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black spots and some irregular white scaling, and in the latter 

 three large black spots in succession from the base ; in some 

 specimens the apical two spots coalesce anteriorly, in others there 

 is also a red lunule near the apex of interspace 3 lastly, a 

 diffuse spot of blue scaling near apices of interspaces 6 and 7. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black, paler beneath. 

 $ Upperside : ground-colour duller black. Fore wing : the 

 udnervular streaks broader, paler, more prominent than in the J ; 

 the short red streak at base of subcostal vein broader. Hind 

 wing : a medial patch of white that consists of an elongate spot at 

 base of interspace 4, and a short streak that fills the basal half of 

 interspace 5, extended diffusely into the apex of the cell and 

 above into interspace 6 ; beyond this white patch is a discal series 

 of three small red crescentic marks in interspaces 2, 4, and 5, or 

 2 and 4 only, followed by larger red lunules in interspaces 2 to 5, 

 aimarginal^large red spots in 2 and 3, and a more or less large 

 rectangular red spot centred with black at the tornal angle ; cilia 

 touched with white in the middle of the interspaces. The lunular 

 red markings are very variable in number and are admarginal in 

 interspaces 4 to 6. Underside, fore wing : ground-colour dull 

 olivaceous black with the veins and internervular streaks velvety 

 black, a red patch at base of cell. Hind wing : ground-colour 

 black; markings more or less similar to those on the upperside, but 

 both the white and the red more extensive, the latter so disposed 

 as to form a patch at base of wing and a broad dorsal border below 

 the median vein and vein 3 ; in interspaces 1, 2, and 3 it is inter- 

 rupted bv large black spots. Antenna? black ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen dull dark ochraceous brown. 



E.vp. rf $ 127-141 mm. (5-1-5-52"). 



Hob. Sikhim ; Nepal ; Bhutan ; the hills of Assam ; Upper and 

 Lower Burma ; Tenasserim. 



In the Himalayas this insect is recorded from the'level of the 

 Terai to 6000 ft. In Burma I took it on Mooleyit at 4000 to 

 5000 ft., and Col. Adamson on the Taoo plateau at about 

 4000 ft. 



BOOTES GROUP. 



J $ . Fore wing elongate ; costa straight for basal two-thirds, 

 then widely arched to apex ; apex well-marked ; termen very 

 oblique ; tornus broadly obtuse ; dorsum short, not half the length 

 of the costa : cell elongate, more than half the length of the wing ; 

 vein 8 from basal third of 7, 9 from upper apex of cell, 10 and 11 

 from apical half of subcostal vein. Hind wing very long and 

 narrow; costa short, arched; termen verydeeplv scalloped, produced 

 at apex of vein 4 into a broad spatulate tail, curved upwards 

 from apex of vein 2 ; tornus well-marked ; dorsum straight ; 

 abdominal fold in $ slight ; cell comparatively short ; upper disco- 

 cellular much longer than middle. 



