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the N. Chin Hills, Upper Burma, taken at 5500 feet elevation, in May, by Capt. 

 E. Y. Watson. Mr. L. de Niceville records it from Upper Burma (Journ. As. S. 

 Beng. 1889, 19 3). Mr. H. J. Ehves says, "it is found in Sikkim, rather commoner 

 than L. Mi/rrJia, at low elevations, from April to October" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 

 369). Mr.de Niceville records it as "ranch rarer in Sikkim than L. il///r/7(.a and 

 occurs at similar places and seasons" (Sikkim Gaz. 1894', 148). Mr. J. H. Leech 

 took examples in " W. and C. Cliina, and Japan" (I.e. i. 288). 



Hacits. — Mr. H. Pryer (Rhop. Niphon, p. 21) says, in Japan "there is only 

 one brood of this butterfly. It is the longest lived in the perfect state, of any of 

 the Lepidoptera. It emerges from the pnpa in July and lives nutil the following 

 May. It retires to its hybernaculnm soon after its emergence, and remains quiescent 

 until the following ^larch, when it is awakened by the first v?-arm day, and may then 

 be seen depositing its eggs on the unopened buds of the CtUis. The pupa is sus- 

 pended by the tail, after the manner of a Vanessa.^' 



Of our illustrations oa Plate 393, tig. 2 is of a male from Pangi, Busahir, 2a, 

 a female from Kashmir, and 2b, c, d, e, a male and female from Simla. 



LIBYTHEA LEPITOIDES (Plate 391, fig. 1, la, c, J). 

 Lihytlua Lepita, Hampson, Journ As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 3.5-5. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside with the ferruginous markings loss sharply defined 

 than in L. Lepita. Forewing differs in the cell-streak being broken into two 

 portions, and the contiguous discal spots somewhat smaller ; both subapical spot? 

 entirely white and smaller. IIlnilwiiKj with the medial-discal band similar. Under- 

 side. Foreirimj with the cell-streak broader than on the upperside and partly 

 broken, the basal portion being also much diffused ; the discal spot paler, subapical 

 spots white; mottled apex pale grey. Rindwing paler grey, with more thickly 

 mottled darker fasciiB, in some these fasciae are very prominently black ; a distinct 

 small patch of black scales is present on the disc in the discoidal interspace beyond 

 base of the upper median veinlet. 



Expanse l^-y to 2 inches. 



Habttat.— Nilgiris, S.India; Ceylon. 



Distribution. — "Nilgiris; Western Slopes, 3000 to 4000 feet elevation; rare; 

 February" (Hampsou, I.e.). Males, taken in the Nilgiris in February and October by 

 Mr. G. F. Hampson, and one from Kolar, Nilgiris, taken in November, are in the 

 Briti.sh Museum. Two males, from Koonoor, Nilgiris, are in Mr. F. du Cane 

 Godman's collection. A male, from Kandy, Ceylon, taken in i\Ia3-, 1892, by Col. 

 J. W. Yerbury, is also in the British Museum. Mr. L. de Niceville records this 

 species (as Tjepita) from Ceylon, three specimens being in JMr. F. Mackwood's collec- 

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