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(1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 647. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 329. 

 de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 186 (1894). Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 126 ; 

 id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 437. Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 293. 

 de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1898, p. 602. Hannyngton, id. xx. 1910, p. 370. 

 Ismene jaina vasundhara, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 59. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark chocolate-brown, with a vinaceous tint, darker thau 

 in fergussoni and not nearly so bright in colour. Forewing with a rather dull orange-red, 

 narrow, sub-costal streak which fines to a point about the middle of the wing ; a 

 rounded clump of deep black scales as in fergussoni, but larger, its lower edge almost 

 reaching the sub-median vein. Cilia grey. Hindwing without markings, (^ilia bright 

 orange-red, broadening hindwards and running up the abdominal margin for a short 

 distance. Underside paler than above, but darker and browner than in fergussoni, the 

 markings on both wings very similar, but the hinder marginal area of the forewing is 

 whiter, there is a rather prominent white squarish spot on the median vein, just inside 

 the end of the cell, and a short outwardly curved band of pale marks beyond it : on 

 the hindwing the orange streaks in the interspaces are narrower. Antennge black, 

 ochreous beneath ; palpi grey, with orange sides and black edges, last joint black ; 

 head and body above concolorous with the wings, thorax with greenish hairs, 

 abdomen with orange tip, on the underside the body and legs are orange-red, 

 abdomen with short blackish segmental lateral bands, tibisB with blackish stripe along 

 the upperside. 



Female. Upperside darker than the male, the basal area of both wings with dull 

 green hairs, the thorax covered with similar but longer hairs. Underside as in the 

 male, but the whitish hinder marginal space on the forewing is more restricted, and its 

 upper part is more or less connected with the sub-apical curved band of pale marks, 

 which are whiter and more conspicuous than they are in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ 2-^ to 2j'%, $ 2^% to 2-/o- inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Sylhet, Assam, N.W. Himalayas, Shan States, Karen Hills. 



Distribution. — The types came from Darjiling ; we have received many examples 

 of both sexes from Sikkim, Sylhet, and the Khasia and Jaintia Hills ; Hannyngton 

 records it from Kumaon, de Rhe-Philipe from Masuri, Elwes from the Karen Hills, 

 Manders from the Shan States, and Wood-Mason and de Nicevdle from Cachar. 



CHINESE AND SIAMESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Gecana formosana, Ismene jaina formosana, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 59. Habitat, Formosa. 

 Gecana margana, Ismene jaina margana, Friihstorfer, I.e. p. 60. Habitat, Siam. 



