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some specimens tbe marginal end of the outer veins is also very slightly and 

 obscurely speckled with minute black scales. Underside white. Forewing with all 

 the veins broadly black bordered, tlie apical white streaks being more defined ; also 

 with more or less distinctly defined black longitudinal cell-streaks. Hindivincj with 

 all the veins narrowly black bordered ; the basal area to, or more or less beyond, the 

 cell, either pale or dark yellow, with a submarginal scries of bright scarlet spots 

 increasing in size from the apex, followed by a bordering outer marginal black 

 uneven band. 



Female. Upperside. Forcwincj greyish-black, with either moderately well- 

 defined white or greyish-white cell-streaks and narrow discal and apical streaks, 

 or all these streaks are obscurely defined and narrow, and are more or less nearly 

 obliterated by black scaling. Hindioing either white, with all the veins broadly 

 greyish-black bordered and widening outwardly and dilated on the margin, with pale 

 pink indications of the submarginal scarlet spots of the underside, or, dull-white, 

 with the veins outwardly more broadly but less prominently blackish bordered, their 

 ends more broadly diffused and with dusky-reddish indications of the spots of the 

 underside. Underside similar to the male, except that on the foreiuing the black 

 bordering to the veins is broader, and the upper apical streaks are sometimes yellow- 

 tinted, and on the hindwing the veins sometimes are broader black, the scarlet spots 

 broader, and the yellow filling np the entire discal area, and, more rarely, as in 

 Devaca, the costal interspace and the cell area is dark scarlet. 

 Expanse, c? ? 3 to 3|- inches. 



Habitat. — Kumaon ; Nepal; Sikkim ; Khasia Hills: Lower Bengal; Burma; 

 Upper Tenasserim ; Siam ; Saigon; Tonkin. 



DiSTEiGDTiON. — A male from Rhauiket, Kumaon, Western Himalayas, taken in 

 May, is in Mr. W. Rothschild's Collection. We possess both sexes from Nepal, 

 taken by the late Genl. G. Ramsay. Mr. H. J, Elwes records it as " not uncommon 

 in Sikkim, at low elevations, and up to 3,000 feet, from March to December" (Tr. 

 Ent. Soc. 1888, 408). Mr. L. de Niceville says " it is a rare species in Sikkim, and 

 occurs only in the low valleys and outer slopes of the hills " (Sikk. Gaz. 189l<, 166). 

 Col. C. Swiuhoe records it from the Khasia Hills (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 311). Mr. 

 de Niceville, " a single male taken in Calcutta in February " (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1885, 

 51). Capt. E. Y, Watson obtained it at " Tilin, in March, during the Chiu-Lushai 

 Expedition of 1889-90" (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, 61), and also at Rangoon {id. 

 I.e. 1888, p. 25). Capt. Watson also found it "common in the Upper Chindwin 

 District, Burma, in May; also obtained up to 6,500 feet in the Hills" (/.c. 1897, 

 668). Mr. 0. Limborg took it " above Ahsown ; Moulmein to Meetan, and at 

 Moolai, 3,000 to 6,000 feet elevation " (P. Z. S. 1878, 839). Col. 0. H. E. Adamson 

 remarks that it is " common in all Burma" (List, 1897, 41). Dr. L. Fea obtained 



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