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costal and radial, and two lunate marks between the medians. Underside reddish- 

 ochreous, suffused with powdery senescent greyish-green at apex of forewing, and ou 

 the hindwing except more or less apically ; basal marks disposed as on upperside, 

 very distinct, and with an additional small mark below the cell of hindwing ; 

 transverse discal and submarginal narrow black sinuous bands prominent, the discal 

 being sinuous, the submarginal on the hindwing being macular, and the latter edged 

 on both sides by pale bluish-grey scales ; and the upper portion of the submarginal 

 band on the forewing is preceded by a small slightly-perceptible whitish dentate spot. 

 Body and palpi above dark brown, below and legs pale ochreous ; antennee black 

 above, reddish beneath. 



Female. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown, as in the male ; basal 

 markings the same but less distinct ; transverse discal and submarginal bands some- 

 what less prominent, the submarginal being more distinctly denticulate, and on the 

 forewing the two interspaces between the subcostal and lower radial both show a 

 sullied-whitish jioint on the submarginal and a lunule on the discal band. Under- 

 side reddish-ochreous ; basal marks slender. Foreiuing with a small bluish-grey 

 patch at the apex ; the transverse discal and submarginal bands, as on upperside, 

 blackish-brown, prominent ; the discal band edged inwardly on the two upper 

 interspaces by a white lunule, and the lower interspaces edged by a much less- 

 defined lunule ; the submarginal band also similarly inwardly-edged by a white 

 point. Hindwing with the basal and posterior area suffused with bluish-grey, the 

 discal band lunular, the submarginal band dentate and more or less obsolescent 

 posteriorly. 



Expanse, cJ 3 to 3i"o, ? 3 to 3^% inches. 



Habitat. — Kumaon ; Sikkim ; Bhotan. 



Note. — Both H. A2)piades and Adima are comparatively larger and more robust 

 insects, in both sexes, than the allied Cachar species Sedeva, and the Burmese Julii, 

 the two latter being easily distinguishable, in both sexes, from the former, by the 

 nearer approximation of the discal transverse-sinuous blackish band with the 

 submarginal band. 



Distribution. — Typical Aj)piades appears to be confined to the Middle and 

 Eastern Himalayas. According to Mr. de Niceville (Butt. Ind, ii. 207) it 

 *' occurs in Nepal, Sikkim and Bhotan," and that " it is the commonest species 

 of Euthalia occurring in Sikkim, and is found throughout the year at lower 

 elevations" (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 143). Mr. H. J. Elwes records it as "common 

 in Sikkim up to 3000 feet elevation from Mai'ch to December" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 1888, 361). Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 124) records Ajijdades from 

 the ** Lower Gori, Jhulaghat on the Kali, Kumaon, from 2000 to 3000 feet 

 elevation. Scarce." 



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