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cell area broad. Body robust ; palpi obtuse at the apex, compactly clothed below ; 

 antennfe with an elongated slender club ; eyes hairy. Sexes alike. 

 Type.— T. Jina. 



THARASIA JINA (Plate 259, fig. 1, la, b, J $ ). 



Athyma Jina, Moore, Catal. Lap. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 172, pi. 5, a., fig. 3, i^ (1857) ; id. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1S58, p. 18. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 169 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside fuliginous-black, darkest between the 

 veins ; markings creamy- white ; cilia alternated with white. Foreiving with a broad 

 creamy-white entire olavate streak along lower area of the cell ; a transverse discal 

 excurved series of seven spots, the three upper being elongate and narrow, the 

 fourth small and narrow, the fifth large and narrowly oval, sixth broad and indented 

 on both its sides, the lowest narrow ; beyond is a row of three small subapical spots, 

 followed by a submarginal row of ill-defined slender lunules, and then by a still 

 less-defined marginal line. Hindwing crossed by an inner-discal broad band, and 

 an outer macular band composed of rather broad lunate spots, followed by an 

 indistinct pale bi^own marginal lunular line. Underside bright ferruginous ; 

 markings as above. Forewing also with the posterior margin blackish ; marginal 

 lunular line distinct. Hindwing also with a broad basal white band, and distinct 

 marginal lunular line. Body and palpi above black, abdomen with a bluish-white 

 band ; palpi beneath white, streaked with black ; body and legs beneath bluish-grey ; 

 legs above sullied white. 



Expanse, <S 2n), ? 3i-o inches. 



Habitat. — Nepal ; Sikkim. 



Distribution. — We possess specimens from the late General G. Ramsay's 

 collection taken during his residency at Katmandu, Nepal. Mr. H. J. Elwes records 

 it as " not a common species in Sikkim, and, as far as I know, confined to the zone 

 of heavy forest between 6000 to 8000 feet elevation, where I have taken it in July " 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 353). Mr. L. de Niceville records it as also "occurring in 

 Sikkim in April " (Sikkim Gaz. 1894, 141). 



Chinese Species. — Tharasia Jinoides (Athyma Jina, Leech, Butt, of China, etc., 

 p. 172). Comparatively smaller than Sikkim Jina. Upperside also of a blacker 

 ground-colour ; all the markings are clear- white, not sullied as in Jina; theclaviform 

 cell-streak and the transverse markings are comparatively narrower, except the 

 inner band on the hindwing, which is somewhat broader. Expanse, 2^^ to 2i^ 

 inches. Habitat. — C. and W. China. 



Tharasia Fortuna (Athyma Fortuna, Leech, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 107, pi. 8, 

 fig. 1, la, c? ? ; id. Butt, of China, etc., p. 173, pi, 17, fig. 2 S. Habitat.— C. China. 



