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on the forewing, and a distinct row of small black patches between the discal and 

 submarginal band on the hindwing ; the extreme outer border of both wings being 

 also blackish. 



Female. Upperside similar to the dry-season form, the ground-colour and 

 markings brighter, the discal bands variable in width but comparatively narrower, 

 the discoidal streak more distinctly divided. Underside of a deeper and brighter 

 reddish-ochreous, the markings more defined, with intervening blackish diffused 

 patches as in male. 



Expanse, S 1^^ to 2^^, ? '^h to 3i^o inches. 



CATEBPiLr.AR. — " Cylindrical ; with six rows of fine branclied-spines, the dorsal 

 being longer than the lateral, and those on the third and fourth segments longer 

 than the rest, the second segment unarmed ; the bases of the legs set with short 

 simple spines ; colour pure gi-een, with a large brown patch on the ninth segment ; 

 spines brown, and head dark brown ; head covered with short simple brown spines 

 and white tubercles " (Davidson and Aitken, J. Bombay, N. H. S. 1896, 254). 



Chrysalis. — " Like that of Athyma Mahesa, but of the processes on the back the 

 posterior one is much longer and more inclined forward " {id. 254). 



Habitat. — Nepal ; Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Assam ; Cachar ; Silhet ; Khasias ; Orissa ; 

 South Indin. 



Distribution. — " This is a very common species, occurring in Sikkim at low 

 elevations, and iu the Terai, and Eastward as far as Sibsagar in Upper Assam, but 

 it is rare in South India. There is a single male from the Wynaad in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, taken by Mr. R. Morgan. Mr. W. C. Taylor has taken it in 

 Orissa " (de Niceville, I.e. 180). We have specimens from Nepal, taken by the 

 late General G. Ramsay, Mr. II. J. Elwes says it is " common at low elevations in 

 Sikkim from March to December" (Tr. But. Soc. 1888, 356). Colonel C. Swinhoe 

 records it as "fairly common iu the Khasias" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 283). Mr. J. 

 Wood-Mason obtained " six males and four females in the forests near Silcuri, 

 Cachar, in June and August " (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 360). In South India, Messrs. 

 Davidson and Aitken observes that " males are common on the Hill tops from 

 August onwards. We get few females. We obtained the larva feeding on 

 Glocnidion velutinum and zeylanicum " (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1896, 254). Colonel 

 Swinhoe has specimens from " Karwar, N. Kanara, taken in August, October, and 

 November" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 283). Mr. G. F. Hampson obtained "two males 

 and one female on the Nilgiris at 3000 feet elevation" (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 354). 

 Captain E. Y. Watson records " one male taken at Kathlekan, Mysore, in 

 Novembei' " (J. A. S. Beng. 1890, 5). Mr. H. S. Ferguson found it " veiy rare in 

 Travancore, one specimen only being taken in July, near Trevandrum " (J. A. S. 

 Beng. 1891, 9). 



