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Underside bright yellowish-ochreous ; markings as above, but all purer white, more 

 or less margined with black ; marginal lunules distinctly violescent- white and 

 externally black-edged. Fovewing also with the posterior border interspaced with 

 diffused pale purpurescent-black patches, and a black ringlet-mark below the cell. 

 Hindioing also with a subbasal white band edged with black along the precostal 

 vein, this band also extending hind ward along the abdominal margin ; the discal 

 band more or less margined on each side with black, the submarginal band entire, 

 with the black spots disposed within its inner edge. Body and palpi above black ; 

 thorax with two white bands and abdomen with white segmental bands ; collar and 

 vertex ochreous ; palpi beneath and legs greyish- white ; antennaj black, its basal 

 joint white beneath. 



Expanse, 2j^ to 3 inches. 



Caterpillak. — Cylindrical ; segments of equal thickness ; head larger than 

 second segment, face, sides and vertex spined; segments armed with a subdorsal 

 row of long branched-spines and two lateral rows of much shorter branched-spines, 

 those on the 5th, 7th, 9fch, 11th, and 13th segment of the subdorsal row shorter 

 than the others. Head black, with red spines ; body pale green, beneath and legs 

 reddish, spines red. 



Chrysalis. — Somewhat elongate; brown, richly gilt wing cases prominent; 

 with an elevated forward-projecting conical anterio-dorsal prominence and a conical 

 thoracic prominence ; head-piece projected in front and acutely bifid. 



Habitat. — India; Burma; Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Siam, &c. 



Distribution within our Area. — " This is one of the commonest as well as the 

 most widely distributed species of the genus. It occurs throughout the outer 

 ranges of the Himalayas and in Eastern, South-Western and Southern India to 

 Travancore — but not in Ceylon — throughout Burma and the Malay Peninsula " (de 

 Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. 167). From the Western Himalayas Col. A. M. Lang 

 records its capture at "Kasawli, April to October" (MS. Notes). Capt. H. B. 

 Hellard took it in "Simla, Masuri, and Kashmir, June to October" (MS. Notes). 

 Mr. W. Doherty records it from " Kumaon generally, from 1000 to 6000 feet 

 elevation ; unlike the other species of Athyma it prefers open meadows to forests " 

 (J. A. S. Bengal, 1886, 125). According to Mr. H. J. Elwes it is much rarer in 

 Sikkim than in the N.W. Himalayas and Khasia Hills. Mr. Moller notes it as being 

 found up to 3000 feet all the year round, but I have never observed it myself " 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 353). Mr. G. C. Dudgeon has taken it in Bhotan. Mr. L. 

 de Niceville obtained " two specimens taken in the Calcutta District in the cold 

 weather" (J. A. S. Beng. 1885, 45). Mr. J. Wood-Mason took "twenty-four male 

 and eleven female specimens at Silcuri in Cachar between April and September" 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 359). 



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