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ascending more narrowly and obsolescently, its upward course being comparatively 

 farther from tlie onter margin. Hinchoiur/ with a broader blue — or in some light 

 emeraldine-green — upper discal patch, which terminates hindward at the upper 

 median veinlet. Underside. Ground-colour much darker. Forewing very sparsely 

 scaled basally, the outer pale fascia being much wider basally, well defined, and 

 ascending broadly upward. Hiiulwing with the basal area only sparsely irrorated 

 with greyish-ochreous scales, the broader outer area being almost black, and the 

 snbmarginal red lunules being each disposed more obliquely inward. 



Female. Upperside less densely irrorated with green scales. Forevnnij with 

 the snbmarginal band as in the male. Iluuliving with the upper-discal patch as in 

 the male. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, S 4 to 5^, ? 4 to 4f inches. 



Habitat. — B. Nepal ; Sikkim. 



DrsTBiBDTioN. — We possess a male taken in Nepal by Gen. G. Ramsay. Mr. 

 H. J. Elwes recoi'ds it as an "inhabitant of the lower valleys of Sikkim, and occurs 

 from April to December in successive broods " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 428). Mr. L. 

 de Nic(5ville says it " occurs in Sikkim throughout the warm months at low 

 elevations, and the male is very common, the female very I'are " (Sikk. Gaz. 1894, 

 172). 



SARBARIA TRIUMPHATOR (Plate 488, tig. 1, c?). 



P(q)i/io Pohjclor, subsp. Iriumphator, Fruhstotfer, Soo. Ent. 1902, p. 66; id. Berl. Eut. Zeit. 1902, 



p. 185. 

 Sarbaria Qunesa, Swinhoc, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lonil. 1893, p. 312. 



Male. Upperside. Forewing differing from Sikkim Ganesa in the much less 

 defined, or entire obsolescence of the transverse snbmarginal green-scaled band. 

 Rindwing with a smaller, tripartite, bhie patch. Underside. Forewing with the 

 discal grey band broader. Hind wing with the cilial lunules narrower. 



Expanse, (S i^ to 5|- inches. 



Habitat. — Assam; Khasia Hills; Tonkin; Siam. 



DiSTKiiiUTiON. — We possess a male from Assam taken by Dr. G. AVatt. Col. C. 

 Swinhoe has examples from the Khasia Hills. Mr. H. Frulistorfer records it from 

 Shillong and the Khasia Hills. 



Our figure on Plate 488 is from a male frou) the Khasia Hdls. 



SARBABIA SIGNIFICANS (Plate488, eg. 2, (J). 



Paiiilio, Poli/ctor, bubsp. Sigirificans, Fruhstoifer, Soc. Ent. 1U02, p. 66. 



Male. Upperside. Forewing similar to the Assam S. trinmj)hafor, except that 

 it has a shining white-scaled spot at the posterior angle. Hindiring with bright 



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