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Imago. — Male. Upperside chocolate-brown. Foreiving with the disc slightly 

 paler than the rest of the wing, a bright ochreous- orange sub-costal streak from the 

 base to beyond the middle of the wing, fining to a point, a very large black, nearly 

 round patch of androconia, its upper edge nearly reaching the orange streak, its lower 

 edge touching the hinder margin. Hindwing with the costal space pale, whitish. 

 Cilia grey on the forewing, orange-ochreous on the hindwing. Underside paler brown, 

 tinted with ochreous. Forewing with the hinder marginal space broadly whitish, its 

 centre portion extending almost to the middle of the first median interspace ; the cell 

 obscurely streaked with orange, a curved short, somewhat obscure band from the costa 

 outside the cell, composed of orange streaks, a small basal orange patch. Hindwing with 

 the veins mostly orange-coloured, some orange streaks in the iaterspaces towards the 

 abdominal margin, a pale orange-ochreous short fascia in the disc. Cilia orange, broadly 

 so up the abdominal margin, a basal black spot ringed with dull ochreous. Antennae 

 black, with an orange stripe on the underside below the club ; palpi orange, with some 

 blackish-brown hairs on its underside, pectus orange, legs brown, streaked with orange, 

 tarsi orange ; top of head brown, with an orange streak on each side ; body brown above, 

 with some dull green hairs on the thorax, abdomen below orange, with black lateral spots. 



Female. Upperside brown, generally a little darker than the male, the orange 

 sub costal streak of the forewing somewhat duller in colour. Underside darker and 

 duller in colour than the male. Forewing without the broad whitish hinder marginal 

 space, the orange-ochreous fascia on Ijoth wings more obscure. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 2 to 2-i% inches. 



Larva, occurs in February, August and October, commonly in the Dun ; the larva 

 feeds on Hiptage madablota, Gsertn. Natural order, Malpighiaca?, and is about 1 " 2 

 inches long, head-case black, the sides dull vermilion- red, the red colour produced into 

 three rounded spots on each side, and joined to the red edging towards the middle of 

 the face ; the body with a broad dorsal black stripe, which is divided equally into three 

 portions by two very fine pale blue lines ; each segment bears laterally a large oval 

 black spot, and posterior to this are two fine narrow black lines, these three black 

 markings are crowned with rich chrome-yellow ; the second, third and fourth segments, 

 each bears just above the legs an additional small round black spot ; the underside of the 

 larva is pale greenish-white, the anal segment above bears two dull vermilion-red spots. 



Pupa, reddish-brown, spotted with black, covered with a white powder which 

 powder in figures 29d and 29f has been rubbed off ; there is a small round projecting 

 knob in the middle line of the face, (de Rhe-Philipe.) 



Habitat. — North India, Burma, Ceylon, Hong Kong. 



Distribution. — It is in the B. M. from Sylhet ; Watson's types are from Ceylon ; 

 we have received many examples from the Khasia and Jaintia Hills, and have it also 

 from Sylhet and from Rani Khet ; J. J. Walker records it from Hong Kong, Hannyngton 



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