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anteriorly, longest interiorly, and the two outer series macular ; the set between the 

 median and submedian broadest and most connected. Hindiuing with a broad 

 divided-streak within the cell, and three outer series of similar-coloured streaks 

 between the veins, the fourth or outer series being more or less obsolete. Under- 

 side. Both wings marked as on upperside, except that all the markings are more 

 prominent and somewhat broader ; both wings with the outer row more transversely 

 linear ; also with an outer-marginal slender interrupted line ; and the forewing also 

 having some slender streaks along the costa. Thorax above clothed with glossy 

 virescent-grey hairs, its front with orange-red hairs ; abdomen above brown ; body 

 beneath yellowish-white ; legs and palpi blackish ; sides of palpi and collar white ; 

 antennas black, annulated with white. 



Expanse, 2^ to 3;^ inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. and E. Himalayas; Assam; Cachar ; Burma. 



Distribution and Habits. — " This is a somewhat local insect, nowhere very 

 common. In the Kangra District, Mr. Hocking (P.Z.S. 1882, 235) records that it 

 has been taken at Jatingri, but is very local and rare. In Kumaon, Mr. E. T. 

 Atkinson obtained it in wooded lowlands, and Major C. F. L. Marshall has taken it 

 in the neighbourhood of ]Srauai Tal. It occurs in Nepal and Sikkim, and also in the 

 Ivhasia Hills in the autumn. In Cachar, Mr, Wood-Mason took it on Xemotha in 

 October, and in Silhet. Oapt. C. T. Bingham found it in Upper Tenasserim in the 

 lower Thoungyeen forests from March to May. It apparently only occurs in the 

 mountainous parts of North-East India, and at low elevations " (Butt, of India, i. 

 174). Mr. L. de Niccville (.J.A.S. Bang. July, 1885) records the capture of a 

 " female in Sikkim, in October, at 3200 feet elevation." Mr. H. J. Elwes writes 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 322), "I never saw this insect myself in Sikkim, but Mr. 

 Mollcr obtained it at 2000 to 4000 feet ; and Mr. Gammie found it abundant in 

 British Bhotan at 6000 feet, in June. At Cherra Punji, in Khasia, I found it com- 

 mon at 4000 feet, on the edge of the forest, and beat it from bushes by the path. 

 Its flight is not strong, or quick, but dodging. The female seems rare, but Mr. de 

 Niccville caught it at 3000 feet in Sikkim, in October." Dr. N. Manders (Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1890, 519) obtained a single male in the neighbourhood of Bernardmyo, 

 in the Shan States, Burma." Signer Leonardo Fea obtained it in the Karen Hills 

 in May and October. 



Genus RHAPHICERA. 



Rhaplikem, Butler, Ann. Nat. Ilist. 1867, p. 164 ; But. Mo. Mag. 1868, p. 19G ; Catal. Satyr. Brifc. 

 Mus. p. 158 (1868). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 175 (1883). 



Imago. — Foreioing subtriangular ; costa arched, apex bluntly pointed, exterior 

 margin slightly oblique and even, posterior margin straight ; costal, median, and 



