G6 LEPinOPTERA IXDICA. 



DODONA DIP^A (Plate 395, figs. 2, ia, S, 21), c, ? ). 



Dodona Dip.va, Hewitson, Exotic Butt. iii. Bod. pi. fig. ?> (186G). de Niceville, Bu't. of India, etc., 



ii. p. 311, pi. 24, fig. 116 S (1886). 

 TaxUa Bipxa, Butler, P.Z.S. 1886, p. 361. 



Ijiago. — Male. Upperside. Botli wings dark fuliginous-brown ; cilia slightly 

 cdo-ed with white. Forewinn with a white or sullied ochreous- white slender bar 

 across middle of the cell and continued obliquely below to the submedian vein, a 

 slightly broader broken macular band beyond tlie cell extending from the costa to 

 tipper median, two subapical spots beyond, two spots near bases of the median 

 interspaces, another spot in the submedian interspace beyond the lower of the 

 latter, followed by a snbmarginal row of smaller spots placed in four pairs out of 

 line, the lower pair being coalescent and less defined, and then a marginal row of 

 more or less posteriorly obsolescent dots. Hindivinfj with an ochreous-white very 

 slightlv perceptible inner-discal transverse broken line, an upper-discal slender more 

 defined broken band, and two marginal lunular lines, the latter interspaced 

 anteriorly by two black spots slightly edged with white, the anal lobe being also 

 black and edged with white. Underside paler, ochreous-brown. Forewing with 

 markings as above, but more prominent, the apical spots being glossy-white, the 

 lower dull and tinged with pale yellow, the discal interspaces being diffusedly 

 blackish ; there is also a basal and subbasal bar and a slightly-defined slender 

 discocellular streak. Hindiring crossed by a narrow basal and subbasal glossy- 

 white band, which join above the anal angle and then continue obsolescently up the 

 abdominal margin ; be^^ond is a glossy-white bar on middle of the costa, and an 

 interrupted lower-discal narrow band, followed liy two ill-defined snbmarginal paler, 

 but not glossy, lunular lines ; the discal and the two latter being bent sinuously 

 upward and are black edged above the anal angle; the submarginal lines enclose 

 two black spots ringed with white, and the subbasal band is outwardly-edged with 

 black, the costal and discal band being inwardly black-edged ; the anal lobe has a 

 large reniforra black spot edged with white. 



Female. Larger, the apex of forewing less pointed ; the outer margins convex. 

 Upperside with markings more prominent. Underside marked exactly as in male. 



Expanse, <S 1^^ to l^-^, ? Jj-(j to I^-q inch. 



Habitat. — W. and E. Himalayas; Naga Hills. 



Distribution. — " It occurs in Masuri, Nepal, and is somewhat common in 

 Sikkim in October and November at about 6U00 feet elevation" (de N. I.e. 311). 

 AVe possess examples taken by Capt. A. M. Lang in Masuri, 7000 feet, in June, and 

 from Bhotan, taken by Mr. G. H. Dudgeon in August. Examples from Sultanpnr, 

 Kulu, are in Mr. Leech's collection. CajDt. A. M. Lung took it at " Masuri, in May 



