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Described from five males and one female, all received from Mr. H. 

 Fruhstorfer. I have figured for comparison the females of E. lalsidls 

 and E. lais on pi. Y, figs. 7 and 8 respectively. 

 Subfamily AMATHUSHNiE. 



fi. DiSCOPHOKA DEO, U. Sp., pi. Y, fig. 10, $, 



Habitat : North Shan States, Upper Burma. 



Expanse : $,c>'b\ 9> 4*0 and 4'2 inches. 



Description ; Male. Uppeeside, loth ivings deep indigo-blue. 

 Forcioing with a broad curved disonl orange band, of nearly equal width 

 throughout, its edges rather irregular, commencing on the costa broadly, 

 and ending on the first median nervule, not reaching the outer margin, 

 broken posteriorly by a spot of the ground-colour which reaches from 

 the first median nervule to the middle of that interspace; the orange 

 band is continued beyond the first median nervule to the middle of the 

 submedian interspace by an obscure orange spot ; the costa is narrowly 

 orange for some distance on either side of the discal band ; the outer 

 margin is also very narrowl}^ orange. Hindioing with the usual velvety 

 rounded deep black sexual patch in the middle of the wing ; a series of 

 ouier-discal most obscure pale spots between the veins ; the outer margin 

 narrowly orange. Underside, both unngs deep ochreous, spotted, streak- 

 ed and mottled with black as in the Indian form of D. celiyide, Stoll 

 {D. contlnentalis, Staudinger). Hindwing with two small and obscure 

 ocelli. Female. Indistinguishable on both surfaces from the same sex 

 of D. continentalis from North-east India. 



This species is based on the male sex alone, and is the only species of 

 the genus hitherto described with a broad discal orange band on the 

 upperside of the forewiug in that sex. In the D. celinrie group the 

 females possess a similar though broader band. The female of I), deo 

 is quite indistinguishable from the same sex of D. continentalis. It is 

 possible that D. deo is the dry-season form of the Upper Burmese race 

 of the lust-named species ; bnt in the region where J9. deo was obtained 

 no collections have been made in the rainy season. 



Described from one male taken in January and two females in March 

 at Hsipaw, North Shan States, by Major F. B. Longe, R. B., to whom 

 I am indebted for the gift of the specimens. In the collection of 

 the late Captain E, Y. Watson are other examples from the same 

 region. 

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