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cell blackisli-brown ; outer marginal border blackish-brown, broadest at the apex and 

 hinder angle, its inner margin sinuous, curving inwards opposite the cell, then gradually 

 widening hindwards, a blackish-brown streak from the base running immediately below 

 the median vein, expanding gradually outwards, narrows at the cell end, then expands 

 into a patch outside the cell which reaches the costa, being somewhat constricted in its 

 middle, the sub-median vein heavily blackish-l)rown. JTindicinf/ blackish-brown, some 

 golden- ochreous hairs at the base and along the alxlominal area, a somewhat large oval 

 golden-ochreous spot at the end of the cell, and a somewhat broad, short, discal band 

 of the same colour, divided by the blackish-brown veins, from a little above vein 6 to 

 near the internal vein, with a thin golden-ochreous streak running from this end to the 

 margin. Cilia of forewing blackish-brown, of the hindwiug golden-ochreous. Under- 

 side orange-ochreous. Foreiving with the basal half of the cell and all the basal space 

 below it dark blackis]i-l)rown, this colour running narrowly to the cell end and along 

 the hinder margin, leaving a costal streak, the outer half of the cell, and a discal baud 

 from the costa orange-ochreous, curving well outwards, then inwardly oblique to near 

 the hinder margin, divided by the veins into elongate subquadrate spots which increase 

 in size hindwards, costal and outer marginal lines finely blackish-brown. Iliiulicliig 

 uniforndy orange-ochreous, darker than the forewing, the discal band as on the upper- 

 side, divided by the veins and finely edged on both sides with blackish-brown. Antennfe 

 black, the upper half of the shaft with minute ochreous dots on its underside, and a 

 smear of the same colour on the lower half of the club ; palpi ochreous and blackish- 

 brown ; head dull ochreous, with a transverse brown baud in front and another behind, 

 thorax with ochreous setiB, abdomen with indistinct similarly coloured bands ; on the 

 underside the palpi, body and legs are of the colour of the hindwing. 



Female. Ujiperside chocolate-browu, the markings dull brownish-ochreous. 

 ForeifiiKj with a large spot at the end of the cell, and a narrow baud divided into spots 

 by the veins, commencing very narrowly at the costa near the apex angled almost 

 acutely outwards, then inwardly oblique and almost straight to near the middle of the 

 hinder margin, gradually broadening hindwards. Ilindicincj with indications of a 

 small cell spot, and with a discal band, much narrower than the discal band of the 

 male. Cilia of forewing brown, of the hindwing ochreous-white. Underside paler and 

 duller in colour, markings similar". 



Expanse of wings, $ l-^ to lyV, ? lyo- to 2 inches. 



Larva feeds on the date and cocoanut palms. (Indian Museum Notes, v., No. 3, 

 p. 126, pi. 9, larva.) 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Bengal, Burma, Nikobars. 



Distribution. — The types came from Calcutta, it is a widely spread but rare 

 species ; our description and figures are from a male in our collection from the Khasia 

 Hills and two females from Maulmein in the Hancock Museum, Newcastle, taken by 



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