130 LEPIDOPTERA IXDTCA. 



Expanse, <? Z^q\.o 4/,,, 9 4^ro to 5 inches. 



Habitat. — Assam ; Naga Hills ; Chin Hills. 



Distribution. — Col. C. Swinhoe has received manj^ specimens of both sexes 

 from Shillong and Cherra Punji, Khasia Hills (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 311). 

 Mr. W. Doherty obtained it in the Naga Hills (P.Z.S., 1891, 251). Capt. E. Y. 

 ^Yatson records this -species as being " seen one day in May, flying round Kennedy 

 Peak in the Letha range, Chin Hills, at an elevation of over 8000 feet"(Journ. 

 Bombay N. H. Soc. 1897, 671). 



TEINOPALPUS HIMALAICUS (riate 415, fig. 1, la, c? ? ). 



Teinopaljjus imperialis, var. Himalaicus, Koth?chikl, Nov. Zool. v. p. G02 (1898). 

 Teinopalp^is imperiaUs, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. LonJ. 1888, p. 121. Leech, Butt, of China, ii. 

 p. 509 (1893). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside similar to T. imperialis. " Does not always differ 

 from Assam specimens, but the orange-yellow area of the liindwing is mostly wider 

 in front, especially on the underside, and the black lunules at the outer side of this 

 area are thinner below." 



Female. Upperside similar to T. imperiaUs. " The gi'ey discal area of the 

 hindwings generally paler than in the Khasia Hills individuals, posteriorly more 

 extended yellow ; discal black lunules R' — M" thinner. On the underside the yellow 

 colour reaches from abdominal margin to beyond M^; there are few black scales 

 between M^ and M^ ; middle of disc much less shaded with black scaling than in 

 Assam form of imperialis, the black outer border of the discal area thin ; in the 

 Assam specimens the bars composing that border are generally heavy, the discal 

 area is more or less shaded black, often all black from R" down to abdominal 

 margin." 



Expanse, 6 3j%, ? 4^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Nepal; Sikkim ; Bhotan ; C. China. 



DiSTKiBUTioN AND Habits. — The type male was taken by Mr. Otto Milller, in 

 Sikkim, in April, and the type female by Dr. F. G. Pilchei^, in Bhotan, in May. 

 Both are in the Collection of Mr. W. Rothschild. Specimens were taken by General 

 G. Ramsay "on the peak of Nag Arjaon Mountain, western end of Valley of Nepal" 

 (MS. Notes). Mr. H. J. Elwes says: "This splendid insect is peculiar to Sikkim, 

 and is found only in the forest region from about 6000 to 10,000 feet elevation. 

 Unless its habits are known, it is most difficult to capture, on account of its 

 remarkably strong, rapid, and darting flight, and its habit of resting on high trees, 

 from which it flies only during a few hours of the raoruiug, during the rare intervals 

 of sunshine which prevail in these cloudy, damp, and rainy forests. The female. 



