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and the transverse yellow macular band also somewhat broader than in specimens 

 from Sikkim and Bhotan. Specimens from the Khasia Hills are the darkest of all, 

 and vary in the width of the yellow macular band. 



Distribution. — "This is not a common species; it occurs from Nepal to Upper 

 Assam, and Burma" (de Niceville, Butt. lad. ii. 202). We possess specimens of both 

 sexes taken in Nepal by the late General Gr. Ramsay. It has been taken in Sikkim 

 and Bhotan by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, and Dr. J. Anderson took it in Upper Burma 

 during the Yunan Expedition. Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 359) says it is 

 " a rare species in recent years in Sikkim. I have taken it near Cherra Punji, in the 

 Kliasias, in September, and find that the Khasia specimens can be distinguished from 

 Sikkim ones by their narrower bands." Mr. de Niceville ( Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 

 143) says it is " common in Sikkim and Bhotan at 5000 feet elevation. It is found 

 also in Nepal, the Naga, Khasia, Chin Lushai, and Karen Hills. It probably flies 

 about midsummer in the heavy forest zone in Sikkim." Col. C. Swinhoe (Tr. Bat. 

 Soc. 1893, 285) says it is "common in the Khasias." Mr. W. Doherty obtained it 

 at Bernardmyo, Upper Burma, from 5000 to 7000 feet in March, 1890, and in 

 E. Pegu, 4000 to 5000 feet in March and April. 



Chinese Allied Species. — Ghucapa Hebe (Euthalia Hebe, Leech, Entom. 1891, 

 Suppl. p. 4; Butt, of China, etc., p. 139, pi. 21, fig. 7). Habitat.~W. China. 



Genus LABRANGA. 



Lahranga, Moore, Lep. Indica, iii. p. 49 (1896-7). 



Male. — Wings large, broad, short. Foreicing subtriangular, apex obtusely 

 rounded, exterior margin scalloped ; first subcostal branch anastomosed to the costal 

 in both sexes ; first and second subcostal branches emitted before end of the cell ; 

 discocellulars deeply concave ; cell closed ; the two upper median veinlets emitted 

 from lower end of the cell. Hinclwing very broad ; exterior margin very convex, 

 deeply scalloped ; cell closed ; the two upper median veinlets emitted from end of 

 cell. Body robust. Eyes naked. Sexes alike. 



Ti'PE. — L. Durga. 



LABRANGA DURGA (Plate 246, fig. 1, la, b, cJ ? ). 



Adolias Durga, !Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. Ind. Compy. i. p. 196 (1857) ; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1859, 



p. 80, pi. 9, lig. 2. Butler, P.Z.S. 1868, p. 602. 

 Huthalia Durga, de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 199 (1886). 



Male and Female. — Upperside very dark bronzy olive-green ; with an obscurely 

 defined broadly-diffused black lunulated submarginal fascia and a narrow marginal 

 fascia ; basal black-lined marks slender ; cilia alternately black and white. Fore- 

 wing crossed by a broad white medial discal band extending from the costa to 



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