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dusky olive-green fascia and a narrower less-defined marginal fascia ; the transverse 

 macular band, as on upperside, less prominent but of a pale olivescent-yellow, the 

 subapical spots being white ; the discal and submarginal fascia on the forewing more 

 or less blackish speckled posteriorly, and in some specimens the submarginal fascia 

 on the hindwing is marked by a small blackish point between the veins. Body and 

 palpi above dark olive-green, below and legs pale olivescent-yellow ; antennjB black, 

 tipt with ochreous-red. 



Female. Upperside somewhat darker than the male, with similar transverse 

 blackish diffused fascise. Forewing with the oblique discal band composed of 

 prominent olivescent- white spots, and the costal streak ochreous-white ; subapical 

 white spots prominent, sometimes with a minute intervening spot. Hindiving with 

 two upper discal olivescent-wliite spots of either an irregular revei'sely-lunate or 

 oval shape, and with generally a third or lower minute spot, their outer adjacent 

 interspaces between the discal and submarginal fasciae being sullied olivescent-white 

 or bluish- white speckled, forming broad lunate patches. Underside deeper greenish- 

 ochreous than in male ; transverse fascioB much less apparent, especially on the 

 hindwing ; basal marks more slender. Forewing with oblique discal macular band 

 and subapical spots bluish-white. Hindwing with a discal series of either five or six 

 bluish-white irregular-shaped transversely narrowed spots. 



Expanse, S Sj^o to 3i^o. ? 3i^o to 4^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Nepal ; Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Khasia and Naga Hills. 



Remarks. — In some specimens from the Khasia Hills (Plate 242, fig. ], la, b) 

 the upperside of both sexes is very dark sap-green, the macular band in the male 

 being olivescent-white, and in the female bluish-white. In the female also, the upper 

 discal bluish-white spots are small or obsolescent. On the underside, the ground- 

 colour in both sexes is also darker and more greenish, and the macular band bluish- 

 white. 



Distribution. — We possess specimens of both sexes taken in Nepal by the late 

 General G. Ramsay, and a male from Buxa, Bhotan, taken by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon^ 

 as well as others without definite locality from the collection of the late A.Groteand 

 Major J. L. Sherwill. Mr. de Niceville states (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 143) that 

 " it is very rare in Sikkim, where it is found in August and September, but seems 

 to be more common to the East, in Bhotan and the Khasia Hills." Specimens from 

 Shillong and the Naga Hills are in Mr. P. Crowley's collection ; Col. C. Swiuhoe 

 has received it from Shillong and the Khasia Hills. 



MAHALDIA NARAYANA (Plate 242, figs. 2, 2a, ? ). 

 Etdhalia Narayana, Grose-Smith and Kirby, Rhop. Exot. p. 6, Euth. pi. 2, figs. 4, 5, ? (1891). 

 Fkmalf. — Smaller than M. Sahadeva. Upperside paler sap-green than in 



