260 NOCxriD^. 



at sides by black and with curved black striga in centre, small ; a 

 faint diffused oblique dark bar from middle of costa and indistinct 

 diffused oblique line from vein 3 to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 black, oblique and sinuous to vein 4, then incurved and slightly 

 waved ; subterminal line indistinct, slightly waved, pale on the 

 red-brown area, slightly defined on inner side by blackish on the 

 dark area, crossed by faint blackish streaks above and below 

 vein 5 ; a series of minute dark spots just before termen. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown ; a black postmedial line excurved beyond the 

 cell, with a silvery blue patch before it beyond the cell and some 

 silvery blue in submedian interspace, a silvery blue band beyond it 

 from below vein 6 to tornus interrupted at submedian fold and by 

 slight dark streaks on the veins beyond the cell ; an oblique silvery 

 blue bar from vein 2 to termen at vein 1 ; cilia white at tips below 

 apex. Underside of fore wing fuscous brown, a black discoidal 

 lunule and curved postmedial line defined on each side by bluish 

 grey suffusion ; hind wing with the end of cell and inner area 

 silvery blue, a black discoidal lunule, black postmedial band from 

 costa to submedian fold with a slight line from it to tornus and 

 followed by a silvery blue band, a slight curved silvery blue sub- 

 terminal line. 



Hah. Japan, Kikko {Maries), 1 S , Tokio (Marks), 1 6 , Yoko- 

 hama {Jonas, Manley, Strickland), 3 §, Oiwake {Pryer), 1 c? , 

 Kiushiu, 1 5 ; C. China, Da-laen-saen {J. J. Walker), 1 5 , 

 Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 5 ; W. China, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 c? , 

 Omei-shan, 1 ^ , Ni-tou, 1 d, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 J , Ta-chien- 

 lu (Pratt), 1 2 ; Punjab, Kasauli (Barrow), 1 c? , 1 $ , Dharmsala 

 (EfocMng), 2 $; Sikhim, 2 $; Assam (Badgley), 1 S, 2 $, 

 Shillong (Parish), 1 c? , 3 ? , Khasis (Parish), 1 6; Madras, 

 Wynad, 1 $ , ISTilgiris (Hampson), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Ceylon (Templeton), 

 1 2 ; Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 1 c? , 3 5 ; New Hebrides 

 { Matheiv), 2 c? , 4 $ ; New Caledonia (Layard), 2 J , 1 $ ; 

 Loyalty Is., Lifu ( Whitmee), 1 $ ; Fur, 1 $ , Viti Levu, 1 J , 

 1 2 , Matuhu (Challenger Coll.), 1 J . E^vy. 74-98 millira. 

 Larva. Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. p. 104, pi. 176. f. 5. 

 Black, the somites with transverse dorsal white bars, each 

 enclosing a black line ; stigmata ochreous ringed with black and 

 with some red round them, placed on white patches from near the 

 top of each of which arises a white hair ; an interspiracular 

 disconnected white line defined above and below by black stripes 

 with a white hair from below each spiracule ; a broad ventral white 

 stripe; 11th somite with dorsal black prominence; the extremity 

 orange above spotted with black ; head and somites with sparse 

 long white hairs ; all the prolegs present. Food-plants : Gt. 

 Himalayan Nettle and Boehmeria. 



