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darkest in wet-season brood. Cilia alternated with white. Both wings with a 

 transverse discal white band, which anteriorly on the forewing is shghtly sinuous 

 edged and macular, and then posteriorly widening with even edge to above the anal 

 angle. Forewing also with a black dot at base of the cell, two black sinuous bars 

 across middle of the cell ; a figure of eight mai'k below the cell, and a discocellular 

 wedge-shaped mark, each interspaced with deep red ; the inner discal border of the 

 white band anteriorly broadly black bordered ; an oblique series of three very small 

 white linearly-dentate spots extending from the upper median veinlet to the sub- 

 costal before the apex, above which is a slender red costal streak ; outer discal area 

 traversed by a broad black duplex lunular band, followed by a narrower marginal 

 wavy line. Eindwing also with the outer discal ai'ea traversed by a broad black 

 sinuous band, a submarginal row of large black broad lunules, followed by a slender 

 wavy marginal line, their lower interspaces and the anal angle being deep red. 



Underside rich glossy pale purplish-grey; base of hindwing from the costal 

 vein deep grey ; the discal white band as above, which is edged inwardly by a very 

 slender blackish line and outwardly by a diffused red line. Foreiviug also with the 

 interspaces of the cell, of the discocellular bars, and of the mark below the cell deep 

 red ; apex broadly suffused with red ; the outer marginal reddish lunular fasciae in- 

 distinctly defined. Hindwing also with three basal prominent white spots, each edged 

 by a slender black line ; the outer marginal reddish lunular fascia indistinctly defined ; 

 anal angle with a broad diffused red patch. Body and palpi above olivescent 

 ochreous-brown ; palpi, body, and legs beneath greyish-white ; legs above pale 

 brownish-ochreous ; antennce black above, red beneath. 



Expanse, 6 2,^0 to ^-^q, ? Z^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Nepal; Sikkim; Silhet ; Shillong ; Naga and Khasia Hills; Upper 

 Burma. 



DisTKiBDTioN. — We possess specimens taken in Nepal by the late General Gr. 

 Ramsay. Mr. L. de Niceville records it as being " found in Sikkim from 5000 to 

 8000 feet elevation in June, July and August, in dense forests. It flies round tops 

 of trees on the highest points of ridges " (Sikkim Gaz. 1894, 141). Mr. H. J. Elwes 

 says it is " a rare species in Sikkim, having much the same habits as L. Zayla, but 

 occurs at lower elevations. A female was taken at Jellapahar in July" (Tr. Ent. 

 Soc. 1888, p. 353). Mr. ^Y. Doherty obtained it in the Naga Hills (P. Z. S. 1891, 

 276). Colonel C. Swinhoe notes it as being common in the Khasias. It is recorded 

 from Silhet and Shillong (Butt. Ind. ii. 159), Capt. E. Y. Watson took "a single 

 male in the Chin Hills, Burma, at 5000 feet elevation, in May " (J. Bombay N. H .S. 

 1897, 655). Di'. N. Manders records a single specimen taken iu the Shan States, 

 Upper Burma, near Koni, on the summit of the hill at 5000 feet elevation at end of 

 October" (Tr. But. Soc. 1890, 523). 



