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pure white — or very slightly tinged with palest yellow — and reaches the extreme 

 costal edge. Hindiviiig with the exterior margin more angular in the middle ; 

 marginal black spots somewhat larger. Underside. Ground-colour as in male ; the 

 white band on forewing, and the markings, as on upperside. Body and palpi above 

 brown ; collar and sides of front edged with white ; body and legs beneath paler 

 brown ; antennis black, annulated with white, club white tipt with red. 



Expanse, c? I ^^ to 2^\,?2 to 21^0 inches. 



Habitat. — W. and E. Himalayas ; Assam; Silhet ; Naga and Khasia Hills; 

 Burma ; Upper Tenasserim. 



DiSTKiBUTiON. — In the Western Himalayas this butterfly "occurs ia Masuri and 

 the Dehra Dhun. Mr. AV. Doherty took it at Askot, the Dhoaj, Eastern Kumaon, 

 at 4000 to 7000 feet elevation. It is common in Sikkim, in Buxa, Bhotan, and in 

 Assam, the Naga Hills, Cherra Punji, and Silhet. It was taken by Capt. C. T. 

 Bingham in the Upper Thoungyeen forests, Upper Tenasserim in March (de N. I.e. 

 321). We possess examples from Sikkim, the smallest specimens having been taken 

 in May and the largest in November. " It occurs commonly in Sikkim, at low 

 elevations throughout the warm months " (de Niceville, Sikk. Gaz. 1894, 149). 

 Col. C. Swinhoe records it from the Khasia Hills (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 290). Signor 

 L. Fea took it at Caboga, Karen Hills, in September (MS. note). Mr. W. Doherty 

 found it "abundant in the Naga Hills, also in East Pegu and the Bernardmyo 

 District" (P. Z. S. 1891, p. 287). Col. C. H. E. Adamson records it as "not 

 uncommon in the Hills north of Bhamo. A single pair also taken in the Eastern 

 Shan Hills at 4000 feet, in March " (List, lb97, 28). Dr. N. Manders obtained it at 

 " Bernardmyo, and in the Southern Shan Sta es" (Tr. Eat. Soc. 1890, 526). 



SOSPITA NEOPHRON (Plate 400, figs. 1, la, b, c, ^, IJ, ?). 



Sospita Neophron, Hewitson, Exotic Butt. ii. Sospi. pi. 1, fig. 3 (1861). 



Abisara Neophron, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 253, pi. 21, fig. 8, J ; Butt, of ludia, 

 etc., ii. p. 321 (1886). Distant, Khop. Malay, p. 449, pi. 36, fig. 6 (iSS6). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rufescent-brown, varying from a uniform dark tint 

 to a paler or more greyish-brown. Foreioing crossed by a discal outwardly-oblique 

 broad white band, commencing at or close to the costal margin, extending almost 

 straight, or in a very slighth'-recurved course, and decreasing to a point before the 

 posterior angle, followed by a submarginal straight obscure pale rufescent-grey line, 

 which is generally most distinct and whitish posteriorly, this line being sometimes 

 (probably in the dry-season brood) diffused and less defined ; beyond are marginal 

 lower slender whitish lines interspaced with black. Cilia brown, edged with white 

 posteriorly. Tlindwing crossed by an obscure pale rufescent-grey outer-discal 



