254 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



brown band is fairly broad, and between it and the middle ])anil is an orange-ochreous 

 band of five spots formed by the bro\Yn veins, all more or less scalloped on their outer 

 sides, the first three in an outwardly oblique line, the upper two a little outwards and 

 attached to two (sometimes three) rather elongated, orange, sub-apical spots from near 

 the costa a little inwards, an orano^e streak below the sub-median vein from the lower 

 end of the discal orange series, fining to a point near the base. Hindiring blackish- 

 brown, with an orange spot inside the cell-end, a discal band of three conjoined, 

 sijmewhut quadrate spots and a streak of ochreous hairs on vein 1. Cilia of both wings 

 Ijrown, whitish at hinder angle of forewing, orange-ochreous at tlie anal angle of 

 hindwing. Underside. Forercing blackish-brown, paler tinted and somewhat ochreous 

 in the apical and outer marginal areas, the orange-ochreous markings as on the upper- 

 side, lliivlunng paler, with more or less of a somewhat greenish tint, especially in 

 freshly emerged examples, the discal baud dark-edged, three or four obscure pale and 

 dark spots in the upper part of the wing. Antenna3 black, the shafc spotted witli 

 white on the underside, the club whitish beneath ; palpi, head and body above 

 coucolorous with the wings, palpi, pectus and abdomen whitish beneath. 



Female like the male, but the orange-ochreous markings are generally narrower, 

 and the brown spots in the upper part of the hindwing on the underside more distinct. 



Expanse of wings, $ ?, ly-^ to 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — North-West Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam, North Burma. 



Distribution. — The type came from the Himalayas. Moore records it from 

 Kangra, his types of msB'^a from Simla and Kunawar, Elwes from Sikkim, the Naga 

 and Karen Hills, Watson from the Chin Hills, de Ehe-Philipe from ]\Iasuri and 

 Lucknow, de Niceville from Chin Lushai, Manders from the Shan States, Doherty and 

 Hannyngton from Kumaon, Leslie and Evans from Chitral, Betham from the Central 

 Provinces ; we have both sexes from several northern localities in India and Burma and 

 from the Khasia Hills. 



PADRAONA SATRA, nov. 

 Plate SU, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, $ , 3b, $. 

 Tdiciita trojiica satra, Friihstorfer, MS. Iris, 1911, p. 39. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside with the colour and markings much as in P. dara. 

 Forewing orange-ochreous, base blackish-brown, a streak from it below the costa to its 

 middle, a discal band proceeding broadly from the blackish-brown base to the middle of 

 the wing, then abruptly straight upwards to the costa about a fifth from the apex, 

 throwing out an outwardly curved branch before reaching the costa, to the apex where 

 there is a small S(]uarish patch connected Avitli the rather broad outer marginal 

 blackish-brown band, difi'ering from P. dara in having more orange-ochreous and less 



