70 LEPIDOPTERA IXDICA 



inner-discal band, a narrow broken medial discal band, and an outer-discal wedge- 

 shaped broad npper baud, followed by a subraarginal more or less defined double row 

 of luimlcs, the upper two prominently coalescent and bearing two black spots, the 

 lower inner lunules being inwardly bordered with diffused blackish lunules ; the 

 medial discal band is sinuously^ bent above anal angle and is then continued up the 

 abdominal margin ; anal lobe black, edged with white and inwardly again by a zig- 

 zag black line and an upper grey-speckled patch. Bod// above brownish-ochreous, 

 thorax tinged with olive-green ; collar and front edged with white ; palpi white, the 

 tip ochreous; body beneath and legs white ; middle and hind tibice and tarsi pale 

 ochreous ; antennae black, annulated beneath with white. 



Female. Wings broader ; exterior margins more convex. Upperside. Ground- 

 colour duller ; markings disposed as in the male, much paler ochreous, broader and 

 larger, and slightly coalescent at then' angles. On the forewing there is also a pale 

 ochreous slender discocellular streak, and a marginal row of small linear spots, the 

 two upper being larger and rounded. Underside paler ochreous-red ; markings 

 similar to male, but broader and larger. 



Expanse c? 1^% to li^o. ? li~o to 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Kulu ; Nepal; Sikkim; Silhet ; Khasia Hills ; Burma. 



Distribution. — This is a rare species in collections. General G. Ramsay 

 obtained it in Ts'epal. Mr. H. J. Elwes possesses "female specimens from Kulu" 

 (P. Z. S. 1831, 209). " Mr. Otto Moller obtained it in Sikkim at 1000 feet elevation, 

 in May, where it is very rare, but is commoner in Bhotan" (de Niceville, Sikk. Gaz. 

 1S'J4, 149). A specimen from Silhet is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; Col. C. 

 Swinhoe records it from the Khasia Hills (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 291). Mr. W. 

 Doherty found it " fairly common in the Karen Hills at 4000 to 5000 feet elevation. 

 It occurs also at Bernardmyo " (P. Z. S. 1891, 289). A female, taken in the X. 

 Shan States, in February, is in the British Museum. 



LODONA OUIDA (Plate 397, fig. 1, la, b, J, Ic, ? ). 



Lodona Ouida, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 771. HewitsoD, Exot. Butt. iii. part 57. 

 Bod. pi. 1, fig. 4, o, $, 6, ? (1866). de Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 311 (1886). Slaud- 

 inger, Exot. Schmett. i. pi. 87, <? (1888). Leech, Butt, of China, etc. i. p. 292 (1893). 

 Staudinger and Shatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 40 (1892). 



Taxila Erato, Boisduval, MS., Moore, Calal. Lep. Miis. E. I. Company, i. p. 243 (1857). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark ochreous-brown or brownish-black ; markings 

 dai-k yellowish-ochreous, of variable width. Cilia greyish-brown, edged with white 

 at the anterior and posterior angles. Forewing with three transverse discal equi- 

 distant yellowish-ochreous bands which are cut more or less distinctly by the black 



