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with the point inward, the two lower with the point outward, the lowest sometimes 

 ill-defined; a submarginal row of large pale-blue spots, the lower being broadly 

 quadrate or pyriform, the upper more rounded, and a marginal row of very small 

 spots. Two silky long sexual marJcs between tlie lower median and submedian vein. 

 Hindwing dark rufescent-brown, the costal boi'der bi'oadly glossy cinereous-white; 

 with generally three, sometimes only two, very small prominent white upper 

 submarginal spots. Underside paler rufescent-brown. Forewing with the costal, 

 cell, discal, and marginal rows of spots as in upperside, all prominent violet-white, 

 the upper discals being smaller and slender, the lower discal larger and oval, the 

 submarginals reduced nearly to the size of the marginals ; sexual marks brown, 

 posterior border brownish-cinereous. Hindwing with a small violet-white cell spot, 

 six small discal spots, three or four small upper submarginal spots, and a nearly 

 complete marginal row of very small white spots. Some white spots at base of the 

 wing. Body dark brown ; head, palpi, thorax above and beneath black, spotted 

 with white ; legs black, fore femora white beneath ; abdomen beneath with greyish 

 segmental bands. Female. Upperside. Foreiving with the posterior margin straight ; 

 the pale blue markings as in male, but generally larger, the discal row sometimes 

 lobular and with a lower streak above the submedian. Hindwing as in the male ; in 

 some specimens two small bluish-white discal spots are present. Underside marked 

 as in the male. Forewing with two elongated violaceous-white streaks above the 

 submedian vein ; posterior margin cinereous. 



Expanse, ^ 3^ to 4^, ? 3| to 4^ inches. 



HABrrAT. — N. B. India, Sikkim. 



Distribution. — This is probably the northern form of the preceding. Mr. L. 

 de Niceville (J. A. S. Bengal, 1881, 55), obtained it in Sikkim in October, it being 

 by no means a common butterfly. Mr. H. J. Blwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 302) 

 says it is " found not uncommonly in Sikkim up to about 3000 feet elevation from 

 April to October." 



All the specimens of both S. Hopei and 8. hinotata that we have examined are 

 from the localities cited. It is recorded by Major C. H. E. Adamson, in his Notes 

 on the DanaiuEe of Burma (1889), p. 14, that, what he considers to be S. Hopei "is 

 common in the North of Burma. I have caught it close to Akyab town, on the 

 coast, in March, and it flies commonly in April in the Arrakan Hill tracts as high as 

 2000 feet, and probably higher. In the hills about Bhamo it is also found rarely, 

 and I have one caught in Rangoon in March. The caudal appendages of the male 

 are of a light brown colour." 



STICTOPLffiA PYGM-SA (Plate 52, fig. 3, 3a, ^ ? ). 

 Stictoploea pygnuva, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 320. 

 Alhed to S. microstida. Smaller in size : forewing in both sexes with smaller 



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