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scaled cell area, discal elongate streaks, and subapical small linear spots. Hindwing 

 sullied pale cbrome-yellow ; tlie base sparsely irrorated with minute grey-black 

 scales ; a greyish-black marginal band enclosing ill-defined greyish-white marks. 

 Underside similar to the male, except that the black vein-borders of the forewing are 

 broader. Bodi/ above greyish-black, beneath greyish -white. 



Expanse, 2^ to 2| inches. 



Habitat. — Nepal; Sikkim ; Assam; Khasia Hills ; Burma. 



Distribution. — We possess specimens of the male from Nepal, taken by the late 

 Genl. Gr. Ramsay. Mr. H. J. Elwes records it as " not uncommon in Sikkim in the 

 lower valleys, from March to December " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 408). Col. C. Swinhoe 

 says it is " very common in the Khasia Hills" (I.e. 1893, 311). In Burma, Capt. 

 E. Y. Watson took "one male in the N. Chin Hills, at 7,000 feet altitude in Ma}^ 

 and a female at the foot of the Hills in April " (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1897, 668). 

 Capt. Watson also took a " single pair at Tilin in November and March, during the 

 Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90 " {I.e. 1891, 51) ; he also found it " common at 

 Beeling, Upper Tenasserim, from May to September, and at Paungadaw, Upper 

 Burmah, in October and November " (I.e. 1888, 25). Col. C. H. E. Adamsou " caught 

 only three specimens of this butterfly, in April, October, and December respectively, 

 two in Arakan, and one in Upper Chindwin " (List Burm. Butt. 1897, 41). Dr. L. 

 Eea obtained it at Moolayet in March, and in the Karen Hills. Dr. N. Manders found 

 it " widely distributed in the Shan States at low elevations, being abundant in the 

 Mone Valley " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 533). We possess males from the Upper 

 Mekong, Shan States, taken by Mr. R. Roberts, C.E. 



PICCARDA AGORANIS (Plate 635, fig. 2, 2a, S)- 



Delias Agoranis, Grose-Smith, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 266 ; id. Ehop. Exot. ii. Bel. pi. 1, fig. 7, 8, ^ 



(1893). Adamson, List Burm. Butt. 1897, p. 40. Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 156. 

 Delias Agostina subsp. infumata, Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1902, p. 174. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside white. Foreiuing with the costal border broadly 

 greyish-black scaled, these scales also extending along upper edge and end of the cell, 

 and from thence outward to the marginal blacker band, which latter is traversed by 

 a series of small narrow whitish spots. Hindiomg with a marginal row of ill-defined 

 black-scaled triangular spots, the three lower of which are most distinct. Underside. 

 Foreu-iiuj with black-bordered veins. The upper discal white intervening-streaks 

 short and widely separated from the white cell area. Hindwing pale lemon-yellow ; 

 the black marginal band broader and enclosing six broad white spots. 



Female. Upperside. Foreiuing fuliginous-black ; cell area and elongated streak 

 between the veins sullied greyish-white. Hindwing white with fuliginous-black 



