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Mr. Wood-Mason met with this species in profusion in May in the forests around Silcuri, 

 Cachac; other specimens were taken in July. Mr. A. O. Ilume found it commonly in the 

 forests of Eastern Munipur in the spring, and Mr. Otto MiJller has taken numerous specimens 

 in the neighbourhood of Darjiling in June. 



The figure on the opposite page shows the upper and undersides of a female specimen from 

 Sikkim in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



293- Sticlxophtlialma loulsa, w.-m. 



ThaHtnanth laiiisa, Wood-M.ison, Proc. A. S. I?., p. 163 (1877) ; id., Journ. A. S. I?., vol. xlvii, pt. ii, p. 175, 

 pi. xii (1878), ww/tr; id., Moore, Proc Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 827 ; id., Marshall, Journ. A. S. B., vol. li, 

 pt. ii, p. 40, n 5 (18S2), /ciiia/c. 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse: ^, 525 ; y, 5 '8 inches. 



Description: "Male: Upperside whitish. /^^jvrww? with the basal half, and kindioing 

 with the basal two-thirds deep and pure fulvous ; each wing, as in 3". howqna, with a sub- 

 marginal lunular fascia with spear-shaped spots coalescing, deep violaceous-fuscous ; the 

 lunules and spots of the hindwing much larger. Underside luteous-fulvous. Foreiuing 

 with the median part only whitish, scarcely tinted with luteous ; with four sinuate lines, two 

 basal deep brown, two others submarginal, obsolete, and only near the anal angle brown 

 coloured. Forewing with five ocelli all obsolete ; hindwing with two, rufous, with whitish pupil 

 and slender black iris, and three intermediate obsolete." {Wood-Mason, 1. c. in Journ. 

 A. S. B.). " Femile differs from the figure of the male in the following particulars : Upper- 

 side with the fulvous ground-colour on the hindwing extending completely up to, and 

 embracing the heads of, the hastate border spots, the ground-colour of the outer portion of 

 both loings being not white but pure French grey, the only traces of pure white being on the 

 farewing, at the middle of the costal margin and outside the median transverse line and 

 decreasing from its costal end. The dusky tipping at the apex also extends below the sub- 

 costal nervure. Underside with the fulvous portions not luteous, but strongly suffused with 

 grey, and altogether of a far colder tone ; the hastate border spots of the upperside pale, but 

 perfectly distinct and complete. Eindzoing with the outer submarginal lunular line obsolete, 

 the inner one slender and incomplete, whereas in the figure of the male both these lunular 

 lines are complete and prominent. It of course lacks the tuft of erectile hairs on the hindwing 

 which is present in the male." {Marshall, 1. c.) 



"This fine and distinct species belongs to the same division of the genus as 5. camadevay 

 S. nourmahal, S. cambodia, and S. hotaqua,* to the last of which it is most nearly related, 

 but from which it differs in having the upperside of the wings white and fulvous, instead of 

 fulvous throughout, and in having five spots, the red rings of the ocelli, on the underside of the 

 forewing, and only two well-developed ocelli on the hindwing, instead of three and five ocelli 

 respectively." (IVood-A/ason, 1. c. in Journ. A. S. B.) 



The type specimen was taken at Taoo, 3,000 to 6,000 feet altitude, by Limborg in the cold 

 weather. Capt. C. T. Bingham took the female above described between March and May 

 in the Lovver Thoungyeen forests, and Mr. Butler records it (Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 

 fifth series, vol. x, p. 372, 1882) from the Thoungyeen valley, from specimens also collected 

 by Capt. Bingham. 



• Tliamnrtniis howgua, Westwood, Trans. Ent. .Soc. Lond., newseries, vol i, p. 174 (1851) ; idem, id., vol. iv, p, 

 178, n. q, pi. xviii, figs 2, 2a (1856); Stichofihthalnia lunvqiia, Fekler, Wien Ent. Monatsch., vol. vi, p. 28, n. 23 

 (1862). Habitat: Shanghai, China. Expansk : 5 inches. Description : 1\Iale and fe.malk : UrriiRSiDE, ^(7//i 

 •wings fulvous, with a submarginal series of much curved black lunulas, and inwardly with black spear-shaped 

 spots coalescing with them, which are larger on the hindwing. Underside, both wings luteous fulvous, p.iler 

 than above, crossed by two oblique, irregularly sinuate black lines, the inner one crossing both cells but not reach- 

 ing the abdominal margin of the hindwing, the outer one beyond the middle of the forewing about the middle of 

 the hindwing recurved just before the anal angle of the hindwing, below which is an irrorated fuscous and grey 

 spot. The two black lines are very wide at the costa of the forewing, decreasing irregularly towards the anal 

 angle of the hindwing. the space between them darker than the rest of the ground. A discal series of five ocelli 

 on both wings, red with whitish pupil and slender black iris, the first and fourth on the forewing and the fourth 

 on the hindwing not quite perfect. Within the series of ocelli the ground is somewhat darker, becoming paler 

 before reaching the outer fuscous line. A submarginal somewhat lunulate fuscous liue, (Described from West- 

 wood's figure J. 



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