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the outer edge of the short discoidal cell ; a large black round somewhat obscure subapical spot 

 with a minute white pupil ; a white spot on the upper edge of the large black spot (with a 

 smaller one above it), and a smaller one on its lower edge, and two indistinct dark submarginal 

 sinuous lines. Cilia dark brown, paler towards the inner angle. Hindwing with the apical 

 margin yellow, in continuation of the transverse band of the forewing ; the rest of the outer 

 margin irrorated with yellow scales ; two indistinct sinuous submarginal lines of a darker brown 

 colour ; the nervules and a spot between each pair along the margin brown, owing to the ab- 

 sence of the yellow irrorations. Cilia pale yellow. Undkrside paler and brighter brown. 

 Foreivitig with the yellow macular band of the upperside broader and paler ; two dark sinuous 

 submarginal lines, and irrorated with lilac within the inner one towards the apex ; a prominent 

 black ocellus between the discoidal nervules, minutely pupilied with white, and narrowly ringed 

 with yellow and dark brown, with two prominent white spots above, and two below, sometimes 

 narrowly ringed with dark brown. Himkoiiig with two dark irregular indistinct subbasal lines, 

 a prominent ocellus between the subcostal nervules as on the forewing. The abdominnl margin 

 irrorated with yellow extending into and slightly beyond the cell, the irroration more dense at 

 the anal angle ; a submarginal band of lilac irrorations most pronounced towards the apex and 

 anal angle, broadest and most diffused in the middle ; four small bluish submarginal spots, the 

 fourth developed as an ocellus, and two dark sinuous submarginal lines ; the outer angle yellow 

 as on upperside. The female differs only in the abdomen being shorter, and the forelegs 

 clothed with short hairs. The markings of the wings are identical with those of the male. 

 Sikkim and Assam are the only localities from which we have received this species. 



117- Neorina crishna, Westwood. (Plate xiv, Fig. 34 V). 



Cylio crishna, Westwood, Gen. D. L., p. 361 (1851), male; Ncorina cishna, Butler, Cat. Lep. B. M., 

 SatyrfdcB, p. iii, n. 2 (1868). 



Habitat : N.-E. India, Java. 



Expanse : 375 (Weshvood) ; 5-3 to 5 '8 inches. 



Description: "Male; ^(^riftc;///^ scarcely angulate below the apex. Hind'coing caud^iic 

 in the middle. Upperside, both wings fuscous. Forewitig wiih a broad oblique yellowish white 

 band from the middle of the costa to the hinder angle, including a black mark at the extremity 

 of the discoidal cell ; a large black subapical ocellus with a minute white pupil, and two white 

 spots circled externally with yellowish [above it]. Hindiving with the apex whitish ; two 

 ocelli towards the anal angle ; both wings with a submarginal wavy yellowish streak. Under- 

 side similar, with the subapical ocellus of \.\\q. forewing minute. Hindwing with an ocellus near 

 the apex, and two minute ocelli towards the anal angle." ( IVestdjood, 1. c.) 



The species which we have called N. C7-ishna differs from the original description trans- 

 lated above in the following points : On the upperside of the hindwing there is no trace of an 

 ocellus in some specimens, and in others there is only one towards the anal angle, which shows 

 through by transparency very indistinctly from the underside. On the UNDERSIDE of iht fore- 

 wing the subapical ocellus is large not minute, black, pupilied with white, with a yellow and then 

 a narrow black ring. The hindwing has a subapical ocellus as in the forewing, but with the yel- 

 low iris dilated at that portion of its circumference directed towards the base of the wino- ; a 

 somewhat smaller but still large subanal ocellus between the two lower median nervules, and 

 between these two ocelli there are three other much smaller ones, one between each pair of the 

 nervules, their violet centres somewhat blurred ; these ocelli are sometimes obsolescent, and only 

 represented by suffused violet dots. Both wings with two submarginal dark wavy lines, the 

 area within the inner one and along its outer margin irrorated with violescent scales, which in 

 the hindwing extend up the abdominal margin. There is also an irroration of yellowish scales 

 just beyond and below the discoidal cell. The female is identical with the male in markings, 

 but can be known by its shorter abdomen, and the forelegs clothed with short hairs. 



The great difference in size between the species originally described by Westwood and 

 those referred to above, as well as the notable differences in the ocellation, suggest a doubt as 

 to whether the above identification is correct. Westwood's species is described from Java and 



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