226 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



slender indistinct blackisli zigzag line, the space between tliem and along the 

 abdominal margin, -with the outer discal area distinctly irrorated with ochreous- 

 yellow scales. Female. Upperside as in the male, except that on the hindwing the 

 outer margin is strongly irrorated with yellow scales. Underside also as in the male. 

 Body and legs beneath paler ochreous-brown ; forelegs beneath ochreous-yellow ; a 

 streak on side of head and on sides of the palpi also ochreous-yellow ; antennge 

 reddish. 



Expanse, 3f to 4 inches. 



Habitat. — N.B. India (Sikkim; Bhotan ; Assam). 



Distribution and Habits. — " This lovely insect is one of those most charac- 

 teristic of the dark gloomy Oak and Chestnut forests of the Eastern Himalayas, and 

 occurs from the end of June till September at 7000 to 9000 feet. It flies up and 

 down the paths in dense forests, and settles on the ground or on tree trunks, when 

 it is not so conspicuous as it is on the wing. The female is either much rarer or 

 more seldom seen than the male ; but I once saw one flying rapidly over the bare 

 open top of the Observatory-hill at Jellapahar, which is a very favourite place for the 

 females of many forest-loving butterflies to fly on sunny mornings in the rainy 

 season, and, after a stiff race with a burly bombardier from the depot, who was a 

 regular collector on this spot, I netted the prize. I found the species much 

 commoner to the eastward, in British Bhotan than in Sikkim." (Elwes, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1888, 307). It also occiirs in Assam. 



NEORINA WESTWOODII (Plate 74, fig. 2, 2a, (? ? ). 



Neorina Crishna, apud Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 135, pi. xiv. fig. 34, 

 (1883). (nee Westwood.) 



Imago. — Male upperside rich dark purpurescent ochreous-brown ; with two 

 submarginal blackish broad lunular lines ; cilia of the forewing posteriorly, and of 

 the entire hindwing pale yellow. Forewing with a broad pale yellow sinuous-bordered 

 band crossing obliquely from middle of the costa to the posterior angle, the dis- 

 cocellular veinlet being slenderly brown lined; a large indistinctly defined black sub- 

 apical spot centred by a white dot, above which are two inwardly-oblique pure white 

 apical spots, and below it is another white dot placed at an outwardly-oblique angle 

 to the one in the black spot. Hindiving with a short pale yellow band bordering the 

 apical angle. Underside dark dusky olivescent ochreous-brown, palest on the apex 

 of forewing ; both wings with two prominent submarginal black sinuous lines ; the 

 inner submarginal line and the area within the submarginal line, on both wings, and 



