﻿206 LKPIDOVTVAIA INDICA. 



being lunate, the others disposed obliquely inward and are narrow, followed by a 

 submarginal row of diffused lunules, and a marginal slender lunular line. Hindwing 

 with a moderately narrow inner-discal sullied brownish-white band and a lunulated 

 submarginal band, followed by a marginal slender line. Underside ochreous-red, 

 with darker dusk}' reddish-black intervening patches as in the male; the markings 

 as on the upperside but all violaceous-white ; the hindwing also having a subbasal 

 violaceous-white sti'eak; abdominal margin bluish-grey. Bochj and palpi above 

 brownish-black; abdomen of female above with a narrow bluish-white band ; body 

 and palpi beneath, and legs, greyish-white; middle and hind legs above brownish- 

 white ; antenna3 black, tip beneath reddish. 



Expanse, S 2^0 to 2^^,, ? 2/\j to 2i^o inches. 



Bn/season hiood (Plate 268, fig. 1, J, e, (J ? ). 



Lmago. — Male. Smaller than the n-et-season form. Upperside with the discal 

 white band comparatively broader and its edges more even, the subapical spots on 

 forewing more prominent and larger, the marginal pale lines similar. Underside 

 with the ground-colour duller ochreous-red, markings the same but less prominent. 



Female. Upperside, ground-colour slightly paler, and the markings somewhat 

 broader than in wet-season female. Underside paler and duller red, the markings 

 less prominent than in the wet-season form. 



Expanse, S 2^^ to 2^, ? 2^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Kumaon ; Sikkim : Bhotan ; Assam; Khasias ; Manipur; Upper 

 Bui'ma; Tenasserim. 



DiSTEiBCTiON. — Mr. W. Doherty records specimens taken in the " Gori and Kali 

 Valleys, East Kumaon, 2000 to oOOO feet elevation — the specimens varying consider- 

 ably in markings " (J. A. S. Beng. 1586, 125). " Males of Zerocn are not uncommon 

 at low elevations in Sikkim, but the female is much less often met with. It occurs 

 Eastward in the Assam Valley as far as Sibsagar, and was obtained by Dr. Anderson 

 during the Yunan Expedition" (de Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. 177). Mr. H. J. Elwes 

 says it is " found in Sikkim at the same elevations and seasons as Sdvnopliora, but 

 not so common. The female is rare" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 355). Mr. de Niceville 

 records it as " occurring in Sikkim from the level of the Terai up to 4000 feet, from 

 March to December" (Sikkim Gaz. 1894, 141). Mr. G. C. Dudgeon has taken it at 

 Biixa in Bhotan. It occurs in Assam, Manipur, and the Khasia Hills. Signor L. 

 Fea obtained it in the Karen Hills, and at Meleleo in August. Mr. Moti Ram took 

 males in Tavoy (J. A. S. Beng. 1S87, 423). 



Mimicry. — The female resembles, both on the upper and \m^eY&\6.e,Neptis Qidlta 

 and its ally N. Nashona, of which it is probably a mimic. 



Tndo-Malayan Specirp. — Pantoporia Neffe (Tap. Nefte, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. 



