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spots divided by the discoidal neivule, marginal band as above, the anal lobe and a spot 

 beyond black crowned with orange. Gilia white, tipped with black at the ends of the veins 

 throughout. Female larger, wings broader, outer margin of forewing more convex, apex 

 less produced, markings similar throughout. 



Z>, diirga is a very common species all over the outer ranges of the Western Himalayas 

 as far west as Murree and Kashmir, on the east Mr. Doherty records it as occurring in 

 " Kumaon generally, 2,500 to 8,000 feet." 



598. Dodona dipoea, Ilewitson. (Plate XXIV, FiG. 116 $). 



D. dipcea, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. iii, Dodona pi. i, fig. 3 (1866). 



Habitat : Masuri, Nepal, Sikkim, Upper Burma. 



Expanse : i'55 to i'9 inches. 



Description : "Male, Upperside, both zvings dark brown. Forewing with macular 

 bands and spots rufous and white. Hindwing with a short rufous band near the middle, and 

 two submarginal bands of the same colour. Undekside, both w'uigs rufous-brown. 

 Forewing as above. Hindwing crossed near the base and inner margin by three bands of 

 paler colour, the third silvery near its base ; a silver spot on the middle of the costal margin, 

 a band of pale brown below it which curves upwards towards the inner margin, and bordered 

 inwardly with black : beyond the middle a short band of white also bordered inwardly with 

 black, and below it a band of black which bends upwards to the inner margin when it 

 reaches the anal lobe : two black spots bordered above and below with white, and a submargi- 

 nal b.and of brown bordered on each side with white : the lobe black bordered with white." 

 {Hntitson, 1. c.) Female. Larger than the male, the apex of the forewing less pointed, 

 the outer margin convex instead of straight. Uppersidk, both wings with the markings 

 rather more prominent. Underside marked exactly as in the male. 



" I have hesitated before describing this as a species distinct from D. egeon;\y\&^ are 

 alike on the upperside, but whilst the underside of the hindwing of D. egeon is crossed by 

 broad bands of silvery white without any margin, this species has narrow bands of white 

 margined with black." {Heiviison, 1. c.) 



D. dipica is abundantly distinct from D. egeon, not only do the differences Hewitson 

 points out exist, but D. egeon has the markings of the upperside tawny, that colour being the 

 predominating one on the hindwing, and it has also a tail in addition to the anal lobe. 



D. dipcea is really more closely allied to D. etigenes, but D. eugenes has a tail, and the 

 silvery bands of the underside of the hindwing are twice as broad as in D. dipcea. The 

 maikings of D. dtpcea are very similar in character to those of D. dtirga, they are all much 

 reduced however, and some altogether wanting. The subcostal nervure of the hindwing 

 branches before the end of the cell. 



Z>. (/?/>c^a has a limited range as far as is known. It occurs in Masuri, Nepal, and is some* 

 what common in Sikkim in October and November at about 6,000 feet elevation. 



The figure shows both sides of a male Sikkim example in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



There are two male specimens ji 3. Dodotia aXW^A to D. dipcea m the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, obtained by the Yunan Espedition in Upper Burma (probably). They differ on the 

 underside from Sikkim specimens of D. dipcea in having the ground-colour clear ochreous instead 

 of dark brown, the markings are similar in character, tiiough smaller throughout, but are pure 

 white instead of ochreous and silvery, and the anal lobe of tlie hindwing divided into two 

 by a white line through its middle. It may be a local race of D. dipcea, or it may be quite a 

 distinct species, but I do not like to name it without knowing its habitat with more certainty. 



599- Dodona OUida, Moore. 

 D. ouida, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lend , 1865, p. 771 ; id., Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. iii, Dodona pi. i, 

 figs. 4, 5, male ; 6, female (1866) ; TaxiLi craio, Boiiiduval MS, HorsfielU and Moore, Cat. Lep. Musi 



E. I. C, vol. I, p. 243, n. 524 (1857). 



Habitat : Himalayas, Assam. 

 Expanse : 17 to 2"i inches. 



