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narrow waved luiuilar fascia, which is bent upward from the subraedian to the 

 abdominal margin, this fascia is widest anteriorly, and its inner edge is also sometimes 

 somewhat sinuous; followed by a submarginal series of seven spots, each being 

 outwardly- edged by a white line and inwardly b}' pale rufescent-grey, the three 

 upper spots ai-e black, the upper one linear or obsolescent, the second and third 

 large, prominent, and somewhat broadly conical, the third being bordered on each 

 side along the vein by an orange line, the lower four are blackish-brown, sometimes 

 obsolescent, and longitudinally oval, the lowest being narrow ; beyond is a marginal 

 slender white line ; tail and its cilia white. Cilia from the apex to upper median 

 veinlet white. Underside bi'ighter rufescent-brown than on upperside, palest and 

 greyish tinged basally ; markings the same and all very prominent, the outer white 

 fascife purpnrescent-grey. Some specimens, probably dry-season, have the outer 

 markings, on both wings, on the upper and underside, much less defined or obsolescent, 

 the two upper black spots on hiudwing, only, being prominent. 



Female. Upperside. Ground-colour somewhat paler ; markings the same as in 

 male, except that the discal white baud on the forewing is usually broader and 

 always starting from the costal edge. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, (5" ? 2 to 2i-() inches. 



HAniTAT. — Nepal; Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Assam; Naga and Khasia Hills; Upper 

 and Lower Burma ; Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula. 



DiSTRiEUTiON. — Specimens from Nepal, taken by Gen. G. Ramsay, are in our 

 possession. " It is not uncommon in Sikkim. It occurs also in Assam, Sibsagar, 

 the Naga Hills, and Silhet " (de Niceville I.e. 321). "Met with in Sikkim at low 

 elevations only, from March to November" {id. Sikk. Gaz. 1894-, 149). Mr. G. 

 T. Dudgeon obtained it in Bhotan. Col. C. Swinhoe records it from the Khasia 

 Hills (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 291). Mr. W. Doherty obtained it in the " low country 

 of East Pegu, in March and April" (P. Z. S. 1891, 286). Col. C. H. E. Adamson 

 took it in the Arakan Hills, in April, and found it not uncommon near Bhamo in 

 April, May, June, and also in November" (List, 1897,28). Signor L. Fea took 

 specimens at Caboga, Karen Hills, in September. Mr. O. Limborg found it at 

 " Moolai, Upper Tenasserim, from 3000 to 6000 feet " (P. Z. S. 1878, 833). Dr. 

 N. Manders found it " more common in the Northern and Central Shan States. I 

 have never taken it at Fort Stedman or Koni, but have specimens taken at Banzam 

 and Thebaw, in the cold weather" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 526), 



Mr. ^y. L. Distant records it from Perak, Malay Peninsula {I.e. 449). 



SOSPITA CHELA (riate 399, figs. 2, 2a, 2b, (J, 2c. $ ). 



Alisara Clida, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Beugalj 1886, p. 252, \A. 11, fig. 7, cj; id. Butt, of India, 

 etc., ii. p S22 (1836). 



