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604. Dodona oneeaes, Bates. 



D. eugenes, B.-ites, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zoology, vol. ix, p. 37' (1867) ; id., Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1882, p. 244 ; id., Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, p. 130, n. 46. 



Habitat : Outer Himalayas from Murree to Bhutan, Assam. 

 E.\PANSE : I '5 to I "9 inches. 



Description: " Malk. Closely allied to D.egeon. Wings of the same shape, and 

 the form of the tail of the hindwing the same. Upperside dark, blackish brown. Forewing 

 with a narrow line across the middle (touching neither the costa nor the hind margin), a curved 

 streak near the hind angle, and about thirteen small spots pretty equally distributed over the 

 apical half of the wing ; all these marks are whitish, except the transverse line and marks 

 near the hind angle, which are slightly tinted with reddish tawny. Hindwing with the outer 

 portion traversed by four indistinct brownish tawny lines, converging from the costa towards 

 the anal angle ; at the apex are two black spots edged with light brown. On the broad, 

 square lobe at the anal angle is a quadrate black spot, a slender tail arising from its outer 

 edge. Underside, the wings are precisely similar to those of D. egeon, being tawny brown, 

 with stripes and spots of white, silky and shining on the hindwing and costa of forewing." 



"The species seems to have been confounded hitherto with D. egfon ; but the very 

 different colour and small dimensions of the stripes and spots of the upperside well distinguish 

 it." {Bates, \.c.) 



In D. eiioencs the outline and markings of the upperside are almost identical with those 

 of D. dipcea,, the narrow tail beside the lobe being the only distinguishing feature, on the 

 underside although the markings are as stated above precisely similar to those of D. egeon, 

 they are narrower and less conspicuous, and the silvery band on the hindwing covering the 

 disco-cellular nerniles is continued uninterruptedly to the costa. The markings of the underside 

 of D. dipxci are also identical in pattern, but the whitish bars are in D. dipcea still more reduced, 

 especially on the hindwing, where they are narrow and inconspicuous. It has a wide range, it 

 has been recorded from Bombay by Colonel Swinhoe, but he informs me that this is probably 

 erroneous. It occurs throughout the outer ranges of the Himalayas from Murree to Bhutan. 

 In Major Marshall's collection is a single male taken at Shillong in July. The female differs 

 from the male only in being larger, the wings broader, the apex of the forewing more rounded, 

 and the outer margin of that wing convex instead of concave ; all the markings larger and paler. 

 In Simla this species occurs in the summer, the females hybernating and appearing again 

 early the next spring. It is probably the next commonest species to D. durga. 

 Genus 92.-ST1B0GES, Butler. (Plate XXIV). 

 Stiboges, Butkr, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1S76, p. 308 ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 193 (1883). 

 " Allied to Abisara, aspect of Nymphidium [a South American genus]. Wings with 

 rounded outer margin broad, costal nervwe of forewing terminating abruptly at about the 

 middle of the costa, opposite to the end of the discoidal cell ; subcostal nervure with five 

 branches the last two forking to apex ; upper radial nervule &m\iiQA from the inferior margin 

 of the subcostal near its origin ;* lotver radial nearly equally dividing the disco-celhdars, which 

 are concave ; second and third median nervules emitted near together ; prcecostal nervnre of 

 hindwing short, oblique, directed backwards ; costal nervure short, str.aight, oblique, termi- 

 natin" at basal third of costa ; subcostal nervure forking beyond the end of cell, the upper 

 fork umnina close to the margin from the second third of costa ; radial nervtde emitted close 

 to the subcostal, reducing the upper disco-cellular nervule to a point ; lower disco-cellular long, 

 oblique, nearly straight; ....«^ and third median nervules emitted nearer together than the 

 first and second. Body, slender : eyes, prominent ; antcwuv, slender, submoniliformt ; palpi, 

 very small. Type, Stiboges nytnphidia." (Butler, 1. c.) 



t MoNiLiFOKM, constricted at the joints so as to resemUle a siring ui us , 

 SUBMONILIFORM, somewhat constricted, &c. 



