408 LYCANID. -CHERITRA. 
“ Described from specimens from Sikkim,~ Assam (Shillong), and the Dafla Hills. I 
considered these specimens at first to constitute a species distinct from TZ. ace, but Mr. Otto 
Miller pointed out to me that all his dated specimens with the orange underside were cap- 
tured in Sikkim during the rainy months, while all those with brown-coloured undersides 
were taken in either the spring or autumn, soI have but little doubt that this is another 
case of the extensive seasonal dimorphism which takes place in many of the Zycenid@ occur- 
ring in the oriental tropical and subtropical regions.” (de Wicéville, 1. c.) 
The two forms described above are the extremes, but intermediate forms are by no means 
uncommon. Mr. Doherty records it from “ Askot, 5,000 feet, Baghrihat, 2,500 feet, Eastern 
Kumaon, scarce,” which is probably its most easterly range ; it is very common in Sikkim and 
Bhutan at low elevations, and occurs in March, May, October and November, probably also in all 
the intermediate months ; it is found also throughout Assam, and the Phayre Museum, Rangoon, 
possesses a female specimen captured at Tsenbo, Upper Burma, in May. Mr. Doherty ob- 
tained several specimens in Upper Tenasserim, and writes of a female specimen from Myitta, 
Tenasserim Valley, that it is “ remarkable in having the white spots on the lower part of the 
hindwing united into a short very broad band such as occurs in some specimens of Cheritra 
freya” [=freja, Fabricius]. 
956. Ticherra symira, Hewitson. 
Myrina symira, Hewitson, Ent. Month. Mag., vol. xiii, p. 152 (1876) ; idem, id., II]. Diurn. Lep., Suppl. 
Pp. 26, n. 72, pl. iiid, figs. 107, 108 (1878) ; idem, id., Desc, new Ind. Lep. Ins, Coll. Atkinson, p. 3 (1879). 
HABITAT : Sikkim. 
EXPANSE : I‘I inch. 
DESCRIPTION : ‘* UPPERSIDE, doth wings brown, tinted with purple, the outer margin 
dark brown. Aindwing with the anal angle dark brown, with two tails, a long one in 
continuation of the first median nervule and a short one inside of it. UNDERSIDE, doth wings 
rufous-orange. Hindwing with a black spot crowned with silvery-blue at the base of each 
tail.” (Hewitson, |. c. in Ent. Month. Mag.) 
As Mr. Hewitson’s later description differs somewhat from the above, I give it below 
as a foot-note.* He does not give the sex of the specimen he described, it was probably a 
male, as he says it is tinted with purple on the upperside. I think it most probable that 
this species is one of the protean forms of 7. acte, Moore, most likely an aberration or “ sport”’ 
of the rains’ form of that species. It entirely lacks the two white spots on the anal area of 
the hindwing on the upperside present in 7. acée, a variable feature in that species, some 
specimens having them very large, others very small. 
Genus 157.-CHERITRA, Moore. (PLATE XXIX). 
Cheritra, Moore, Lep. Cey,, vol. i, p. 109 (1881) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 250 (1885). 
“ FOREWING, triangular ; costa uniformly arched to the tip, exterior margin oblique, 
posterior margin straight ; first subcostal nervule emitted at one-half, second subcostal at one- 
third, before the end of the discoidal cell, ¢izrd subcostal immediately before the end, fourth 
subcostal at two-thirds from below the third and terminating at the apex, 7/72 subcostal from 
a slight angle at the end of the cell; disco-cellular nervules slightly waved, lower discoidal 
nervule from their middle ; discoidal cell very broad, long, extending to more than half the 
wing ; second median nervule from close to the end of the cell; /rs¢ median at one-third 
before the end ; submedian nervure slightly waved. HINDWING, short, broadly truncate 
hindwards ; costa much arched at the base and very oblique to the apex ; exterior margin 
angled at the ends of the third and [second] median nervules, with a very long ¢ai/ from the 
* “Upprrsipe, oth wings brown tinted with purple, the outer margin dark brown. Hindwing with two 
tails and two caudal black spots. UNpErsIpB, oth wings rufous-orange, crossed beyond the middle by an indis- 
tinct linear brown band. Hindwing with the lobe and caudal spot black, crowned with blue,” (ewétson, 
1. c, in Ill, Diurn, Lep. ) j 
