78 LEPIDOPTERA INDIGA. 



north of Simla. Mr. Templeton has taken it in Masuri. It is common in Sikkira, 

 and the Indian Museum, Calcutta, has specimens from Silhet, Cherra Punji, Naga 

 Hills, Sibsagar in Upper Assam, and examples brought by the Daffla Expedition." 

 (de Niceville, Butt. India, ii. 121). In Sikkim it " occur,? throughout the warm 

 weather, at low elevations" (de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 1894, 139). Colonel C. 

 Swinhoo records it from the Khasia Hills (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 281). Major C. H. E. 

 Adamson obtained it in the " Arakan Hills in November and December" (List, 

 p. 16). Mr. W. Doherty took four males and one female in the " Karen Hills, 

 Burma, at about 4000 feet elevation " (P. Z. S. 1891, 273). Sigaor Leonardo Fea also 

 obtained it in the Karen Hills in October. 



Specimens from Western China, identical with this species, are in Mr. J. H. 

 Leech's collection. 



Habits op Imago. — Mr. de Nicevile observes that " it is a very pretty insect 

 on the wing, having a quick flight, but settles often on trees and bushes, always 

 with wings widely distended, and frequently on the underside of a leaf, and is easy 

 to capture" (Butt. India, ii. 121). The Rev. J. Hocking states that it "flies like 

 Papilio Pammon, following the line of hedge, and passing in and out between tlie 

 bushes" (P. Z. S. 1882, 239). 



Indo-Malayan Allied Species. — Stibochlona Goresia (Hypolimnas Coresia, 

 Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 46, figs. 3, 4 (1806). Syn. Aconthea 

 apaturina, Horsfield, Zool. Journ. v. p. 68, pi. 4, figs. 1, la (1830). Habitat. Java. — 

 Stihochiona Eannegieteri, Fruhst. Ent. Nachr. 1894, p. 305. de Niceville, J. A. Soc. 

 Bengal, 1895, p. 415. Habitat. Sumatra. — Stihochiona Bothschildii, Fruhst. Eat. 

 Nachr. 1894, p. 306. Habitat. Nias. — Stibochiona Schonbergi, Honrath, Berl. Ent. 

 Zeit. 1889, p. 165, pi. 2, fig. 4. Habitat. Borneo. — Stibochiona Persephone, 

 Staudinger, Iris, 1892, p. 451. Habitat. Borneo, 



Genus NEUROSIGMA. 



Neurosigma, Butler, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 615. de Niceville, Butt of India, etc., ii. p. 150 



(1886). 

 Acontia, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Entomology, p. 76 (1848) — preoccupied. 



Imago. — Male. Forewing somewhat elongate, subtriangular ; costa well arched, 

 apex convex, exterior margin oblique, even, posterior margin recurved from the 

 base ; cell fully half length of the wing, closed ; first subcostal branch free in 

 both sexes, emitted at one-third before end of the cell, second at a little distance 

 before the end ; upper discocellular very short, angled close to subcostal, middle 

 concave, lower recurved, radials from the upper anglts ; middle median veinlet 

 emitted at a shoi't distance before lower end of the cell ; submedian recurved. 



