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fourth being larger and rounded, the fifth transversely narrower and laterally indented, 

 the sixth smaller and narrow ; followed by a submarginal row of ill-defined slender 

 excurved lunules, and then by a pale brownish marginal line. Hindwing crossed by 

 an inner discal bluish-white band and a narrower outer discal macular band, followed 

 by a submarginal pale brownish lunular line. Underside dark fuliginous-brown^ 

 with blackish intervening patches between the veins; markings bluish- white, as 

 above ; abdominal margin bluish-grey. Body and palpi above black : thorax and 

 abdomen with a bluish-white band ; body and palpi beneath, and forelegs greyish- 

 white ; middle and hindlegs pale brownish-grey. 



Expanse, <S ? 2i^ to 2i-o inches. 



Habitat. — Assam; Khasia and Naga Hills; Burma ; etc. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — A female from Assam and one from the Khasias is in Mr. W. 

 Eothschild's collection. Col. C. Swinhoe records it as "rare at Shillong, Khasias" 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 283). Col. C. H. E. Adamson obtained two males and one 

 female in Upper Burma in the cold weather, one being bred from a chrysalis found 

 in November" (List, p. 23). He also possesses a female taken in Chindwin in 

 September. Mr. W. Doherty took several males in the Karen Hills, East Pegu, at 

 4000 to 5000 feet elevation " (P. Z. S. 1891, 277). Col. C. T. Bingham obtained both 

 sexes in the Meethalauh Valley in December, and in the Yunzaleen Valley in 

 November. Mr. Moti Eam took specimen in Tavoy (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 428). It 

 also occurs in the Malay Peninsula. A male from Sumatra is in Mr, P. Crowley's 

 collection. Mr. L. de Niceville records it as " very rare in N.E. Sumatra " (J. A. S. 

 Beng. 1895, 418). A female from Nias Island is in Mr. P. Crowley's collection. 

 Messrs W. B. Pryer and D. Gator have taken both sexes in Sandakan, N. Borneo, in 

 February and July. Mr. E. Bartlett has obtained it at Sarawak. 



Genus THARASIA. 

 Jfhyma (sect. 1, part), de Mceville; Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 166 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing subtriangular ; costa arched, apex obtuse, exterior 

 margin slightly scalloped, posterior margin long; first subcostal branch 

 emitted at one-third before end of the cell, second at about one-eighth 

 before the end ; upper discocellular short, starting from the subcostal at 

 fully two-fifths from the base ; second discocellular inwardly-oblique, and slightly 

 angled ; cell open ; minute Androconia or scent-scales (as described on page 142) are 

 present chiefly upon the basal area of the upperside between the median and 

 submedian vein. Hindiving triangular; costa much arched, apes obtuse, exterior 

 margin very oblique, slightly convex and scalloped ; anal angle obtusely pointed ; 



