﻿202 LEPIDOPTERA INDTCA. 



tlie first which I have taken or seen alive, though I have specimens from 8ikkim. 

 I at once distinguished it in flight and colour from Opalina, which is abundant in 

 my garden." Mr. W. Dohert\' obtained it at Almora, and in Eastern Kumaon 

 generall}^ being common from 2000 to 5000 feet elevation (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 

 125). Mr. de Niceville states that it is "a common species, occurring from Kumaon 

 to Upper Assam ; specimens were obtained in Upper Burma by the Yunan 

 Expedition" (Butt. Ind. 178). In Sikkim, "it is found at the same elevations and 

 seasons as Z'-roca ; the female is rare " (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 355). We 

 possess specimens of both the dry and wet-season forms from Nepal, and others 

 from Sikkim and Bhotan. Col. C. Swinhoe notes it as behig very common in the 

 Khasias. Dr. G. Watt obtained "a single male in Manipur " (Ann. N. H. 1885, 

 304). A female from the Ruby Mines District, Upper Burma, is in Mr. H. Grose- 

 Smith's collection. Dr. N. Manders records it as "rather an uncommon species in 

 the Shan States at from 3000 to 4000 feet elevation " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 524), 



PANTOPORIA SELENOPHORA. 



Limenitis Selenophara, Koliar, Hiii^el's Ki^cliinir, iv. pt. 2, [). 42ij, [il. 7, fiy;. 1, 2, j;^ (18 14). — Dnj-smsf-n 



hi'Ood, 



Atliyiiia -S'eZ(7jq/>/(o?'a, Wcstwood, Gen. JJ. Lep. ii. p. 276 (1850). Moore, Catal. Lep. ilus. E. I. 

 Company,!, p. 175 (18.57); P. Z. S.1858,p.l4. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 176 (1886,\ 

 A/h;/i)ia Bnltiihi, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 12, pi. 50, f. 2, ? .— Wet.sea.<on brood. 



Wet-ncason brood (Plate 267, fig. 1, la, b, c, (J $ ). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside i-ich purpurescent brownish-black, with blacker 

 bordering to the markings ; cilia slightly alternated with wdiite. Foreiuiug with 

 very obscure traces of an ochreous-red interrupted discoidal streak ; a distinct 

 subapical oblique series of three small decreasing bluish-white ovate spots, the 

 lowest being more lunate and more or less obsolescent; below which is a discal 

 transverse bluish-white band composed of four conjoined-spots of variable width in 

 their course, and edged with blue scales, extending from the upper median to the 

 posterior margin, the upper spot being the smallest and triangularly ovate, the second 

 larger, broader, and somewhat quadrate, the third and fourth transversely narrower, 

 the third being laterally indented, — this band is of varying width in individual 

 examples ; followed by a submarginal obscure row of pale brown narrow lunules, 

 and a marginal narrower line. Hindwmg crossed by a discal bluish-white band 

 edged with blue scales, followed by an obscure submarginal row of pale brown 

 Ivmate spots, and a marginal narrow line. Underside brownish-ochreous, the 

 extreme costal base of both wings being yellowish-ochreous, brighter and darker 

 reddish- ochreous on the outer borders and the intervening patches between the 

 veins, those within the discal area being somewhat diffusedly-blackish ; the white 



