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broadly dull blue-black, the extreme edge of the exterior margin lunularly speckled 

 with bluish-grey scales ; the lower half of the cell, a streak beyond the cell, and the 

 inner interspaces of the median veins to the abdominal margin white, thus forming 

 a large white lower basal area ; glandular tuft of hairs within the cell pale brownish- 

 ochreous. Underside dull white ; veins black lined. Fovewivg numerously covered 

 with black strigEe, which are broadest and partly confluent on the basal area, par- 

 tially absent across the disc and more slender but less densely packed on the outer 

 area. Eindwing with the basal third and the outer border decreasing to anal angle 

 more densely covered with confluent black strigge, the upper discal interspaces 

 being ochreous-white, bare of strigee, and the lower interspaces broadly also bare, 

 but of a chrome-yellow colour; between the base of the internal and lower median 

 vein is a red patch. Clothing of body above and palpi tipt with bluish-grey; head 

 above and thorax beneath with white spots ; collar white ; legs above bluish-grey, 

 beneath brown ; antennae brown above, ochreous beneath. 



Female. Wings somewhat longer than in male. Upperside paler. Forewing 

 with the longitudinal streaks duller, less prominent, and more diffused. Eindwing 

 with the outer band traversed by broad transverse grey strigas. Underside as in 

 the male, but with all the strigas more slender and uniformly disposed. 



Expanse, <^ 3-ro, ? 3^) inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. 



This very peculiarly marked species is a mimic of the common Pierine butterfly 

 Delias iiasithoe. 



Distribution. — Specimens in Mr. 0. MoUer's collection, now in the possession 

 of the Hon. W. Rothschild, were taken in Sikkim from June to October. The late 

 W. S. Atkinson obtained it in Sikkim. Mr. L. de Niceville obtained it in " Sikkim 

 at low elevations, in October " (J. A. S. Beng. 1882, 56). Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. 

 Bnt. Soc. 1888, 331) records it as " not uncommon in the low valleys of Sikkim, 

 at 1000 to 2000 feet, from May to October." 



MIMADELIAS DEVA. (Plate 142, figs. 2, 2a, (J ? ). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing with much broader and paler grey 

 streaks between the veins, these being entire from the base of wing to the outer 

 border. Eindwing with a narrower outer marginal band, the upper portion being 

 composed of the broad black ends of the veins. Underside. Forewing whiter, with 

 similarly, but less dense black strigee. Eindwing with similar basal marks, narrow 

 strigose outer border, and bright ochreous medial and lower area ; red spot dis- 

 tinct. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing with similar broad but duller bluish-grey streak 



