112 LEFIDOPTUBA IXDICA. 



times absent ; in the cell are two sLoi't upper white streaks, a middle streak, and a lower 

 streak, the tips of the two latter sometimes confluent. Some white spots at base of 

 the wing. Cilia alternated with white. Body black; thorax in front and beneath, 

 head and palpi white spotted ; a dorsal streak on thorax and femora beneath, white ; 

 abdomen with lateral and broad lower segmental pale blue bands. Female. Upper- 

 side paler, browner in tint, blue glossed externally. Both wings with all the markings 

 larger, whiter, and more prominent. On the forewing the lower discal spot is also 

 larger, with its anterior edge concave aud its posterior edge convex. On the 

 hind loing the upper discal spots are white and prominent, and within the cell are 

 three white streaks, the upper one shortest and sometimes broken, and each some- 

 times confluent at the tips; costal border glossy-cinereous. Underside paler brown, 

 marked as upperside ; the marginal markings violaceous-white. Foreioing with the 

 posterior border broadly brownish-white, the lower discal spot large and quadrate, 

 Hindioing with the upper discal markings broader and larger. 



Expanse, 3J to 3| inches. 



Habitat. — Eastern Himalayas. 



Distribution. — It was obtained in Nepal by G-en. G. Ramsay. Mr. De Niceville 

 captured " a single male in Sikkim at 2000 feet elevation, in October " (J. A. S. Beng. 

 1881,55). According to Mr. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 301) it is "a common 

 species in Sikkim up to about 3000 feet, from April to December." A female is in 

 Col. Swinhoe's Collection, taken in the Great Eunjit Valley in October; and a male 

 labelled Assam, which latter locality may, however, be incorrect. 



DANISEPA EHADAMANTHUS (Plate 39, fig. 2, 2a, b, J ? ). 



Papilio Bhadamanthus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 42, $ (1793). 



Papilio Diocletianus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 40, ? , (1793). Jones, Icoues, pi. 45, fig. 2. 



Banais Bliadamia et Dioclelia, Godart, Enc. Metb. ix. pp. 180-1 (1819). 



Huplcea Diocletianus, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 2, cJ ? (1869). Distant, Kliop. 



Malayana, p. 28 : pi. 4, fig. 4, 5, cJ ? (1882). 

 Salpinx Diocletianus, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 294 (1878); id. Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 



1877-79, p. 535. 

 I^icplma (Salpinx) Diocletianus (et BhadamantJius, part), Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, 



i, pp. 70, 71 (1882). 

 Danisepa Diocletianus, Moore, Proc. Zool, Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 296. 

 Euplma Bhadamanthus, Staudinger, Exot. Scbmett. p. 53, pi. 26, ^ (1885). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark indigo-blue black and brilHantly glossed with 

 blue in certain lights, as in D. Bamsayi. Foreioing with a somewhat narrower 

 white costal band across end of the cell, the white discal spots either absent, or some- 

 times one, in others two small spots being present between the median veinlets, the 

 eubmarginal spots generally entirely blue, and the lower small spots absent, the 



