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UPPERSiDE the bands are of an orange-yellow, much hioaaer and with irregular sinuous 

 margins, the band from the hind margin oi forrwiug being joined to the subapical and extend- 

 ing thence inwards to the costa, from which a small streak ascends to near the apex ; on the 

 hind-wing i\\Q submargiiial band is narrower, has an even outer edge, and extends to very near 

 the anterior angle ; a narrow marginal line runs from anal to anterior angle. On the under- 

 side the tesselations are different, but prominent ; the submarginal band on hindwittg is formed 

 of short black transverse streaks, the second and third spaces only tinged with metallic greyish 

 blue ;^a short black anal spot and two greyish-blue-streaked black-bordered lunulcs from caudal 

 angle." [^Moore, 1. c.) «' The female is much like the male, but all the red markings are 

 larger and more confluent." {Dohcrty, 1. c.) 



I have specimens of this species from Simla named by Mr. Moore. It is quite distinct 

 from S. hypselis, but it is near to S. asthala, differing from that species in the bands of the 

 uppers.de being much paler in colour and broader, the subapical streak reaching the costa. 

 always coalescmg with the discal band in the female, occasionally doing so (according to Mr 

 Moore) in the male, and with a short streak beyond. In two Simla male specimens taken 

 by me the discal conical spots and submarginal lunules on the underside of the hindwing are 

 very large and centred with cerulean blue, not green ; in two Kulu female specimens they 

 are more or less obso ete It is a rare species. Mr. W. Doherty met with it in the Pindad 

 Valley in North-Westeru Kumaon, 5—8,000 feet. 



&enus 83.-RHIN0PALPA, Felder. (Plate XXIII). 



RhinoMlpa,Y^\^., Wien Ent. Monatsch.. vol. iv, p. 399 (i860); idem, id., Neues Lep., p. 49, 

 p! 405US6V) ^^''''^■' ^" ^' ^'^^''' Eurlunia, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. ij 



-Differs from Precis, Hiibner, Moore, in its longer antennae and palpi, more robust 

 habit ; in the third subcostal branch of the forewing arising long after the middle of the 

 wing, and the second discoidal nervule of that wing very near to the first, scarcely arched." 

 {Felder, 1, c. in Wien. Ent. Monatsch. ) 



Forewing, triangular ; cosla very strongly arched, slightly indented near the base ; apex 

 truncate ; outer margin very deeply emarginate between the upper discoidal and first median 

 nervules, below which it is oblique ; inner margin slightly sinuous ; costal ne,-jure reaching 

 the middle of the wing ; subcostal nervure giving off its first' and second branches close together 

 before the end of the cell, third branch emitted nearer to the origin of the fourth than to the 

 apex of the cell, not reaching the apex of the wing, fourth branch reaching the apex ; upper 

 disco-cellular nervule short, outwardly oblique ; middle disco-cellular practically obsolete, as the 

 discoidal nervules spring from the same point, lo-joer disco-cellular absent, so that the discoidal 

 cell is entirely open ; third median nervule gently arched ; submedian nervure straight. Hind- 

 wing, with the costal margin slightly arched, the outer margin almost straight to the discoidal 

 nervule which is produced into a blunt tail, afterwards deeply concave to the anal angle, which 

 is produced; abdominal margin deeply excavated below the termination of the internal 

 nervure, and again slightly at the termination of the submedian ^^txs^xx^ -, prcecostal neivure 

 strongly bent outwards ; c^j/a/ nervure strongly arched, /;■.?/ subcostal nervule gently arched; 

 ioiver disco-cellular nervule absent, so that the discoidal cell is entirely open ; third median 

 ne>-vule almost straight. Palpi long, porrect, reaching to the level of the top of the head ; 

 eyes not very prominent, naked ; antenncE short, less than half the length of the forewin-, 

 terminating in a lengthened somewhat large club ; thorax stout ; abdomen short. '^ 



^ The above description is taken from the typical species, R. fulva, Felder, the only other 

 Indian species, which is allied to R. sabina, Cramer, presents many points of difference, and has 

 been described as the type of a distinct genus by Mr. Doherty as below under the name oiYoma.* 



* Genus Yoma, Doherty, MS. Forbwing, shaped as in RhinoPafia, with the costa similarlv inrl^nfoH ->v n,<. 

 base, the a/>ex falcate, but the outer marg.n almosEstraight below the fa ci on ^/r^/ c JT/f/ Lil ^ ^ ' ""I 

 the'^h-Vd'"^ t°" "^^ "t °' "^^ t\ '1^^ ^^'"""^ ^l^''^ nfarerthe end of the ceil fh^n'toI'lTe'o 15^^^ tf L'flrf 

 th! f,r„r^ TT^ '^K- °T""''^ H'^\,^'^"''''^T''^y ''^^•^'^"^"dtheape.xof thewing.oppofuetotheendof 

 the fu.t subcostal, rcach.ng the ape.x of the wmg.-the^«r;/4 z.ni fifth midlvay betNvcen the orfgh of the fourth 



