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origin to near its extremity with long yellowisli hairs, longest and most conspicuous towards 

 its extremity. Underside: Bo^/t jc/Z/i^s cvossed by a. dark ferruginous band with sharply 

 defined outer edge from the costa of the forewing near the apex to near the extremity of the 

 submedian nervure of the hindwing, and having a faintly traced submarginal line, before which 

 is a series of blind white-centred ocelli. The cell of the forewing crossed near its middle by a 

 curved ferruginous band, /////(fe'/'w^ crossed by a ferruginous band near the base. Atttetinie 

 ferruginous; pa//>i and /<;;^j tawny yellow." (Atkinson, 1. c.) 



"Atkinson does not give the sex of the specimen described and figured by him, but, as 

 the two specimens in tlie Indian Museum obtained at the same time are males and agree per- 

 fectly in size and markings with his figure, he may be presumed to have described a male. In a 

 specimen of the male recently received from the Upper 'I'houngyeen forests, British Burmah, by 

 Major G. F. L. Marshall, [where it was taken in April], the three white spots on the anterior 

 half of the hindwing are larger, forming a band divided by tiie veins." {IVuoii-Alason, 1. c.) 



This species was also taken by Limborg in Upper Tenasserim at Moolai, 3,000 to 6,000 

 feet elevation. 



2S7. ^mona amathusia, Hewitson. (Frontispiece, Figs. 2, 2a i .) 



Clcrotne amathusia, Hewitson, Trans Ent. Soc. Lond., third series, vol. v, p. 566 (1S67) ; Aemoua a»itt- 

 iftusia, id., Ex. Butt., vol. iv, pi. Zeicxidia and Aetnona, fiijs. 3, 4 (1S68), female; id., Wood-Mason, Journ. 

 A. S. B , vol. xlix, pt. ii, p. 176, n. i, pi. vi, figs. 2, 2a (1880), viale. 



Habitat : Northern India, Naga Hills. 



Expanse ; <? , 2-9 ; ? , 3-2 inches. 



Description: "Female: Upperside rufous-brown, the bands of the underside seen 

 through. Forewing crossed beyond the middle by a band of orange-yellow : the apex dark 

 brown, //inc/wing with some arcuate spots near the apex. Underside rufous, tinted with 

 darker colour. Bot/t wings crossed at the middle by a common rufous-brown band : both with 

 a band of minute rufous ocelli, some of which are pupilled with white : both with a sub- 

 marginal rufous band. Forewing with a pale rufous band near the base, and a spot of the same 

 colour at the end of the cell. Hindwing with a dark rufous band near the base." {Hewitson, 

 I.e.) "Male: Lighter-coloured than the female. Upperside pale fulvous, the striga; or 

 bands of the underside showing through. Foreiuing darker at the base and at the tip, between 

 which darker parts the colour is very pale yellowish-fulvous. Hindiuing of the same shade 

 as the base of the forewing to within a short distance of the margin, whence it is paler, and 

 with an indistinct submarginal series of arcuate marks extending from the apical to the anal 

 angle. Underside uniform pale fulvous ; the strigie as in the female; tlie ocelli (one, the 

 second and largest, perfect, the remaining five rudimentary) of the hindiuing also as in the 

 female, but in the /t?/-£'7w'«^'- only the one between the first and second median nervules and 

 faint traces of that between the first median nervule and the submedian nervure are present ; the 

 thin submarginal brown line more obviously engrailed than in the female." ( IVood-Afason, 1. c.) 



The male specimen described above is unique in the collection of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. 



28S. ^mona pealii, Wood-Mason. (Frontispiece, Figs. 3. 3^ J .) 



At. pealii, Wood-Mason, Journ. A. S. B., vol. -vlix, pt. ii, p. 177, n. 3, pi. vi, figs. 3, 3a (1880), male. 



Habitat : Sibsagar, Upper Assam. 



Expanse : 2 8 inches. 



Description : " Male : Closely allied to A^. amathusia. Upperside coloured and 

 marked in the same manner, but with the ocelli as well as the strigce of the underside showing 

 through. Forewing with the apex angulated, but not produced, the outer margin arched 

 instead of concave-sinuous, and the inner angle not so broadly rounded. Hindivino darker- 

 coloured and also paling towards the outer margin, but with the submarginal series of arcuate 

 marks smaller and less distinct. Underside coloured and marked in much the same manner 

 but with more perfectly formed and more numerous ocelli; the forewing havin"- three (the 

 first between the submedian nervure and the first median nervule, the second tlie largest and 

 best defined) perfect ocelli and two or three rudimentary ones following them, and the hind- 



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