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area is confined to the outer half, the spots much paler and the lower whiter, or mostly 

 white, -with a pale ochreous-cinereous speckled-streak extending from the lower 

 outer spot to the base, and a much less defined narrow similar streak from the lower 

 discal spot. Hiiidwing with all the interspaces marked with transverse ochreous- 

 cinereous strigfB, these strigfe forming a more or less confluent longitudinal streak 

 between the veins. Underside also paler than in the male ; markings the same, except 

 that the strigse are much paler and wider. 



Expanse, c? 3n) to 3^%, ? 3^) to 4^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Western and Eastern Himalayas ; Assam ; Cachar ; Silhet ; Burma. 



This insect is an excellent mimic of the Euplceine butterfly, Trepsichrois 

 Linnoei, both the male and female resembling the corresponding sexes of the latter 

 butterfly.* 



Distribution. — It is common in the submontane districts of Northeim and 

 Eastern India, extending through Burma as far South as Tavoy (Butt. Ind. 273). 

 Mr. E. J. Atkinson records it "from Kali, Kumaon, on the western border of Nepal" 

 (Butt. Ind. 273). Mr. W. Doherty obtained it in the " Kali Valley, E. Kumaon, at 

 Balwakot and Toli, 2500 to 3000 feet elevation, which, compared with Sikkim speci- 

 mens, are more striated and speckled with white below, and have an irregular lino 

 of whitish spots round the outer disc of the hindwing above " (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 

 ] 20). We have specimens from the late General G. Ramsay's Nepal collection. 

 " Mr. L. de Niceville has taken it around villages in Sikkim at about 2000 feet 

 elevation, in October " (Butt. Ind. 273). Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 

 330) records it as " not rare in the low valleys of Sikkim, from the Terai up to 3000 

 feet, during almost every month in the year." " The India Museum, Calcutta, 

 possess specimens from Upper Assam, and from Silhet, and Mr. Wood-Mason took it 

 in Cachar in June and July " (Butt. Ind. 273). The late Mr. W. S. Atkinson took 

 it in Cherra Punji, and the late Mr. A. Grote obtained it in Silhet. Captain 

 E. Y. Watson's collection contained it from the Khasia Hills. " Capt. C. H. B. 

 Adamson obtained it in Akyab, and found it commonly in plantain gardens in 

 Moulmein in August and September " (Butt. Ind. 273). Signer Leonardo Fea 

 obtained it at Bhamo in November. "Mr. T. C. Hill took it in Tavoy in March ; 

 Capt. C. T. Bingham found it commonly in the Thoungyeen forests in the autumn 

 and again in April " (Butt. Ind. 273). Capt. E. Y, Watson took it at " Pounga- 

 dow, Upper Burma, in October, and at Beeling, Upper Tenasserim, in January " 

 (J. Bomba}' N. JI. Soc. 1888, 4). Mr. O. Limborg obtained it at '' Ahsown, in 

 Upper Tenasserim" (P. Z. S. 1878, 82G). 



• See Tol. i. pi. 35. 



