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outwardly encompassed by a silvery line, and the three lower by a similar silvery 

 line. 



Female. Upperside paler. Both wings with the white bands as in the male. 

 Underside much paler ; both wings marked as in the male. Body beneath, legs, and 

 front of palpi brown ; side of palpi whitish ; antennaa reddish-brown, black-tipt. 



Expanse, c? 2^q to 2f-Q, ? 2-^q to 2^) inches. 



Habitat. — Hills of South India. 



Distribution. — " Not uncommon on the Western Slopes of the Nilgiris, at from 

 2000 to 3000 feet. A brood emerges at the end of September " (Hampson, J. A. S. 

 Beng. 1888, 350). "Mr. Harold Fergusson took it in May and June, at Mynall 

 in the Ashamboo Hills in Travancore, at an altitude of 2600 feet. It is also found 

 in the Wynaad " (Batt. Ind. 249). We possess specimens taken by Mr. Bour- 

 dillon in Travancore, at 2200 feet elevation in April, and at Mynall at 1800 feet, in 

 Auarust. 



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ZIPiETIS SCYLAX (Plate 119, figs. 2, 2a, b). 



Zipcetis Scylax, Hewitson, Exotic Butt. iii. p. 100, ZijJ. pi. fig. 7 (1863). Marshall and de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 249, pi. 17, fig. 62, $ (1883). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. pi. 83 (1887). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brown, paler externally and of a cinereous 

 ochreous tint. Both wings with two well-defined blackish marginal lines, both of 

 which are bordered by a pale cinereous-ochreous line ; cilia pale ochreous-cinereous. 

 Underside uniformly slightly paler brown ; both wings with three prominent mar- 

 ginal blackish pale-bordered lines. Forewing with an upper sub marginal row of 

 five small bluish-white pupilled ocelli, which are inwardly bordered by a slightly- 

 defined sinuous silvery line. Hindioing with a submarginal series of five very 

 prominent black bluish-white pupilled ocelli, two upper, and three lower, the upper 

 one being minute, the second very large, oval, and bipupilled, the third very large 

 and round, the two lowest small, all being encompassed within a broad silvery band. 



Female. Upperside and underside as in the male. Body beneath brown ; legs 

 beneath paler ; side of palpi pale ochreous ; antennas reddish-brown. 



Expanse, 2^-0 to 2i-o inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Naga and Khasia Hills. 



DiSTKiBUTiON. — " Rather a rare insect. Mr. Otto Moller has taken it at 

 moderate elevations in Sikkim, and Mr. L. de Niceville met with it in the Great 

 Kunjit Valley in October. It probably will be found to occur here and there in the 

 lower ranges on the north-eastern frontier of Bengal and Assam " (Butt. Ind. 

 249). It is also recorded from the Naga Hills, and we possess specimens from the 

 Khasia Hills. Mr. W. H. Irvine obtained it in Sikkim in April. Mr. H. J. Elwes 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 328) records it as " not a common species in Sikkim, and 



