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15. Syiubrenthia cotanda, Moore. 



S. cotanda, Moore, Proc. Zool, Soc, Lond., 1874, p. 569, pl.lxvi, fig, 9, male ; 

 idem, id., Lep. Ind., vol. iv, p. 114, pi. cccxxii, figs. 1, la, U, male ; U, Id, 

 female, wet-season form ; le, male, If, Ig, Ih, female, dry-season form (1899) ; 

 Lasgona hypselis, Doubleday and Hewitson (neo Godart), Gen. Diurn. Lep. 

 vol. 1, p. 191, n. 2, pi. XXV, fig. 1, male (1847) ; Lasgona liloea, Hewitson, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond., third series, vol. ii, p. 246, n. 4, pi. xv, figs. 5, 6, male (1864), 

 Symhrenthia sinis, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc,, vol. vi, p. 257 

 n. 10, pi. F, fig. 9, maZe (1891); S. hypselis assama, Fruhstorfer, Berl. Ent, 

 Zeitsch, vol. xlv, p. 21 (1900). 



Habitat : Throughout the Himalayas from Eastern Kumaon to Assam 

 thence southwards through Burma to the Malay Peninsula; Sumatra. 



Next to S. lucina, Cramer, this species is the commonest of the 

 genus occurring in India. It is seasonally dimorphic. Its transforma- 

 tions have not been discovered. Dr. Moore records it from " Kash- 

 mir " in Lep. Ind., but I believe the late Mr. W. Doherty was correct 

 in saying that it " does not occur further to the westward than the 

 Kali valley, which divides Nepal from Kumaon." The Lasgona Ulcea 

 of Hewitson, from " East India " is undoubtedly an aberration of the 

 male of this species. I have even more remarkable aberrations in my 

 collection from Sikkim. Mr. Fruhstorfer retains S. sinis, de Niceville, 

 as a distinct sub-species from the Malay Peninsula and the Battah 

 Mountains of N.-E. Sumatra, which is in my opinion incorrect, the 

 Malayan Peninsula form joining on to and being indistinguishable 

 from the Lower Burmese form, the two regions being conterminous. 

 Mr. Fruhstorfer also describes a S. hypselis assama, new sub-species 

 from the Khasi Hills and Assam, which cannot be separated from 

 S. cotanda. 



16. Symbrenthia sinica, Moore. 



S. sinica, Moore, Lep. Ind., vol. iv, p. 123 (1899). 



Habitat : Western China [Moore). 



I have not seen this species. 



17. Symbrenthia ottilia. Fruhstorfer. 



S. Jiypselis ottilia, Fruhstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeitsch, vol. xlii, p. 327 (1897). 



Habitat : Nias Island. 



I have not seen this species. 



18. Symbrenthia Hypselis, Godart. 



Vanessa hypselis, Godart, Enc, Meth., vol. ix, Suppl., p. 818, n. 5-16 (1823) ; 

 Lasgona hyptelis, Boisduval, Sp. Gen., vol. i, pi. x, fig, 3, male (1836) ; id., 



