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but broad and more defined exteriorly, and is brighter on the upper bar to the costa. 

 edge. Eindiving with two, or sometimes three, posterior submarginal prominent 

 minute black-edged ochreous white dots. Underside with the ground-colour either 

 purpurescent-cinereous or purpurescent-ochreous, both colours sometimes being 

 dark olivescent tinted ; more or less thickly speckled with black or dark brown 

 strig89 and scales, which are most densely packed and partly-confluent where 

 they form the ill-defined broad dark-blotched fasciae on the forewing and a blotched 

 cell and discal patch on the hindwing ; the normal dark transverse discal fascia on 

 both wings being indicated by an ill-defined brighter pale-edged line ; the posterior 

 border and triangular patch before the apex of forewing, and the costal border and a 

 submarginal fascicle on the hindwing, generally, being paler and unspeckled. Both 

 wings with a submarginal series of ordinary positioned more or less small black 

 blotchy-spots with ochreous-white pupil. 



Female. Forewing sharply falcate below the apex. Upperside somewhat paler, 

 the markings as in male, the outer margins more broadly-speckled with grey and 

 blackish strigas, the subapical black confluent-spots and continuous-patch less sharply 

 defined and larger, the ochreous bordering paler and generally of a purpurescent- 

 ochreous tint ; the strigge uniformly-disposed throughout, the transverse fasciae 

 narrow and slightly-defined ; the submarginal ocelloid-spots as in the male. 



Expanse, ^S^^o to S^^o. ?3i^o to 3ro inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. and E. Himalayas; Assam; Burma; Tenasserim; South 

 Andaman s, Malay Peninsula. 



Distribution. — Mr. W. Doherty (J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 120) records this 

 species from the " Kali Valley, 2000 to 4000 feet, in Kumaon." " It is found in the 

 Eastern Himalayas, and the Kbasia Hills, and through Burma to Tenasserim. In 

 Tenasserim it was taken by Capt. C. T. Bingham in the Thoungyeen forests in 

 April, in the South Andamans by Mr. F. A. de Roepstorff in August, and there are 

 specimens in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from the Daffla Hills, and from Sikkim " 

 (Butt. India, i. 258). Through the kindness of the Honble. "W. Rothschild we have 

 examined and verified Felder's types of male and female duri/oJana from Assam 

 and Cachar. We possess specimens from Sikkim and from Gen. Ramsay's Nepal 

 Collection. According to Mr. L. de Niceville (J. A. Soc. Beng. 1882, 56) it is 

 " common in Sikkim at low elevations in October." Mr. H. J. Elwes found it also 

 "common in Sikkim from April to November" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 329). Capt. 

 B. Y. AVatson (J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 36) obtained the dry-season form 

 during the Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90 at Tilin, from November to May, " it 

 being the commonest Melanitis met with." Mr. H. J. Elwes (J. A. Soc. Bengal, 

 1887, 417) records the dry-season form from " Sinbyoodine, Tavoy." Mr. Roep- 

 storff obtained examples of the dry-season form at Fort Blair, South Andamans. 



