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the inner margin [body ?] by three bands of brown. Foieiving with the outer half dark 

 brown, marked by ten white spots ; four iu a band from the costal margin to the anal angle, 

 and two bands of three spots each near the apex, Hindzmng with the outer margin broadly 

 brown, traversed by two bands of white spots. Underside as above, except that several 

 of the small white spots, near the apex of the fore^tjing, meet and form a band ; that there 

 are two linear white spots near the anal angle, and a linear band leading to two black spots 

 near the outer margin of the hittdwing ; and that there is a lobe at the anal angle as in 

 the other species, bordered above by orange-yellow, marked by two black spots." (^Hewitsoit, 

 1. c. in Ent. Month. Mag.) 



This species, except from the descriptions and figure published, is unknown to me, 

 and the exact locality from whence it was obtained seems doubtful, as it is unlikely that 

 a Dodona should be found so far south at the sea level. It is apparently nearest allied 

 to D. longicaudata, but has much more white on the upperside, and also lacks the tail to the 

 hindwing. The anal lobe as shown in the figure is of very unusual form ; it appears 

 to be divided into two short points. Mr. Moore appears to have edited Hewitson's original 

 description when republishing it in the "Descriptions of New Indian Lepidopterous 

 Insects from the collection of the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson," and as this revised de- 

 scription applies better to the figure (apparently a very rough one) of the species, I give it 

 below as a foot note.* 



602, Dodona longicaudata, de N. (Plate XXIV, FxG. 117 $). 



D. longicaudata, de Nic^ville, Proc. A. S. B., i88i, p. 121, 

 Habitat : Shillong (July and November). 

 Expanse : i'8 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside, ^i?//i -o/z/^'j deep shining brown, /b/vzw'w^ crossed 

 before the middle by a broad white band which does not quite reach the costa, being 

 narrowest at that point and divided by the nervules into two small spots ; this band has its 

 inner margin straight, its outer margin evenly convex ; a submarginal series of six white spots 

 placed irregularly ; an indistinct marginal series of linear spots. Iliiidwiiig with the white band 

 of the forewing continued in a wedge-shaped figure across the disc of the wing, ending in a 

 point just below the first median nervule ; abdominal area paler, with an indistinct white 

 band from the base, and another short transverse one above the anal angle ; incomplete 

 submarginal and marginal bands of white linear spots ; anal lobe black, encircled with a 

 white line and thickly irrorated with white scales. Tail long, black ; tip and cilia white. 

 Underside, both goings rich bright brown, crossed by several silvery-white bands. Forewing 

 with narrow basal and subbasal bands, then a broad median band coincident with the band 

 on the upperside, but reaching the costa ; a short narrow costal band beyond ; then a very 

 irregular broad band which is broken up into spots on the inner side below its middle ; and 

 lastly a marginal series of seven spots, the two upper ones rounded and out of line, the rest 

 increasing, linear ; the ground-colour near the outer angle becoming darker and almost forming 

 two dark brown spots. Hindiving with the two basal and broad median bands as in the fore- 

 wing, but all meeting above the anal angle, at which point they are joined by^two other white 

 bands traversing the abdominal area ; there is also a fourth band from the costa, short, narrow, 

 submarginal, reaching the third median nervule ; between which and the broad median band there 

 is another narrow white line not reaching the costa, in continuation of which is an orange fascia 

 terminating on the abdominal margin in a black linear spot, and bearing two black rounded 

 spots at its upper extremity ; submarginal and marginal white lines ; anal lobe jet-black, 



""Upperside, both luings brown, crossed near the middle by a broad common band of white. Forewing 

 with the base pale rufous-brown crossed by a band of paler colour ; the outer half dark brown marked by ten 

 [eleven in the figure] white spots ; four [five] in a band from the costal margin to the anal angle, and two 

 bands of three spots each, ne.-ir the apex. ///W^o/a^ with the iiuier margin broadly nifons-brown, crossed by 

 a band of paler colour, the outer margin dark brown, traversed by two bands of white spots. Underside as 

 above, except that several of the small white spots, near the apex of the forcivi'i'^, meet and form a band, 

 that there is a submarginal white line, and two white spots near the anal angle, and a linear band leading 

 to two black spots near tlie outer margin of the hindxuing, and that the lobe at the anal angle is bordered 

 above with orange-yellow marked by two black spots." 



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