than the coloration of the basal half, and is quite as opaque as the rest of the wing, instead of being semihyaline as is the case in the allied species; there are also the two usual discal ocelli and two submarginal black lines. Underside as in C. erota female, but the band on the hind wing instead of being white is greyish ochreous, and very slightly paler than the coloration of the outer border. Expanse of wings, o* 3 ^ , $ 4y^ inches. Hab. Nilgiri Hills, two pairs, received from Mr. Hampson ; North Kanara, two pairs, received from Mr. Wise; also recorded from Wynaad and Travancore in Marshall and de Niceville's * Butterflies of India,' vol. ii. p. 43. LYC^ENIDHE. C H R Y S O P H A N U S SUSANUS, n. sp. Allied to C. phoenicurus, Lederer. Above smoky brown, with the copper colour showing through : fore wings paler than the hind wings, and of a more copper hue, both wings darker towards the base; the few markings in the wings above caused by the markings below showing through the wing; fore wings with three spots in the cell in a line, one being at each end and one in the middle ; costal margin and hinder margin deeper brown, and a band of the same colour on the outer margin. Hind wing with a faint submarginal band of reddish, clearer towards the anal angle ; tail as in C. phlceas, but long and produced like a hair streak. Head white, with a brown centre; collar white; eyes and body brown ; antennae brown, with white bands. Underside coloured and marked somewhat as in G. pavana, all the spots and lines black surrounded with whitish : fore wing pale copper-yellow, fading to whitish at the base, three spots in a line in the cell, one in the interspace below, just underneath the centre cell-spot ; marginal line black, a submarginal macular band with a thinner macular line between, but not reaching the hinder margin, |