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Tenasserim; Moulmein, Jane, Meetayi, Upper Tenasserim, January ; also taken in 

 Upper Burma not uncommonly, in the cold season, about Saging" (List, 1897, p. 28). 

 Mr. 0. Limborg obtained it on the road from Moulmein to Meetan, and at Hatseiga " 

 (P. Z. S. 1878, 832). Dr. N. Mauders took it in "most of the valleys of the Shan 

 States, Burma, being quite common in the Meigupon, Legya and Mone Valleys " 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 520). Mr. W. L. Distant records it from Perak, Malay 

 Peninsula (I.e. 4-48). Mons. G. A. Poujade records it from Siam (Nouv. Ai'ch. du 

 Mus. Paris, 3rd ser. p. 205), Mr. J. H. Leech has examples from Moupin, 

 W. China ; and Mr. P. Crowley has it from Hainan, taken by Mr, Whitehead. 



Of our illustrations on Plate 392, fig. 1, la, is from a Kashmir male, lb, a 

 Kulu female, Ic, d, e, a Sikkim male and female, and If, g, a Moulmein male and 

 feuiale. 



LIBYTHEA RAMA (Plate 393, figs. 1, la, b (? ? ). 



Zibi/ihea Exma, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loiul. 1872, p. .556 ; Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 68, pi. 33, 

 fig. 2, 2a (1881). de Niccville, Butt, of luJia, etc. ii. p. 302 (188(5). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark vinous-brown. Foreuriiu/ -with an ochreous 

 narrow streak extending along the lower part of the cell and joined to a broader 

 discal streak beyond ; an upper and lower, widely-separated, subapical, geminated, 

 paler ochreous or whitish spot. IHndwimj with a medial-discal narrow ochreous 

 band. Underside pale vinous-brown. Forewing with the apex pale pui-plish-grey 

 mottled with minute blackish strigas ; discoidal ochreous streak broader than on 

 upperside; subapical spots white. Hindwing mottled with minute blackish strigfe ; 

 medial-discal fascia pale purplish-grey ; a short oblique costal similar fascia, and a 

 less defined slender fascia along upper part of the cell. 



Female. Upperside as in the male. Underside. Forcwii/g as iu the male. 

 Uhidwiag more uniformly pale vinous-brown and mottled, the fasciae less apparent. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



HATJn'AT. — Ceylon ; S. India. 



Life History. — The following detailed description of the life history of this species 

 is by Mr. T. R. D. Bell, as observed by him in the Kanara District of Bombay: — 

 " Larva. — Feeds on Celtls tetrandra (Urticacice). At first sight the larva reminds one 

 rather of the larva of a species of Gatopsilia (Pieriuas). It is the same thickness from 

 segment 4 to segment 10, narrowing to the head and to segment 14 ; segment 2 is 

 about the same breadth as the head at the front margin, but is wider behind, and 

 has the front margin very slightly produced in the dorsal line; the anal flap is 

 rounded behiod, and its dorsal slope is nearly a quarter of a circle, the extremity 



