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of the cell, beyond whicli is a discal curved series of spots, the fourth (in the upper 

 median interspace) being the smallest, and the next the largest, followed by a 

 recurved submarginal row of more rounded spots, and then a marginal row of small 

 dentate spots ; below base of the median vein is an elongated more or less bitid 

 claviform streak. Eindwing with pale olivescent-white basal and discal interspaces, 

 followed by an outer discal series of spots, of which the two upper are large antl 

 elongated, and the two lower very small, beyond which is a submarginal row of 

 lunate spots, and then a marginal row of dots. In some specimens all the markings 

 are pale bluish-white, in others the outer rows of spots only are whitish. Underside 

 paler, the posterior and basal area of forewing and the outer border of hindwing 

 posteriorly being blue-black, the apical area of the forewing and basal area of hind- 

 wing more or less pale olivescent brown ; the markings, as on the upperside, olivescent 

 yellowish-white or bluish-white on the forewing. Body, palpi, and legs black ; 

 thorax and abdomen above fringed with grey hairs at the sides, spotted with white 

 beneath ; collar and front white spotted ; palpi with a basal white spot beneath ; 

 forelegs white spotted ; middle and hind femora white beneath ; antennae black ; 

 eyes reddish, hairy. 



Female. Upperside duller black; markings similar to the male, but larger, 

 more elongated, and all pale olivescent-white ; the bifid streak below the median of 

 the forewing coalesced with the lower submarginal spots. Underside as in the male, 

 but paler. 



Expanse, S 2^q to 2^o, ? 23^0 to 3 inches. 



Habitat. — Eastern Himalayas. 



Distribution. — "We possess two males and one female from Nepal, taken by the 

 late General G. Ramsay. " It also occurs in Sikkim. It probably occurs at low 

 elevations, but little is known about it. The males are rare, the females still more 

 so. Mr. G. C. Dudgeon reports that it is not uncommon at the foot of the Hills in 

 Daling"(de Niceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 135). Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Eat. 

 Soc. 1888, 341) says it is "quite rare in Sikkim, and apparently only found at low 

 elevations, though in Simla,* it occurs at from 4000 to 7000 feet." 



Mimicry. — This species is probably a mimic of the common Limnaine butterfly 

 Tirumala Limniace. 



PAEHESTINA ZELLA (Plate 201, figs. 2, 2a, b, 5 ? ). 



Hestina Zella, Butler, Trans. Ent, Soc. 1869, p. 9, fig. S- Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 240. 

 de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 58 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside differs from P. persimilis in the ground 



* P. Zella is probably the species here intended. 

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