172 LEPIDOPTERA INBIQA. 



at their inner end. Hinihving with a subbasal bi'oad crimson baud extending from 

 the costal vein to the submedian across basal half of the cell and traversed by black 

 veins, and its onter edge slightly bordered with grey scales ; beyond is an outer- 

 discal series of longitudinal posteriorly-lengthening grey-scaled streaks extending 

 from the costal apex to the lower median — of which the fourth streak enters the 

 apex of the cell, followed by a longer ochreous-yellow submedian interspace, and 

 then a greyish-white abdominal area. Underside. Forewing duller black, with the 

 grey markings more defined. Hinchuing deeper black, with a small ochreous-yellow 

 basal spot ; the crhuson subbasal band extending to the abdominal margin ; the 

 outer streaks more defined, the upper paler grey, the lower paler yellow. Body 

 above .greyish-black ; thorax clothed with grey hairs ; abdomen beneath greyish- 

 white ; thorax beneath, palpi, and legs black, grey streaked ; antennsB black, 

 annnlated beneath with grey.* 



Female. Upperside. Forewing similar to the male ; the cell-streaks medially 

 restricted, the two lower discal streaks shorter. Hinclrving similar to the male, 

 except that the crimson band is not outwardly grey scaled, and the outer streaks 

 from the lower subcostal to submedian are ochreous-yellow. Underside similar to 

 the male. 



Expanse, S ? S^- to 4 inches. 



Habitat. — Nepal ; Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Assam ; Khasias ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; 

 Malay Peninsula ; Tonkin. 



Distribution. — We possess specimens of both sexes from Nepal, taken by the 

 late Gen. Gr. Ramsay ; from Sikkim, taken in April and May ; Dhunsari, Assam. 

 Mr. L. de Niceville records it as " common in Sikkim, at low elevations, from April 

 to December " (Sikk. Gaz. 1894, 165). Mr. Ernest Swiuhoe has received it from 

 the Khasia Hills. Capt. E. Y. Watson obtained "a single specimen at Tilin, in 

 December, during the Ohin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90 " (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 

 1891, 51) ; he also records " a specimen taken in the N. Chin Hills, at 3,500 feet 

 elevation, in the rainy season" {id. I.e. 1897, (5(i8). Col. C. H. B. Adamsou obtained 

 it at " Bhamo, in November, and in the Attaran Valley, Upper Tenasserim, in 

 March" (List Burm. Butt. 1897,40). Signor L. Fea took it at Mateleo, Karen 

 Hills, in August and September, and at Bhamo in September. In the British 

 Museum Collection are specimens from Sikkim, taken by Dr. Pilcher ; Bhotan, taken 

 by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, and from E. Pegu, taken by Mr. AV. Doherty. 



* A variety of the male, from the Khasia Hills, iu Mr. W. Rothschild's Collection, has the markings of 

 hoth wings on the upperside more sharply defined, the hindwing having the broad subbasal band entiiel}- 

 ■white, instead of crimson, the anal interspaces from the lower median being also white, with the faintest 

 possible tinge of very pale yellow. On the underside of the hindwing the subbasal band and anal area is 

 also white. 



