ARMAKDIA. LEPTOCIRCCS. 5 



8000 feet, and between the two places we got one or two every 

 clay. At Mas, in Manipur, I have taken worn specimens at 7500- 

 9000 feet. My Lepchas, who collected at Buxa in Bhutan, say 



there is no chance of another brood The butterfly drifts 



about among the tree tops, rarely descending to the ground ; the 

 crimson of the hind wings is not so conspicuous as one might 

 think, and if one loses sight of it for an instant, it is very hard to 

 make out again, its transparent dark grey wings being hardly 

 distinguishable among the shadows, and it is blown about by the 

 wind more like a dead leaf than a living insect. Its flight is much 

 like that of Hestia but less buoyant and circling, as might be 

 expected from its angular wings; nevertheless its resemblance 

 strikes one. Seen from above it must be much more conspicuous 

 and is no doubt a protected insect; at the same time its weak flight 

 may even add to its chance of escape as it certainly does with 

 ffestia, for it is impossible to calculate the direction in which it is 

 making. The whole body and wings give out a delicious odour, 

 which remains for some days after death. In some positions and 

 at some distance Ai-mandia looks like Daiiais tytia, Grray, which is 

 very common in the same places. Armandia hovers about flowers 

 like other Papilios. During rain it alights on a leaf and droops its 

 fore wings over the hind ones, thus covering the bright colours." 



The late Capt. Watson, who recorded this insect from the Chin 

 Hills in Burma, states that it is single-brooded. Mr. Doherry, 

 however, in the Xaga Hills, took several specimens in good condition 

 towards the end of September, so that apparently there is an 

 autumn brood in some localities. 



Genus LEPTOCIRCUS. 



Leptocircus. Swaimon, Zool. lllust., Ins. ii, 1833, pi. 106; Dbldftt/., 

 Westw. #' Hew. Gen. Di. Lep. i, 1847, p. 22 ; Moore, Lep. L\d. 

 v, 1901-1903, p. 132. 



Type, L. meyts, Zinken-Sommer, from Java. 



llanfje. Malayan Subregion ; Assam to Java. 

 d 1 $ . Fore wing : costa slightly arched at base, then straight, 

 the apex curved downwards ; termen straight ; torn us well-marked ; 

 dorsum straight ; cell narrow, short, not half length of wing, its 

 upper apex acute ; discocellulars, upper and middle oblique, sub- 

 equal ; vein 8 out of 7 beyond upper apex of cell ; 10 and 11 free, 

 10 from upper third, 11 from above middle of subcostal vein. 

 Hind uing long, produced at vein 4 into a very long, very narrow 

 tail ; cell remarkably short, about one-seventh of the dorsal margin ; 

 shoulder of costal margin at base strongly angulate, the apex of 

 the angle rounded. Antenna? long ; club broad, abrupt, spatulate ; 

 palpi short, closely approximate to the head, as in most of the 

 forms in the family. Male sex-mark present in one of the forms 

 (absent in the other), as a tuft of long radiating hairs at the base of 

 the dorsal margin. 



