﻿158 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



hind tibige and tarsi pale ochreous ; antennge black, the club with a white bar above, 

 reddish beneath. 



Expanse, S 2^^ to 2i^o. ? ^h^o Z^-q inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkioi ; Bhotau. 



DiSTKiBUTioN. — This species, so far as our own observations have extended, 

 appears to be confined to the Eastern Himalayas. We have verified examples from 

 Sikkim and Bhotan only. Mr. L. de Niceville records it as " occurring somewhat 

 commonly at low elevations, in forest, in Sikkim " (Butt. Ind. ii. 152). We possess 

 specimens from Sikkim, and also from Bhotan, taken by Mr. G. 0. Dudgeon in 

 April. Mr. H. J. Elwes records it also as "not uncommon in Sikkim at low 

 elevations, between April and December " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 352). We have 

 examined specimens in Mr. 0. MoUer's collection, taken in Sikkim in March and 

 November. 



Note. — Mr. de Niceville (Butt. Ind. ii. 152) also refers the specimens to 

 Ismene, which were taken by Mr. Wood-Mason in Cachar, recording it also as 

 " occurring in Assam, Silliet, and Naga Hills, Chittagong and Akyab." These 

 specimens probably all belong to the next species {Martha). Some Khasia and 

 Upper Burma specimens certainly have the discal transverse band somewhat 

 variably wider than in Lower Burma and Tenasserim examples of Martha, but all 

 those from the above-mentioned localities will doubtless be found to agree with the 

 latter in the points noted in the description. 



Habits of Imago. — " It has a weak flight, always settles with outspread 

 wings, usually on a leaf" (de Niceville, I.e. 152). 



Of our illustrations of this species on plate 252, fig. 1, la represents a male and 

 female from Sikkim. 



lEBADEA MARTHA. 



PapiKo Marflia, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 56, $ (1787). 



Limenitig Martha, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 59. pi. 1, fig. 4, ? (1869). 

 Limenitis attenuata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 829. 



Leladea attenuata, Moore, Journ. Liun. Soc. Zool. 18S6, p. 35. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. 

 p. 152 (1886). 



Wet-season brood (Plate 252, fig. 2, 2a c? ? ). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside of a darker ground-colour that in Ismene, 

 the discal transverse macular white band on both wings narrower, being throughout 

 about half the width in the male and less than half in the female ; on the forewing 

 the apical portion is disposed more inwardly-obhque, the streaks being longer and 

 narrower, and transversely shorter, and the spot between the middle and lower 



