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season brood. Underside much darker ochreoiis-i'ed than in the dry-season brood, 

 markings narrower, as on upperside. 



Expanse, c? 3, ? Sj^o inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas ; Nepal ; Assam; Khasia Hills ; Cachar ; Bm'ma; 

 Tenasserim. 



Distribution. — This is a somewhat rare species. " Mr. A. Graham Young has 

 taken it in Kulu. I found it sparingly in October in a wooded stream below 

 Kotgarh ; Capt. A. M. Lang has taken it in Masuri in June and August " (de 

 Nic^ville, Butt. Ind. ii. 168). We possess specimens of the dry-season form from 

 the Western Himalayas, and also both sexes from Nepal, taken by the late Major- 

 General G. Ramsay. The Rev. J. H. Hocking records it as " very rare in Kulu " 

 (P. Z. S. 1882, 241). "Mr. J. Wood-Mason obtained the wet-season form at 

 Irangmara, Cachar, during July ; it occurs also at Sibsagar in Upper Assam (S. E. 

 Peal), and in the Khasia Hills" (de Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. 168). Both sexes of 

 the dry-season form from Assam are in Mr. P. Ci'owley's collection. Colonel 

 Swinhoe has received the wet-season form commonly from the Khasias, Shillong 

 and Cherra Punji. Colonel C. H. E. Adarason obtained it in the " Arakan Hills in 

 March, and at Bhamo in Upper Burma " (List, p. 22). Col. C. T. Bingham took it 

 in the Thoungyeen Valley, Upper Tenasserim, in May. Mr. Moti Ram obtained 

 "two females in Tavoy " (J. A. S. Bengal, 1887, 423). 



TACOR-EA IDITA (Plate 258, fig. 1, la, S)- 



Athyma Idita, Moore, Proc. Zool. Sec. Lond. 1858, p. 16, pi. 51, fig. 3, S- Distant, Rliop. Malay, 

 p. 160, pi. 16, fig. 9, 10, S ? (1883). de Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 168 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside purpurescent-black ; markings bluish- 

 white ; cilia alternated with white. Forewing with a narrow white claviform sti-eak 

 from base of cell and a large triangulate spot beyond its end ; a transverse discal 

 excurved series of seven spots, the two upper elongate, the two next short and 

 small, the next larger and round, the two lower quadrate ; three small subapical 

 lunular spots ; a submarginal row of slender excurved lunules, the lowest being 

 most distinct, and a very indistinct marginal pale lunular line. Hindiving crossed 

 by an inner discal white band and a narrower submarginal row of seven spots, of 

 which latter the upper two or three are centred with a black dot ; a very indistinct 

 pale marginal lunular line. Underside purplish-red, with pinkish-Avhite markings, 

 as above. Forewing also with slender black cell streaks, a black ringlet-mark below 

 the cell, and black spots inwardly bordering the submarginal lunules. Eindiving 

 also with a curved subbasal white band, and two marginal rows of slender white 

 lunules ; abdominal margin bluish-grey. Body above black, base of abdomen with a 



