LEMONIID^. LIBYTH^IN.E. • LIBYTIIEA. 303 



Ceylon and in the extreme south of the peninsula, but in South India its marlcings gradually 

 approximate to those of L. .nyrrha as its range extends northwards, till m the N^lg-.s ypieal 

 L mv-rha is met with. In Ceylon it is recorded from the " Central Provu^ces ; h>lls 4,000 

 to 6 000 feet, in forest landsduring S.-W. Monsoon, May to October. Darts about and settles on 

 he ™d Shy and not very easy to capture" ^Hutchison). " Plentiful about 3,500 feet and 

 upwXon tL -,as and banUs'of same m vicinity of iungle" (.....W). " Kandy and 

 Dickoya" (fVade). 



594. Llbytliea leplta, Moore. 



L Upita, Moore, Horsfield and Moore. Cat. Lep. Mas. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 240. n. 519 (^857) ; id., Swinhoe. 

 Prt. Zootsoc. Lond.. .885. p. .30, n. 43 ; id.. Doherty. Journ. A. S. B.. vol. Iv. pt. ., p. 135. n, ,96 (1886). 



Habitat : Himalayas, Assam. 



Expanse : rS to z\ inches. 



DESCRIPTION • " Differs from Lihythea mynha in the ferruginous streak from base of 



UESCRiPiioN . ^' ' ,,^ fi,.-. u„:„p. within the discoidal cell, the second 



fornoing being divided mo two port.on th fi.st ben g J ,^^, ,,^ ,,e terminal 



a round terminal spot beyond its extiemity. {Moore 1. ; ^ combined streak 



spot is joined to the discoidal streak, but the upper and lower edges of th. combmed streak 

 are aliys highly irregular, the cell portion being shaped just hke a tent-peg whde the 

 stLkli fnfJka is continuous, with even edges, so there is no difficulty xn distmgmsh- 

 ngthem M . Doherty remarks (1. c.) that "The prehensores [male anal claspmg org ns] 

 are cure different from those of L. myrrha. from which spec.es it seems per ectly di tmc 



T/./-^ occurs throughout the outer ranges of the Himalayas at moderate elevations, 

 .nd there is a single specimen from Assam in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; 



595. Lll37tliear0llilli, Marshall. (Plate XXIV, FiG. 1 14 ?)• 



L. rchini, Marshall. Journ. A. S. B., vol. xlix. pt. 2. p. .48, n. 10 (x88o). 



Habitat : Khasi Hills. 

 Expanse : 2'o inches. 



i,.scK.Px.o. : .. F»A.. .U.P..S.O. «'; «-;''7-;* rr:t oHwi:; 



disco dllnervule, and aspot near the costa divided into threo portions by tlte subcostal nervules. 

 S»t w «. a large square spot on the middle of the eosla, a straight med.an band aeross 

 rtlwS beTow the eelT not reaehing the inner or outer margins, and cut by the drscoidal and 



San -'^^f^,::^;-^-^^;^^^^-"^^ "- - 

 '*re£rs:rr,:c^^^^^^ , . , 



The ; pe spec -u is in Ma'or Marshall's collection, other specimens have be» obtamed 

 to mIv and October by the late Mr. Cock and by Dr. E. R. Johnson near Shdlong. The 



igure shows both uoner and_un ders.des of the female type spec.men. 



* Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, p. 130, nos. 43- 44. 



