1865.] FROM THE NORTH-WEST HIMALAYAS, 507 
submarginal streak from posterior angle, between which and the 
discal spots the space is ferruginous ; hind wing with a discal series 
of minute black dots: body and legs white; cilia white. 
Expanse 12 inch. 
Hab. Lower Kunawur. 
Very uncommon. It occurs in June, in richly wooded country, 
in Lower Kunawur, 7000 to 8000 feet altitude. The female is much 
darker brown. 
112. Taecua DERIA, n.sp. (Pl. XXXI. fig. 11.) 
Upperside purple-brown ; hind wing with the exterior margin de- 
fined by a narrow black line; tail black; cilia grey. Underside 
dark greyish cream-colour ; fore wing with a clear white transverse 
discal line, with black inner border, from before the apex, between 
which and exterior margin are two or more black spots ; hind wing 
with a similar transverse discal white line, extending from anterior 
‘to inner margins, between which and a marginal white line is a series 
of more or less distinct black spots, and two ocellated black spots, 
one at anal angle, the other beyond, the space between which is grey; 
cilia greyish. 
Expanse 12 inch. 
Hab. Upper Kunawur. ; 
I but once caught two or three of this species, on the steep bare 
mountain-sides over the Spiti River, altitude 11,000 feet, on a hot 
fine day ; they were flitting about the low shrubs. 
113. Dipsas opara, Hewitson. 
Dipsas odata, Hewitson, Ilust. of Diurnal Lep., Lyceenidee, pt. 2, 
pl. 30. f. 13, 14. 
Male. Upperside—basal half of both wings violet-blue ; the outer 
half dark brown, paler on the posterior wing; cilia white. Under- 
side grey white: fore wing with a pale linear spot closing the cell ; 
two small dark-brown spots near the middle of inner margin; a 
transverse rufous band beyond the middle, bordered on both sides 
with white; a submarginal band of pale brown terminating near the 
anal angle in two large black spots: hind wing with a spot closing 
the cell; a central transverse rufous band and a submarginal brown 
band, both bordered with white; two lunular orange spots near the 
base of the tail, bordered above and below with black; the outer 
margin brown. 
Female marked asin male, except that the whole of the hind wing 
is rufous brown. 
Expanse 1,4; inch. 
Hab. Upper Kunawur. 
This species I have caught in Upper Kunawur, in July and Au- 
gust, frequenting the orchards of the charming villages of that fine 
country, at altitudes of 8000 to 10,000 feet. They settle in great 
numbers ou the walnut-trees; sometimes on neighbouring apneots 
and poplars. As one strikes the boughs, troops of these little black- 
