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p. 137. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 457. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 89 (1891) ; id. Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1893, p. 46. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 316. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, 



Butt. p. 176 (1891). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189.5, p. 422. Elwes and Edwards, 



Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 134. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 3. Hannyngton, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. XX. 1910, p. 371. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 69. 

 Tagiades samhara, Butler, Eat. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 96. 



Tagiades cosmia, Pldtz, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. xxxvii. p. 54 (1884) (unpublished plate No. 1584). 

 Satarupa dohertiji, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 46 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. 



Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 134. de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



xi. 1898, p. 597. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black. Foreicing with a sub-costal indistinct whitish 

 streak, three small semi-hyaline white spots from near the costa in an even outward 

 curve, a larger oval spot outside the end of the cell, with another a little larger below it 

 near the base of the second median interspace, a moderately large quadrate spot 

 inwards below the base of the second median nervure, with a pure white spot attached 

 tu its outer upper end touching the lower inner end of the spot above it, its lower side 

 attached to a short white streak on the hinder margin. Hindwing with a broad pure 

 white band of nearly equal width from the middle of the costa to the abdominal 

 margin, l:)oth its sides slightly irregular, its outer side containing a series of eight 

 large black sjjots in interspaces 2 and upwards, the first six more or less in 

 pairs, half in and half out of the white band, the eighth spot well inside the white, 

 and another spot opposite on the upper edge of the white band. Cilia of 

 both wings black ; on the hindwing, with white spots at the ends of the interspaces. 

 Underside like the upperside, but in the forewing the white sub-costal streak is more 

 prominent, the three lower spots of the discal series larger and forming a continuous 

 band ; the white band of the hindwing is broader, the basal area merely suffused with 

 bluish-grey, nearly all the l)lack spots of the discal series being within the white band ; 

 palpi ochreous, pectus with ochreous hairs, thorax beneath marked with brown and 

 ochreous, legs ochreous ; head and thorax above black, abdomen with the basal third 

 and the tip black, the rest white. 



Female similar to the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? lyV to 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam. 



Distribution.- — The types came from Darjiling ; it is in our collection from 

 Eanikhet, Sikkim, and the Kha.sia Hills, where it appears to be common ; we have received 

 many examples ; Doherty records it from Kumaon, dohertyi is also from Kumaon, it 

 is in our opinion merely a slight varietal form of samhara ; the base of the hindwing on 

 the underside is paler than in samhara, and the tip of the abdomen is also whitish, but the 

 type in the B. M. is a very old specimen, and the tip of the abdomen looks very much 

 as if the black scales had been worn away ; it ditiers in no other respect from samhara. 



