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hindwards, leaving the uppermost spot, sometimes the next spot also, within the white 

 area ; palpi orange with black sides, pectus and thorax beneath with wliite hairs ; head 

 and thorax above blackish-brown, aljdomen white, with a blackish-brown tip ; legs 

 whitish, the tuft of hairs on the hind tibia white. 



Female like the male above and beneath, the white bands on both wiuo;s a little 

 broader. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? ^ to ly^o inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Chin Hills. 



Distribution. — The type came from Sikkim, our description and figures are from 

 Sikkim examples in our collection, and we have received many examples from the 

 Khasia Hills. Doherty records it from Margharita iu Upper Assam, and Watson from 

 tlie Chin Hills. 



DAIMIO DIVERSA. 



Plate 765, figs. 2, $ , 2a, ? , 2b, $ . 



Pterygospidea diverga, Leech, Entom. xxiii. p. 46 (IfriOO). 



Daimio nnrada, var. diBersa, Leech, Uutt. of China, etc. ii. p. 566, pi. 38, fig. 14, ^ (1893). 



Satarupa dlversa, Eiwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 132. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black, touched with a tint of brown, darker than any 

 other Indian species. FvreiL'lng with the usual five sub-apical dots, a very small spot at 

 the lower end of the cell, a larger and somewhat scjuare spot at the base of the second 

 median interspace, a fairly large quadrate spot below the cell spot, attached to a larger 

 purer white quadrate spot half inwards which expands hindwards ou to the binder margin. 

 Ilindir'nig with a pure white band with irregular sides which expands hindwards 

 to the abdominal margin, all the black spots of the usual discal series except the upper 

 two obliterated by the blackness of the outer band, the uppermost spot protruding a 

 little into the white band. Cilia of both wings black, touched with white at the tips on 

 the hindwing. Underside like the upperside, but in the forewiug the lower part of the 

 white liand is diffused outwards, exposing two black spots ; and in the hindwing the 

 two upper spots of the usual discal series are within the white band ; frons ochreous, 

 pectus and thorax beneath with white hairs ; head and thorax above black, abdomen 

 white, with a black tip, legs white, with black stripes, the tuft of hairs on the hind tiljia 

 white. 



Female similar to the male. 



Expanse of wings, ,? $ ly'o to l-j^ inches. 



Habitat. — China, Assam. 



Elwes records it from the Khasia Hills ; we have in our collection several examples 

 from Central China and from the Khasia Hills that appear to be identical ; it is a 

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