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the cell ; a transverse discal pale ferruginous-yellow straight band decreasing in 

 width from the costa to the submedian vein, followed by an outer-discal dusky 

 clouded fascia and a subanal ferruginous-ringed ocellate spot, beyond which is a 

 pale ferruginous-bordered blackish submarginal lunular fascia and a narrow 

 marginal line. Underside pale ferruginous, brightest on the forewing ; with 

 markings similarly disposed as on the upperside. Foreiving with the cell marks 

 formed of black rings ; the transverse discal lunules being white and their inner 

 edge defined by black ; subapical lilacine-white dots and lower ocelloid black spot, 

 below which latter is a contiguous black patch ; the submarginal fascia and marginal 

 line being inter-bordered by lilacine-white. Eindiving with a blackish dot and 

 lunular mark at end of the cell ; the discal fascia lilacine-white, the submarginal 

 lunular fascia and marginal line also inter-bordered by lilacine-white, and the 

 subanal ocellus centred with white. Body above olivescent-brown ; palpi above 

 black ; palpi beneath, body and femora beneath whitish ; legs above pale ferruginous ; 

 antenna black, club tipt with red ; eyes red, hairy. 



Female. " Duller coloured than the male, the discal series of pale ferruginous 

 spots on the forewing and discal line on the hindwing absent, but replaced by an 

 irregular ferruginous diffused band, which is inwardly sharply defined. Forewing 

 with three subapical white dots only ; the anal ocellus on the hindwing smaller and 

 blind. Underside marked much as above, but paler, the discal band outwardly 

 marked with lilac, and a small j^atch of that colour below the apex of the forewing, 

 the white dots larger " (de Niceville, I.e.). 



Expanse, 1 ^-q to 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Khasia Hills. 



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

 has specimens from Sikkim, and Buxa, Bhotan" (de Niceville, I.e. 53). Mr. Elwes 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 340) says it is " very rare in Sikkim, and where I do not know 

 its habitat or season." Mr. de Niceville (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 135) states that 

 it "has been obtained by Mr. T. A. Hauxwell at about 4000 feet elevation, in 

 October, below the Station of Darjiling, but is very rare in Sikkim, far commoner 

 at Daling at 5000 feet, and in Bhotan." Colonel C. Swinhoe possesses several 

 males, taken in the Khasia Hills. 



Genus ROHANA. 



liohana, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 27 (1880). Semper, Eeisen Phil. Lep. p. 81 (1887). 

 Apatura (part), de Niceville, Butt. India, etc., ii. p. 48 (1886). Staudinger and Schatts, Lep. Exot. 

 p. 165 (1888). 



Imago. — "Wings small. Male. Foreiving short and broad, subtriangular ; 



