160 LEPIDOPTERA IN DIG A, 



side of tlie forewing and tlie larger one on tHe hindwing sometimes slio-w througL. on 

 the upperside. Body beneath, palpi, and legs pale olivescent-brown. 



Expanse, $ If, ? 2 inches. 



Det-Season Beood (Plate 55, fig. 1, c. $). 



Male and female. Larger than the wet-season form. Upperside somewhat 

 paler, the apical oblique band on the forewing whiter in colour, and broader. Under- 

 side also paler, especially from the base of the wings, and of an ochreous-brown 

 tint, the transverse discal line of the basal area more sharply defined and outwardly 

 edged with diffused lil3,cine-grey; the marginal border much paler ochreous. 

 'Forewing with the oblique apical fascia lilacine- white and broadly diffused externally ; 

 ocelli indicated by minute white dots. Hindwing with the ocelli also minute, the 

 second, third, and fourth upper being indicated by white dots. 



Expanse, <S 2}, ? 2f inches. 



Habita.t> — S. India (Nilgiris, Trevandrum, Travancore) ; Sikkim ; Assam ; 

 Khasia and Naga Hills. 



Distribution. — On the Nilgiris, Mr. Gr. F. Hampson obtained it at 3000 to 5000 

 feet elevation in heavy forest ; not common, August and March (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 

 348). Mr. H. Fergusson took it in the Ashamboo Hills, Travancore, not uncommonly 

 in March and May at 3000 to 4000 feet (Butt. Ind. i. 106). The dry-season form 

 has been taken in Travancore at 1500 feet in April. In Sikkim, Mr. de Niceville 

 obtained it in October at 2000 feet (Butt. Ind. i. 106). Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Ent. 

 Soc. 1888, 304) says it is " not uncommon in the hot valleys of Sikkim up to 3000 feet 

 during the greater part of the year." It is also recorded from Assam, the Khasia and 

 Naga Hills. In Cachar, Mr. J. Wood-Mason (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 348) says " one 

 male was taken near Silcuri in August, and another on Nemotha Peak in September.'' 

 In Burma, Dr. K Manders (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 517) records the capture of a single 

 specimen in the Shan States near Thibaw in February. Captain Bingham took it 

 on the Donat range in Upper Tenasserim in January and October (Butt. Ind. i. 106), 

 and Mr. 0. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 825) obtained it at Ahsown; and Moolai 3000 

 to 6000 feet. Major C. H. E. Adamson (List of Burmese Butterflies, p. 6) records 

 it from Moulmein and Arakan in April. Mr. "W. Doherty obtained the dry-season 

 form in E. Pegu at 500 to 2000 feet in March and April. Mr. W. L. Distant 

 (Rhop. Malay. 416) records the wet-season form from Perak, Malay Peninsula. 



YiRAPA Eadza (Plate 55, fig. 2, 2a, S, ? ). 

 Mycaleds Eadza, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 583, pi. 58, fig. 2, (J. 

 Virapa Eadza, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 156. 

 Mycalesis {Virapa) Eadza, Marshall and de Niccville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 105 (1883). 



Imago. — Upperside dark brown ; marginal lines indistinctly paler, with the inter- 



