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tone of purple-brown. Underside. — Foreiving dark purplish-brown, blackish clouded 

 between the discal markings on the fdrewing, and black on the sexual-uiark areas. 

 Hindwing brighter coloured, with all the markings more prominent. 



Expanse, 3j to 4 inches. 



Habitat. — Eastern Himalayas ; Asaam ; Khasia Hills ; Burma. 



DiSTRiBDTiON WITHIN INDIA^f Area. — It is entered in my list of Gen. Ramsay's 

 Nepal collection. According to Mr. De Niceville (J. A. S. Reng. 1881, 49) it 

 is " common in tbe Sikkim Terai and tbe wooded slopes below Chunabatti in 

 October ; subsequently jBinding it in the Terai in profusion, and as high as 6000 feet 

 in the Darjeeling Hills, it being apparently a forest-loving insect similar in habits to 

 C. tytia," and Mr. J. E. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 300) says it is "common in the 

 low valleys and found up to about 6000 feet, from March to December." It is 

 found in Silhet ; and " in the Khasia Hills in November." In Oachar, Mr. Wood- 

 Mason records it (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 345) as being taken on " Nemotha peak, 

 3634 feet elevation, in October." It occurs at Sibsagur in Assam, and Dr. G. Watts 

 (Ann. N. H. 1885, 299) obtained it in Muuipur. It is also entered in Mr. J. L. 

 Sherwill's recent list from the Naga Hills. In Burma it has been taken at Toungu 

 in Pegu. Mr. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 822) " obtained it in Upper Tenasserim between 

 Moulmain and Meetan, in the cold weather." Oapt. Bingham " took it m the 

 Thoungyeen forests in the Tenasserim interior, in the spring months (Butt. Ind. i. 

 43) and also in December." In Lower Tenasserim Messrs. Elwes and De Niceville 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 415) record it in their Tavoy list, as being "taken at 

 Ponsekai." Dr. J. Anderson (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 30) obtained it at " Mergui 

 in December." 



Distribution outside Indian Area. — Mr. Distant (Rhop. Malayana, 14) records 

 it from Province Wellesley, Malacca and Perak ; Penang ; Singapore. 



CADUGA TYTIA (Plate 15, fig. 1, la, b, c, (? ?). 



Euploea Tytia, Gray, Lepidopterous Insects of Nepal, p. 9, pi. 9, fig. 2, S (1833-46). 



Danais Tytia, Doubleday, List of Lep. in British Museum, i. p. 50 (1844-) ; Doubleday and Hewitson, 



Diurn. Lep. p. 93, pi. 12, fig. 4 (1847). Staudinger, E-^cot. Sclimett. p. 49, pi. 25 (1885). 



Distant, Khop. Malayana, p. 408, pi. 41, fig. 15, S (1886). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, 



p. 299. 

 Caduga Tytia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 235 : id. 1883, p. 249. 

 Danais {CJiittira) Tytia, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, &c., i. p. 42 (1882). 

 Danais Sita, Kollar, in Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. p. 424, pi. 6, c? (1844). 



Imago.— Male. Upperside : Forewing dark black; with greyish-white semi- 

 hyaline cell interspace, three small narrow spots on the costa before the apex, two 

 subapical elongated streaks, a lower conical spot below outer end of the latter, four 



