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patch very prominent. Underside oclireous, with the fasciae and other markings 

 similar to those in male D. Zal. Female. Upperside paler ochreous-brown, externally 

 and between the markings dusky-brown. Forewing with the three transverse rows 

 of ochreous spots larger than in male, the discal row being much larger, ver^' 

 prominent, and slightly paler, the dusky-brown cell dots and discocelliilar spot 

 present. Hindioinrj with a complete discal row, and two submarginal rows of much 

 larger paler ochreous spots, and outer lunular border. Underside paler than in male; 

 crossed with fascije as in D. Zal, the basal area also being speckled with transverse 

 brown strigje, the two small ocelloid spots on hindwing as in D. Zal. 



Expanse, S 3^,, ? 4:{^y inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. 



The male of D. spiloptera is distinguishable from the same sex of D. Zal, by 

 the difference in size, shape, and colour of the spots on the forewing ; the female also 

 differing from that sex of D. Zal, in these spots being larger, both the inner and 

 middle series being erect, and wide apart at their upper end. The type specimens, 

 from which our descriptions and figures are taken, are now in the possession of the 

 liouble. Walter Rothschild, who has kindly lent them for this purpose, and were 

 taken in Sikkim by Mr. Otto Moller's native collectors, in the middle of March, 

 1887, at about 2000 feet elevation. 



Our illustrations of this species, on Plate 154, fig. 1, la are taken from the type 

 specimens of the male and female, which have been kindly lent for this purpose by 

 the Ilonble. Walter Rothschild. 



Indo-Malayan allied DiscoPHORAS. — Discophora Celinde (Pap. Celinde, Stoll, 

 Suppl. Cramer, Pap. Exot. v. pi. 37, figs. 1, la, (? (1790). Herr.-Sheeffer, Exot. 

 Schmett. ii. figs. 5, 6, S (1853). Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, pi. G, 

 fig. 6, ? ; pi. 7, fig. 11, a-h, larva, etc. (1829). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. 

 p. 211, pi. 6, figs. 5, 5a, larva and piqxi (1857). Staudinger, Exott. Schmet. i. p. 

 190, pi. 63, <S. Sy>i07njws — Pap. Menetho. Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 83, ? 

 (1793). Jones, Icones, V. pi. 61, ?. Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 30, fig. 1, ? (1800). 

 Disc. Menetho. Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 45 (1869). Pap. Aristides, Fabr. 

 Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 80, ? (1793). Both sexes of this species (Celinde) were taken, 

 and the larvas bred, in Java, by the late Dr. Horsfield, the males agreeing with the 

 figui'e by Stoll, and the females with the type specimen of Me itei ho, in the " Linnajau 

 Cabinet," in the possession of the Linnaean Society of London, a label upon which 

 latter specimen states that, Jones' figure (from which Fabricius' description was 

 taken) was made from this identical specimen. The Javan female has the ochreous 

 band on the forewing broad only at its upper end (from the costa to the upper 

 median), below which are two inner-discal small spots and two outer lunules, 

 followed by the submarginal row of five lunular patches and the marginal lunules. 



