228 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Expanse, S If to 2J, ? 2f inches. 



Habitat. — Eastern Himalayas (Nepal, Sikkim ; Bhotan) ; Assam ; Lower 

 Bengal; Manipur; Burma; Tenasserim; Malay Peninsula; Singapur ; Cochin China. 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — Mr. L. do Niceville, in his MS. Notes on Pierinte, writes, "It is 

 very common in the Sikkim Hills, probably also in Nepal, the Bhutan Hills, through- 

 out Assam, inhabiting Silhet, Cachar, and Manipur, throughout Burma as far south 

 as Tavoy. It is very rarely found in the Plains of Bengal, I have two males taken 

 in Calcutta and in Bholahat, Maldah District, in February, both these specimens 

 being the extreme dry-season form named Maliana and imhecilis." We possess a 

 male from Nepal, taken by the late Gen. C Ramsay, both sexes from Darjiling, 

 Silhet, Assam, males from Manipur, taken by Dr. G. Watt, and a male from Calcutta 

 taken by Mr, W. S. Atkinson. In the British Museum Collection are both sexes of 

 the iret form from Sikkim, a male from Bhotan, both sexes from Shillong, Assam, 

 the Khasias, males from Manipur (Dr. Watt), a male from Salween Valley, Burma, 

 taken in November by Col. C. T. Bingham, and of tlie dnj form males from Sikkim, 

 Cherra Punji, Silhet, Assam, and Manipur. Mr. H. J. Elwes records it from Sikkim, 

 " the male is not uncommon at low elevations from April to Octobei', but the female 

 seems much rarer, and I have not seen more than two or three iu Moller's collection " 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 419). Col C. Swinhoe records it from "Shillong and the 

 Khasias" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 310). Dr. G. Watt obtained it at " Manipur and 

 the borders of Assam" (Ann, N. H. 1885, 341). Col. C. H. E. Adamson writes, 

 " Taken abundantl}^ in the Arakan Hills iu April, also in Tenasserim in December, 

 It has a habit of flying about the tops of trees, whence it descends to imbibe moisture 

 from the damp sandy beds of streams " (List, p, 48). Dr. J. Anderson obtained " a 

 single specimen of the female at Owen Island, Mergui, in January " (J. Lino. Soc. 

 Zool. 1886, 49). It is also recorded from Singapore (Weymer, I.e.), also from 

 Annam and Tonkin (Fruhstorfer, I.e.). 



H"XPOSCEITIA NARENDRA. 

 Plate 550. 



Apjiias Narendra, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 48, ^ > '(^- ^ep. of Ceylon, i. p. 1.34, 

 pi. .51, fig. 4, 4a cJ ? (1881), Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. Gil, ?. de Nic^ville, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Bengal, 1899, p. 216. 



Hiposcriiia Narendra, Hampson, J. As. Soc. Beng. 1888, p. 362. Ferguson, J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 

 1891, p. 444. 



Hyposcriiia Narendra, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1898, p. 393. 



Wet-season Brood (Plate 550, fig. 1, la S, lb, c ? ), 

 Male. Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with a black broad apical band. 



