208 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Habitat. — Sikkim?; Khasia and Naga Hills ; Silliet; Looshai Hills; Burma; 

 Tenasseriin ; Siam ; Malay Peninsula. 



DisTKiBUTiox. — Within our area Messrs. Marshall and de Niceville (Butt. Ind. 

 314) record "specimens from Sikkim, from the collection of the late Mr. Mandelli." 

 According to Mr. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 334) " it has never been seen recently 

 by Mr. Moller or myself from Sikkim." Colonel C. Swinhoe has received numerous 

 specimens taken in the Khasia Hills by the Rev. W, Hamilton's native collectors. 

 The late W. S. Atkinson obtained it at Cherra Punji. It is also recorded from Silhet. 

 Specimens are in Mr. P. Crowley's collection from the Lushai and Naga Hills. 

 Major C. H. E. Adamson (List, p. 10) obtained it at " Bhamo, Burma, and in Upper 

 Tenasserim, in woody places, during the cold weather." Capt. C. Bingham obtained 

 in the Donat Range in Upper Tenasserim in January, and others in the Thoung- 

 yeen forests in March and December" (Butt. Ind. 314). Mr. Ossian Limborg 

 (P. Z. S. 1878, p. 827) met with it above Ahsown in Upper Tenasserim in the cold 

 weather." Mr. Elwes (J. A. S. Beug. 1887, 419) records it from " Tavoy and 

 Ponsekai." The type specimen described by Fabricius is recorded from Siam, 

 now in the Bankhan Cabinet at the British Museum, which we have examined, 

 and is identical with our Indian examples. 



Distribution outside oue area. — Mr. Distant (Rhop. Malay. 429) records it 

 from the Malay Peninsula, where Capt. Godfery " took it in a shady nook near a 

 well. Its flight was very low; issuing from the surrounding jungle it would flit 

 alonof the path, or rest upon it for a while, and then return to the thickest shades." 

 Mr. W. Dohcrty obtained it at Perak (P. Z. S. 1891, 273). It also occurs at Penang 

 and Singapore; Nias (Kheil); Sumatra (Snellen); and Java (Horsfield). The 

 Java specimens (of which many were obtained by the late Dr. Horsfield) differ on 

 the underside in having both the dark transverse subbasal and medial fascia con- 

 spicuously broader, the latter fascia being also less sinuous on its outer edge ; the 

 submarginal line is also comparatively broader. If this Java form proves distinct, 

 it will take HUbner's name of Caneus. It is also recorded from Boi'neo. 



CLEROME ASSAMA (Plate 163, figs. 1, la, b, c, c? ? ). 



Clerome Assama, Wcst^yood, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1856, p. 184. Marshall and de Nict'ville, Butt. India, 

 etc. i. p. 314, fig. ? (1883). 



Imago. — !Male. Upperside deep brownish-ochreous or fulvous, uniformly tinted 

 throughout both wings. Sometimes the median pale spots of the underside are 

 slightly apparent. Underside much darker, and more or less ochreous-brown in tint. 

 Both wings crossed by a prominent black slightly-wavy subbasal and a medial discal 

 line ; an outer discal series of small pale yellow rounded spots, the penultimate lower 



