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with grey marks opposite the vein ends. Underside as dark as it is on the upperside. 

 Forewing with spots as above, and a very indistinct series of sub-marginal spots from 

 the apex becoming quite obsolete hiudwards. Hindwing with a rounded series of six 

 or seven white dots in the upper disc and a double whitish mark above the anal angle. 

 Antennae black spotted with white on the underside, the clul) white beneath, tip red : 

 palpi, head and body blackish-brown, palpi beneath and pectus greyish, legs dull 

 ferruginous. 



Female like the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1/^ to I^q inches. 



Habitat. — South India. 



Distribution. — The types in the B. M. came from the Nilgiris ; we have it in our 

 collection from the same locality ; Davidson, Bell and Aitken record it from Karwar. 



THORESSA MASONI. 



Plate 823, figs. 1, ^5, la, ?, lb, $. 



Pampliila masoni, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 842, pi. 52, fig. 5, $ (male ex crrore). 



Isoteinon mason!, Ehves and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. Hi, pi. 20, fig. i, ^ 



Watson, Hasp. lud. p. 85 (1891). 

 Halpe masoni, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. .58; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 109 : 



id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189.5, p. 435 ; id. idem, x. 1896, p. 681. Elwes and Edwards, 



Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p.. 268. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. U.5. 



Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 47. , . . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brown, with an ochreous tint, spots orange- 

 ochreous. Forewing with two large conjoined spots across the cell near its end, three 

 sub-apical small spots in an outwardly oblique straight line, the uppermost one minute, 

 sometimes absent, and four spots in an inwardly oblique straight line, the two 

 uppermost ones in the median interspaces sub-quadrate, the second the larger, the 

 third spot smaller than the first, the fourth spot transversely elongate, its lower end 

 touching the sub-median vein, all close together, divided from each other by the 

 brown veins ; the base of the wing with some greyish-ochreous hairs in the interspaces. 

 Hindwing with a discal ochreous band, divided into elongated .spots by the brown 

 veins, extending from interspace 4 to below the sub-median vein, the breadth of the 

 band varying much in different examples ; the abdominal space with greyish-ochreous 

 hairs. Cilia of forewing brownish, of hindwing ochreous. Underside. Forewing with 

 the costal space above the cell, the apical space, the outer margin decreasingly 

 and the hinder margin narrowly dull, dark ochreous ; the interior portion of the 

 wing black, the spots as on the upperside, the two lowest spots of the discal series 

 white and large, and somewhat diffused, the lowest twice as large as the one above 



