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submarginal chestnut-red lunular fascia and a dusky-brown marginal line, the anal 

 portion of the latter line being white and ending in a small narrow black anal spot ; a 

 large olivescent-ochreous ocellus between the subcostals and another ocellus between 

 the lower medians, the upper one with a minute white-speckled centre and slender 

 black outer ring and then a pale outer lunule, the lower ocellus having a white- 

 speckled centre, an inner transverse white streak and broad black lunule, an outer 

 slender black ring and then a slightly-defined pale lunule on its outer half. Body 

 above brown ; a streak on sides of thorax and front of head chestnut-red ; body 

 beneath and legs beneath ochreous-grey ; abdomen beneath with a glandular patch 

 of ochreous scales ; legs above brown ; fore tarsi reddish ; palpi brownish above, 

 whitish below ; antennee red. 



Female. Upperside coloured and marked as in the male, except that on the 

 forewing the oblique pale yellow band is much broader, and the lilacine-white sub- 

 apical spot larger. Underside also as in the male, except that the base is paler grey, 

 and on the forewing the yellow band is broader and paler. 



Expanse, c? A^^ to 4i^o, S 4>-^q to Sj^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Burma, Tenasserira ; Malay Peninsula. 



Distribution. — " Captain C. T. Bingham obtained specimens of this rare butter- 

 fly in the Thoungyeen forests and in the Donat Eange, Upper Tenasserim, in October 

 and April. It was also taken by Mr. Ossian Limborg, who collected near the same 

 ground, from December to April " (Butt. Ind. i. 308). " Mr. W. Doherty took several 

 specimens in March and April, at the foot of the Karen Hills, B. Pegu " (Elwes, 

 P. Z. S. 1891, 271). It also occurs at Malacca, in the Malay Peninsula, and in the 

 Island of Salanga. 



Allied Bornean Species. — TJiaiiria Aliris (Thaumantis Aliris, "Westwood, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1856, p. 176, pi. 17, ? ). Habitat. Borneo. 



Genus DISCOPHORA, 



Discophora, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 12, fig. 3 (1836). Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 329 (1851). 

 Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 35 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 74 (1882). Marshall and 

 de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 294 (1883). Staudinger and Scliatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. 

 p. 186 (1889). 



Mcera (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 51 (1816), 



Imago. — Male. "Wings large, short. Forewing broad, triangular ; costa much 

 arched, apex acute, exterior margin straight, slightly oblique, posterior angle obtusely 

 rounded, posterior margin straight ; cell extending to nearly half the wing ; costal 

 vein extending to one-fourth from the apex ; first subcostal branch arising at one- 

 fourth before end of the cell and anastomosed to the costal vein for some distance 

 before its end ; second subcostal anastomosed to the first at its end, four branched • 



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