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lunular, tlie last being bluisli-tinted and extending to the posterior angle, and then 

 a marginal series of dentate smaller-sized spots. Hinclwing with a submarginal 

 series of seven decreasing white spots, of which the upper are more or less angularly- 

 conical, and the lower lunular; each of these spots is surrounded by a blue-black 

 border, and each with a pale grey inner-bordering lunule, which is again inwardly- 

 edged more or less by a black line ; the extreme outer margin of the wing, 

 including the long, narrrow tail at the end of the lower and upper median veinlet, is 

 inwardly-suffused with blue. Underside. Both wings pearly-white. Forewing 

 with two superposed black spots within the cell ; a short transverse subbasal narrow 

 olivescent-ochreous black-edged band ; a transverse submarginal straight narrow 

 olivescent-ochreous band, which is outwardly-edged with a short black incurved 

 line between the veins, the lowest being lunular ; followed by a plain marginal 

 olivescent-ochreous band. Eindwing with a transverse narrow slightly-incurved 

 subbasal bright olivescent-ochreous band, which is anteriorly-edged on both sides by an 

 interrupted black line ; beyond is a submarginal row of black-edged narrow bluish- 

 grey lunules, inwardly-bordered by a narrow olivescent-ochreous band, and outwardly 

 by a row of black dots, followed by a marginal olivescent-ochreous band, which latter, 

 with the tails, is outwardly edged with bluish-grey ; a short black streak on the 

 abdominal margin above the lower submarginal lunule. Thorax and abdomen 

 olivescent-yellow, the middle of the thorax tinged with grey ; collar, head, palpi, and 

 sides of thorax beneath brown ; vertex and sides white spotted ; palpi beneath 

 white ; pectus, hind part of thorax beneath and abdomen beneath white ; fore 

 femora and tibise brown, tarsi white ; middle and hind femora brown above, tibiae 

 and tarsi white ; middle and hind tarsi with brown bands ; eyes reddish ; antennae 

 black. 



Expanse, (? 3f to 4, ? 4J to 4f inches. 



Habitat. — B.Himalayas; Assam; Naga Hills ; Burma; Tenasserim. 



Distribution. — The female of this butterfly is extremely rare. I have seen 

 but two specimens, one being in the Hewitson collection, and the other in Mr. "W. 

 Rothschild's, the latter from Sikkim, taken in July by the late Otto Moller. Males are 

 common in all collections. Mr. "W. Doherty (J. As. Soc. Beng., 1886, 124) records 

 observing it at Jhulaghat, on the Kali, in Kumaon. We possess specimens from Nepal, 

 Sikkim, Bhotan, and Assam. Mr. de Niceville records it from Sibsagar, in Upper 

 Assam. " A much commoner species in Sikkim in the spring than E. Do ion. Found at 

 low elevations only. It occurs from April to August, according to Mr. 0. Moller " 

 (de Niceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 147). It also occurs in the Naga Hills, Upper 

 Burma. It was taken by Mr. R. Roberts, C.E., on the Upper Makong, Shan States. 

 It occurs also in Upper Tenasserim and Tavoy. Major C. H. E. Adamson (List Burm. 

 Butt., p. 20) " took it in Tenasserim and Bhamo in April and August, about decaying 



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