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more or less incomplete, subterrniual series of dusky spots in 

 interspaces 1 to 6 ; more often than not the spot in 5 entirely 

 absent ; a conspicuous chrome-yellow spot on the precostal area. 

 Antennae black, obscurely speckled with white ; head and thorax 

 bluish grey ; abdomen dusky black ; beneath : the palpi and 

 abdomen white, the thorax yellow. . Similar to the c? but 

 very much darker. Upperside : veins more broadly bordered 

 with black ; in many specimens only the following portions of the 

 white ground-colour are apparent : Fore wing : a broad streak in 

 cell and beyond it a discal series of streaks in interspaces 1 to 6, 

 9 and 10 ; the streaks in interspaces 1 and 3 very broadly inter- 

 rupted by the transverse black bars ; that in 6 more or less 

 obsolescent. Hind wing : a broad streak in cell, a discal series of 

 streaks in interspaces 2 to 7, and a posterior more or less obsoles- 

 cent subterminal series of greyish-white double spots. Underside : 

 similar to that of the rf, only the veins much more broadly 

 margined with diffuse black scaling. Antenna?, head, thorax and 

 abdomen as in the cf . 



Dry-season brood. J $ differ from the wet-season brood as 

 follows : c? Upperside, fore wing : the apical and, terminal black 

 areas much restricted ; veins concolorous ; black subterminal bars 

 less clearly defined; the lower one often obsolete. Hind wing : 

 the black markings on the termen represented by short triangular 

 irrorations of black scales at the apices chiefly of the anterior 

 veins. Underside : as in the wet-season specimens, but the yellow 

 much paler and somewhat ochraceous in tint. $ . Differs less 

 from the wet-season $ , but the black markings on both the upper 

 and under side are narrower and less pronounced, and on the latter 

 the yellow suffusion is paler and ochraceous in tint. 



Exp. rf $ 64-76 mm. (2-06-3-00"). 



Hob. Nepal ; Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Bengal ; Assam ; Upper and 

 Lower Burma ; Tenasserim. Found also in Siam and China. 



Var. phryne, Fabr. Can be distinguished from the typical form 

 as follows : <$ $ . Invariably smaller. Wet-season brood. Upper- 

 side fore wing : in addition to the subterminal black bars between 

 veins 1 and 2, and 3 and 4 another black bar above vein 5, 

 that joins on to the black on the apex and completely isolates the 

 short, narrow, preapical streaks of the ground-colour, that in the 

 typical form are merely continuations of the colour at the bases of 

 the interspaces in which the streaks lie. Underside: the above 

 noted black marking or bars very conspicuous, especially between 

 veins 5 and 6. Hind wing : the subterminal transverse series of 

 dusky spots in the interspaces replaced by a nearly continuous, 

 prominent, dusky black band, interrupted only in interspace 5. 



Dry-season brood. c? $. Upperside, fore wing: the black ^on 

 apex and termen much restricted, the lower subterminal black bar 

 generally absent ; the veins white, concolorous with the ground- 

 colour, so that the bar between veins 3 and 4 does not coalesce 

 with the black on the termen. In the extreme dry-weather broods 



