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dark ferruginous, dark greyish ferruginous, dark olivescent-ferruginous, or olivescent- 

 grey, the transverse ordinary fasciae darker and generally broadly defined, their 

 outer borders washed with grey, and the entire surface is variegated with more or 

 less darker strigiB and pale ochreous mottlings, which latter tend to coalesce in 

 irregular patches ; veins alternately dark and grey speckled. Foreiuing with the 

 greyish border to outer discal fascia broadly dilated to the costa before the apex ; 

 with five small submarginal pale ochreous ocelloid spots more or less well-defined. 

 Eindwing with a submarginal series of similar, ill-defined, ocelloid spots. 



Female. Upperside paler and more olivescent in tint, the outer borders more 

 broadly-speckled with cinereous, the apex of forewing dark ferruginous speckled. 

 Forewing with a larger and more prolonged acute angle below the apex ; the 

 subapical black confluent-spots large and broad, the inner-part of the upper spot 

 projecting towards the cell and joins the dusky costal patch ; a lower small black 

 spot sometimes being also present between the middle and lower medians, the white 

 pupils large, the bright ferruginous outer-bordering ring broad and diffused, the 

 iipper ferruginous bar also broad ; there are also two white specks close to the apex 

 situated above and below the upper radial. Underside brighter ferruginous than in 

 the male, but identical in markings. Bochj beneath and sides of palpi dark ferru- 

 ginous ; legs paler ; antennae pale ferruginous, with a dusky club. . 



Expanse, 3 to 3n) inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. and E. Himalayas ; Assam ; Naga and Khasia Hills ; Upper 

 Burma ; Tenasserim. 



DisTEiBUTiON. — We have examined and verified specimens of the wet-season 

 form from the N.-W. Himalayas, possessing examples of both forms, as well as both 

 sexes of the dry-season form from Kashmir, taken by the late Capt. Bayne Reed. 

 Major H. B. Hellard obtained it at Simla and Masuri, June to October. Mr. W. 

 Doherty (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 120) records both the dry and wet-season forms from 

 the " Kali Yalley, 2500 feet, in Kumaon, both being rare." Mr. J. H. Hocking 

 obtained the dry-season form in Kulu. Mr. G. F. Hampson possesses the dry-season 

 form from RhaniKet, Kumaon, taken at 5000 feet, in July, and from Naini Tal, 4200 

 feet, in October, both taken by Col. A. M. Lang. It also occurs at Bhimtal, at 

 4500 feet in Kumaon. From the Eastern Himalayas we also possess examples of 

 both forms from Sikkim. Mr. H. J. Elwes records it from " Sikkim at fi'om 2000 

 to 4000 feet elevation, from April to November" (Tr. But. Soc. 1888, 329). It has 

 been taken at Sibsagar, Assam, at Shillong, in November, and in the Naga Hills, 

 Khasia Hills, and Silhet. In Burma, Major 0. H. E. Adamson took it in " Arakan, 

 the wet-season form in September and October, and the dry-season form in Arakan, 

 Bhamo, and in Tenasserim " (List. p. 9). Capt. E. Y. Watson, during the Chin- 

 Lushai Expedition of 1889-90, obtained the wet-season form at Tilin Yaw in 



