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season brood. Underside mucli darker oclu'eous-red than in the dry-season brood, 

 markings narrower, as on upperside. 



Expanse, c? 3, ? %^q inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas ; Nepal ; Assam; Khasia Hills ; Cachar ; Burma; 

 Tenasserim. 



Distribution. — This is a somewhat rare species. " Mr. A. Graham Young has 

 taken it in Kulu. I found it sparingly in October in a wooded stream below 

 Kotgarh ; Oapt. A. M. Lang has taken it in Masuri in June and August" (de 

 Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. 168). We possess specimens of the dry-season form from 

 the Western Himalayas, and also both sexes from Nepal, taken by the late Major- 

 General G. Ramsay. The Rev. J. H. Hocking records it as " very rare in Kulu " 

 (P. Z. S. 1882, 241). " Mr. J. Wood-Mason obtained the wet-season form at 

 Irangmara, Cachar, during July ; it occurs also at Sibsagar in Upper Assam (S. B. 

 Peal), and in the Khasia Hills " (de Mceville, Butt. Ind. ii. 168). Both sexes of 

 the dry-season form from Assam are in Mr. P. Crowley's collection. Colonel 

 Swinhoe has received the wet-season form commonly from the Khasias, Shillong 

 and Cherra Punji. Colonel C. H. E. Adamson obtained it in the " Arakan Hills in 

 March, and at Bhamo in Upper Burma " (List, p. 22). Col. C. T. Bingham took it 

 in the Thoungyeen Valley, Upper Tenasserim, in May. Mr. Moti Ram obtained 

 "two females in Tavoy " (J. A. S. Bengal, 1887, 423). 



TACORiEA IDITA (Plate 25S, fig. 1, la, (J). 



Athyma Idita, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond. 1858, p. 16, pi. 51, fig. 3, cJ. Distant, Rliop. Malay, 

 p. 160, pi. 16, fig. 9, 10, S ¥ (1883). de Nic6ville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 168 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside purpurescent-black ; markings bluish- 

 white ; cilia alternated with white. Foretving with a narrow white clavif orm streak 

 ■from base of cell and a large triangulate spot beyond its end ; a transverse discal 

 excurved series of seven spots, the two upper elongate, the two next short and 

 small, the next larger and round, the two lower quadrate ; three small subapical 

 lunular spots ; a submarginal row of slender excurved lunules, the lowest being 

 most distinct, and a very indistinct marginal pale lunular line. Hindwing crossed 

 by an inner discal white band and a narrower submarginal row of seven spots, of 

 which latter the upper two or three are centred with a black dot ; a very indistinct 

 pale marginal lunular line. Underside purplish-red, with pinkish-white markings, 

 as above. Fovewing also with slender black cell streaks, a black ringlet-mark below 

 the cell, and black spots inwardly bordering the submarginal lunules. Hindtving 

 also with a curved subbasal white band, and two marginal rows of slender white 

 lunules ; abdominal margin bluish-grey. Body above black, base of abdomen with a 



