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but broad and more defined exteriorly, and is brighter on the upper bar to the costa- 
edge. Hindwing with two, or sometimes three, posterior submarginal prominent 
minute black-edged ochreous white dots. Underside with the ground-colour either 
purpurescent-cinereous or purpurescent-ochreous, both colours sometimes being 
dark olivescent tinted; more or less thickly speckled with black or dark brown 
strige and scales, which are most densely packed and partly-confluent where 
they form the ill-defined broad dark-blotched fasciz on the forewing and a blotched 
cell and discal patch on the hindwing; the normal dark transverse discal fascia on 
both wings being indicated by an ill-defined brighter pale-edged line ; the posterior 
border and triangular patch before the apex of forewing, and the costal border and a 
submarginal fasciole on the hindwing, generally, being paler and unspeckled. Both 
wings with a submarginal series of ordinary positioned more or less small black 
blotchy-spots with ochreous-white pupil. 
Female. Forewing sharply falcate below the apex. Upperside somewhat paler, 
the markings as in male, the outer margins more broadly-speckled with grey and 
blackish strigze, the subapical black confluent-spots and continuous-patch less sharply 
defined and larger, the ochreous bordering paler and generally of a purpurescent- 
ochreous tint; the strige uniformly-disposed throughout, the transverse fascia 
narrow and slightly-defined ; the submarginal ocelloid-spots as in the male. 
Expanse, 3,9 to 3%, %3,% to 3; inches. 
Hasitatr.—N.-W. and EH. Himalayas; Assam; Burma; Tenasserim; South 
Andamans, Malay Peninsula. 
Disrrisution.—Mr. W. Doherty (J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 120) records this 
species from the “ Kali Valley, 2000 to 4000 feet, in Kumaon.” “It is found in the 
Eastern Himalayas, and the Kbasia Hills, and through Burma to Tenasserim. In 
Tenasserim it was taken by Capt. C. T. Bingham in the Thoungyeen forests in 
April, in the South Andamans by Mr. F. A. de Roepstorff in August, and there are 
specimens in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from the Daffla Hills, and from Sikkim ” 
(Butt. India, i. 258). Through the kindness of the Honble. W. Rothschild we have 
examined and verified Felder’s types of male and female duryodana from Assam 
and Cachar. We possess specimens from Sikkim and from Gen, Ramsay’s Nepal 
Collection. According to Mr. L. de Nicéville (J. A. Soc. Beng. 1882, 56) it is 
“common in Sikkim at low elevations in October.” Mr. H. J. Elwes found it also 
“common in Sikkim from April to November” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 329). Capt. 
E. Y. Watson (J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 36) obtained the dry-season form 
during the Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90 at Tilin, from November to May, “it 
being the commonest Melanitis met with.’ Mr. H. J. Elwes (J. A. Soc. Bengal, 
1887, 417) records the dry-season form from “ Sinbyoodine, Tavoy.” Mr. Roep- 
storff obtained examples of the dry-season form at Fort Blair, South Andamans. 
