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middle of the cell and a lunate mark at its end, both centred with crimson ; a 

 crimson streak also at base of the costa. Hindwing with a small black cell-spot 

 and a small upper discocellular lunate mark, and a crimson spot at the anal angle. 



Female. Upperside. Both wings with the transverse discal olivescent-white 

 band and subapical spot as in male, but paler and broader, and with two small 

 slender streaks on the costa ; the submargiual diffused macular black fascia broader 

 and more prominent; the crimson spot at anal angle larger and sometimes duplex. 

 Underside pale purpurescent-brown ; the basal and outer markings as in the male ; 

 the transverse olivescent-white band, and spot, as on upperside. Body and palpi 

 above purpurescent-brown, beneath and legs paler ; antennse black above, reddish- 

 beneath. 



Expanse, cJ 2^% to 3, ? 3i^o to 3n) inches. 



Habitat. — Khasia Hills ; (? Upper Tenasserim). 



Distribution. — " A large series of both sexes from Shillong, Khasias, received 

 from Kev. W. A. Hamilton" (Swinhoe, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 284). " Specimens of 

 both, sexes from Silhet are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta" (Butt. Ind. ii. 188). 

 A female, taken by Captain C. T. Bingham, in March, in the " Thoungyeen Forests 

 in Upper Tenasserim, in Major Marshall's collection," is also referred to under this 

 species by Mr. de Niceville (I.e. 188), but which probably belongs to B. Ira. 



Indo-Malayan Allied Species. — Bassarona Earns (Euth. (Dophla) Eurus, de 

 Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1894, p. 15, pi. 2, figs. 3, 4, c? ? ; id. 1895, p. 420. 

 Habitat. N.E. Sumatra. — Bassarona externa (Euth. (Dophla) externa, de Niceville, 

 I.e. p. 13, pi. 2, figs. 1, 2, c? ?. Eabitat. Nias. — Bassarona Eton (Euth. (Dophla) 

 Eion, de Niceville, I.e. p. 11, pi. 3, figs. 6, 8, <S ?. Eabitat. Java. — Bassarona 

 Bdlata (Adolias Bellata, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 344, pi. 32, fig. 3, i. 8yn. 

 Adolias Cisnsespolis, Hewitson, Ent. M. Mag. 1875, 183 ; Exot. Butt. v. Ad. pi. 4, 

 fig. 14 (1875). de Niceville, J. A. S. Beng. 1894, p. 18. Habitat. Borneo.— 

 Bassarona Eson (Euth. (Dophla) Eson, de Niceville, I.e. p. 12, pi. 1, figs. 3, 5, c? ?. 

 Habitat. Palawan, Philippines. — Bassarona Piratica (Symph. Piratica, Semper, Reise 

 Phil. Lep. p. 93, pi. 17, fig. 3, c? (1888). Habitat. Luzon, Mindoro, Mindanao. — 

 Bassarona Labotas (Limenitis Labotas, Hewitson, Tr. Eat. Soc. 1864, p. 245, pi. 15, 

 fig. 2, ? . Habitat. Menado, 



Genus RANGASA. 



Imago. — Male. Foreioing subtriangular ; costa regularly arched, apex pointed, 

 exterior margin slightly waved and slightly angulate below the apex, concave in the 

 middle ; first subcostal branch free in both sexes ; first subcostal emitted at one- 



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