314 LEMONIID/1'. NEMEOBIINvE. DODONA. 



surmounted by a black white-iiTorated space ending in a black spot on llie abdominal margin, 

 which space is divided from the lobe by a white line. Cilia of the forewing brown, except 

 a small portion near the inner angle, of the hindwiiig alternately brown and white. Body above 

 deep brown, with a somewhat rufous collar ; beneath white, with a black median abdominal 

 line. Forelegs pure white, hindlr-gs with tibice and tarsi ochraceous. Ariienmt black, 

 annulated with white." 



"This species seems nearest allied to D. rt'^<7rt'<zAz, from which it may be readily distin- 

 guished on the upperside in having only one median white band, being in fact altogether a much 

 darker insect. It is remarkable for the length of its tails which are quite twice as long as those 

 of D. egeon, which has them the next longest in the genus." (_de A'iceville, 1. c ) The type 

 specimen is deposited in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and from it the figure is taken, 

 showing both sides ; there is another male taken in the same locality in Major Marshall's 

 collection, which differs in slight details from the type specimen, but the species is too well- 

 marked to be mistaken. In this species, as in D. dij>a:a, the subcostal nervure of the 

 hindwing bifurcates be/oe the end of the cell. 



603. DodOaa egfOOn, Doubleday, Hewitson. 

 Taxila e^eon, Doubleday, Hewitson, Gen. Diurn- Lep., vol. ii, p. 422, n. 2, pi. Ixix, fig. 2 (1851). 



Habitat : Nepal, Sikkim, Sylhet. 



Expanse : i'85 to 2 "05 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, forewing fuscous, the basal area thickly irrorated 

 with tawny ; markings tawny. A broad band' towards the end of the cell extending to the 

 inner margin, then curved outwards and upwards and joining a large quadrate spot in the 

 submedian interspace and another in the interspace above ; a large quadrate spot just beyond 

 the end of the cell ; a smaller one placed outwardly below it in the second median inter- 

 space J an irregular submarginal series of spots, those nearest the costa whitish ; two small 

 white spots at the apex divided by the fifth subcostal nervule. Hindiuing with the ground- 

 colour tawny, markings black. A discal band from the costa to the submedian nervure above 

 the anal angle ; another shorter one just beyond from the costa to the second median nervu'e ; 

 the veins tawny, intersecting the black bands ; a submarginal macular band ; the margin black 

 enclosing a fine tawny line ; anal lobe and tail deep black, outwardly margined with white. 

 Underside, botk wings bright ferruginous-brown. Forewing with the base of the costa silvery, 

 a broad silvery band towards the base of the cell, other markings as on the upperside but larger 

 and clearer, those on the anterior half of the wing silvery, on the posterior half tinged with 

 ochreous ; four fine linear spots on the margin from the upper discoidal to the first median 

 nervule, also three discal suffused blackish spots within the submarginal series of spots from 

 the third median nervule to the submedian nervure. Hindwing with a basal silvery band 

 extending down the submedian nervure to above the anal lobe, then recurved and extending 

 up the abdominal area to the base of the wing ; a broader band beyond from the costa 

 to the middle of the submedian interspace where it ends in a point, broadest in the middle; 

 a costal spot ; a discal band in continuation enclosing the disco-cellular nervules from the 

 second subcostal nervule to above the anal lobe where it is recurved and extends up the 

 extreme abdominal margin to the base of the wing ; a large wedge-shaped band beyond 

 from the second subcostal to the second median nervule — all silvery ; two round black spots 

 on the margin, broadly surrounded with silvery divided by the discoidal nervule; some indis- 

 tinct blackish spots below, beyond which are two indistinct whitish marginal lines ; the 

 anal lobe and tail black, narrowly edged with white, the anal lobe with a broad white 

 line bounding it inwardly, then a zigzag black line extending to the first median nervule, 

 with a short black and white bar above on the abdominal margin, and a large grey space 

 irrorated with white. The female is apparently unknown. 



D. egeon is a rare species. It may be distinguished from all the other species of the 

 genus by the prevailing colour of the hindwing being tawny. Mr. Otto Moller and Major 

 Marshall each possesses a single specimen from Sikkim, and there are two from Nepal and one 

 from Sylhet in the Indian Aluscum, Calcutta ; these are all the specimens I have seen. 



