yz LEMONIID^. NEMEOBIIN/E. DODONA. 



Description: "Male, Uppicrside, (^t;M 7t//«^'i brownish black. Foieioing with three 

 transverse discal equidistant ferruginous bands, the meiial one broadest, the first two 

 oblique ; two white dots at apex. Hi/uhoino with transverse discal and two narrow martjinal 

 ferruginous bands ; anal lobe with a white bar and border. Underside dark ferruginous. 

 Foieivin^r with the transverse bands less defined, yellow, terminating on the costal margin 

 in white spots; two apical white spots. Himhuing \s\\.\\ bluish basal and purplish medial 

 transverse discal interrupted bauds, the latter with an inner border of brown, each having 

 a white spot on the costal margin, that of the latter with a black inner border ; two narrow 

 marginal brown bands, two black purple-bordered dots at anterior angle, and black and 

 white lines bordering the black lobe. Female. Upperside, both wings dull fuliginous- 

 brown, somewhat black apically. Foreiving with medial broad transverse discal oblique 

 white band, and an outer or submarginal narrow interrupted ferruginous-white line; two 

 apical dots white. Hinhvin^ with two marginal pale brown lines, terminated at the anterior 

 angle with two pale-bordered black spots ; anal lobe black. Underside as in male." 

 (^Moore, 1. c.) The outer margin of both wings is entire, not in the least scalloped. 



D. oniiia is a widely-distributed species, occurring at Masuri, in Sikkim, Bhutan, and east- 

 wards to Upper Assam. Tlie sexes are more strongly differentiated than in any other species 

 of the genus, the male has three ferruginous bands on the forewing, the outer one decidedly 

 macular ; the female has one only, which is white. 



600. Dodona adoaira, Hewitson. 



D. adonira, Hewitson, Ex. Butt , vol. iii, Dodona pi. i, figs, i, 2, male (1866) ; id., de Niceville, Journ, 

 A. S. B., vol. Hi, pt. 2, p. 95, n. 220 (1883) ; Taxila fatna, Boisduval MS^ Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. 

 Mus. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 243, n. 523 (1857). 



Habitat : Sikkim, Bhutan. 



Expanse : i"5 to i"8 inches. 



Description : '• Male. Upperside, both ivings dark brown, paler near the base. 

 Forewing crossed transversely by three parallel equidistant rufous bands [the two inner ones 

 broadly united near the inner margin]. Huuhoing lobed at the anal angle : crossed obliquely 

 by four narrower bands of the same colour [the first, second and fourth long, uniting at the 

 anal lobe, the third short, not extending below the second median nervure] ; the anal lobe 

 marked by two spots of black : rufous above the lobe and spotted with black. Undekside, both 

 goings orange-yellow with the outer margins dark brown ; crossed by five narrow dark 

 brown bands, broken where the wings meet. Forewing with a sixth short band beyond the 

 third. //i'/j(/w/«^ with a sixth and seventh band near the inner margin : orange near the anal 

 lobe and marked with several black spots." {^Heioitson, \. c.) Female. Upperside, ytf/-^7c/«^ 

 with the rufous bands broader and paler, with a marginal apical series of five small round 

 rufous spots. Hindiuing with the black spots above the anal lobe in the male, amalgamated 

 with the bands of the ground-colour crossing the wing. Underside as in the male. 



D. adonira is a very beautiful and distinct species. The upperside is very similar to that 

 of D. onida male, but the underside is pale yellow, crossed by numerous narrow clearly- 

 defined dark brown bands, the hmdwing lacking the two round black spots on the outer 

 margin, divided by the discoidal nervule, which occur in all the other species of the 

 genus except D. longicaiidata. It is a very rare species also with a very limited range, 

 having only been recorded from Sikkim and Bhutan. 



601. Dodona deodata, Hewitson. 



D. deodata, Hewitson, Ent. Month. M.ig., vol. xiii, p. 151 (1876) ; idem, id., Desc. Lep. coll. Alkln- 

 son, p. 3, pi. I, fig. I (1879). 



Habitat : Moulmein. 

 Expanse : 17 inches. 

 Description: "Upperside, both isjings white, crossed near the base and parallel lo 



