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ginal area, the latter band being traversed by a slender white lunular line ; between 

 the middle and lower medians is a small black spot on the inner ochreous band. 

 Body above blackish, banded with white ; front spotted with white ; palpi above 

 black ; palpi beneath, thorax and abdomen beneath, and legs, white ; antennge black ; 

 eyes reddish. 



Female. Upperside as in the male, except that the markings are somewhat 

 broader, and the wings entirely unglossed with blue. Underside also similar to the 

 male. 



Expanse, c? 2i-o to 3j^, 9 3^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Assam ; Naga Hills ; Upper Burma. 



Distribution. — " This is a rare species in Sikkim ; the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 possesses specimens from the Naga Hills and Sibsagar in Upper Assam " (de Nice- 

 ville, I.e. 62). Mr. Elwes says " this very beautiful species is seldom found in 

 Sikkim at low elevations between April and October. The only female I have ever 

 seen is in Otto Moller's collection " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 340). We possess three 

 males from the late Arthur Grote's cabinet. A female was in Mr. H. Druce's 

 collection. Mr. de Niceville (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 134) also records it from 

 Upper Burma. 



Mimicry. — This insect is a wonderful mimic, on the upperside of the wings, of 

 the white spotted and banded group of Athyma — the species of the latter genus, which 

 it apparently mimics, have often been seen by Mr. de Niceville, in Sikkim, at rest 

 with their wings widely expanded ; it is therefore probable that M. Chevana 

 assumes the same attitude. 



Chinese Allied Species, etc. — Mimathyma Leechii (Apatura Chevana, Leech, 

 Butt. China, etc., p. 155, pi. 16, fig. 6, <? 7iec Moore). — Male. Upperside differs from 

 M. Chevana in being of a blacker colour ; both wings with the discal area suffused with 

 deep brilliant blue in certain lights ; all the markings of a pure white colour and of 

 smaller size, the discoidal streak on forewing and both discal bands on the hindwing 

 being also much narrower. Underside similar to M. Chevana, but the markings 

 more sharply defined. On the forewing the lower discal dark interspaces are en- 

 tirely deep black, and the chestnut-red portions broader. On the hindwing both 

 the discal and marginal chestnut-red bands are broader, the nacreous submarginal 

 area consequently being narrower. Female. Upperside as in the male, all the 

 markings pure white. Expanse, c? 3, ? 3^ inches. Habitat. Moupin, W. China ; 

 Omeishan, C. China. 



Genus Bremeria. — Male. "Wings broad. Forewing comparatively short, sub- 

 triangular ; costa arched, apex rounded, exterior margin slightly scalloped, posterior 

 angle rounded ; cell short and very broad, open ; first and second subcostals 

 emitted before end of the cell. Hindwing broadly obconical ; anterior margin much 



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