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Imago. — Male. Upperside dark umber-brown ; on the fore wing almost black 

 within the cell area and discal interspaces. Cilia alternated with white. Foreiving 

 with a submarginal row of creamy-white large dentate spots, of which the upper 

 two and the fifth are inwardly placed, followed by a marginal row of much smaller 

 spots, the upper one of which is also placed obliquely inward before the apex ; the 

 upper spot of each series is also sometimes coalescent.* 'Hindwinrj with a lower 

 discal row of five creamy-white scaled elongated sagittate streaks and a few similar 

 scales more or less representing an upper sixth streak, followed by a submarginal 

 complete row of similar coloured large broad dentate spots, of which the anal one is 

 narrower and bright ochreous, these two series being either quite separated or the 

 outer points of the five discal series are coalesced to the submarginal ; beyond is a 

 marginal row of ochreous broad luuate spots, which latter are either entirely 

 separated from the submarginal, or are slightly coalescent, or obsolescent, except 

 the anal one. Underside ground colour, either dark or paler umber-brown. 

 Foreiving with two marginal rows of spots, as above, but whiter. Hinclwiiig with 

 two small white spots above base of the costal vein, the discal sagittate streaks and 

 submarginal spots, as above, whiter, the latter separated or more or less coalescent 

 with the marginal ochreous spots, Bodij blackish ; thorax in front, collar, frontal 

 tuft aud palpi, and thorax beneath, white spotted ; abdomen with a subdorsal and 

 two lateral rows of white spots ; antenna3 and legs black, foi'e femora beneath 

 white. 



Pemale. Upper and underside similar to the male. 



Expanse, c? ? 4 to 4|- inches. 



Habitat. — Western and Eastern Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Captain A. M. Lang obtained it in the '" Simla District, Masari, 

 aud Lucknow " (MS. Notes). Mr. J. H. Hocking records it from the " Kaugra 

 District. Flight very strong " (P. Z. S. 1882, 261). Mr. P. W. Mackinnon writes, 

 " not rare in Masuri in the spring and summer, and in the Dhun from the spring to 

 the autumn. The butterfly is dimorphic in both sexes, the streaked form with pale 

 markings, generally known as P. dissimilif^, and the dark fuscous unstreaked form, 

 known as P. Panope, both occurring in Masuri and the Dhun. The larva feeds, in 

 the Dhun, on Litsxa sebifera, IS. 0. Lauiinese" (Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1898, 

 p. 594). Mr. W. Doherty obtained it in the "Kali Valley at Jhulaghat, 2,000 feet 

 elevation in Kumaou " (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, 137). Mr. H. J. Elwes records 

 it as " common in Sikkim, from the plains up to 3,000 feet elevation, and occurs 

 'from March to November" (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 430). Mr. L. de Nicevilie also 



* 111 a male from Bhotan, an inner-discal elongated broad streak of whitirh scales is present in the 

 lower median interspace, and a less defined narrow streak in the subniedian interspace, both resembling the 

 male brands in a Euplccine butteilly. 



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