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tlie abdominal area on the hindwing thickly irrorated with lilacine-grey scales. 

 Forewing with a large subapical blue-black ocellus with a minute white pupil and a 

 narrow ocbreous-yellow and a black outer ring ; above which are the two white 

 apical oblique spots and below it two smaller white spots ; the broad oblique band 

 paler than above, and the discocellular brown streak broader. Hindwing with the 

 apical border yellow; with a short subbasal and an entire discal transverse 

 blackish zigzag line ; a large prominent subapical and also a subanal blue-black 

 ocellus, each with a minute white pupil and blue speckles, an ochreous-yellow and a 

 black outer ring, the yellow ring dilated inwardly ; between these two large ocelli 

 are three very small blue-speckled black spots. Female. Upper and undersides 

 paler than in the male ; markings the same. Body beneath ochreous-brown ; sides 

 of head, streak on sides of palpi, and forelegs beneath ochreous-yellow. 



Expanse, 4^ to 5 inches. 



Habitat. — N.E. India (Assam, Cachar). 



This is a larger insect than N. Grishna, with which it has hitherto been 

 erronously associated. The latter species (Crishna) is from Java, the type speci- 

 men, from which the original description was taken, being then in the East India 

 Company's Collection, and is referred to in the Catal. Lep. Mus. B.I. C. i. p. 221, 

 as Gyllo Grishna, but now deposited in the British Museum. N. Weshvoodii diflFers 

 from it, on the upperside, in the forewing having the yellow band somewhat broader, 

 the black apical spot being much larger and not encircled with yellow ; there are 

 also two small white spots above and one below this black spot, these small white 

 spots being, moreover, placed at an outwardly-obhque angle from the central dot in 

 the black spot, whereas, in Grishna, the white spot above and the one below the 

 black ocellus are both in a direct vertical line with its central white dot. On the 

 hindwing the pale yellow apical border is longer, and no ocelli are present, whereas 

 in Grishna there are two, and in some specimens three, distinct ocelli, the two upper 

 being of large size and a smaller one subanal. On the underside, the forewing has 

 the yellow band also broader, the discocellular brown streak being entire ; the apical 

 ocellus is four times the size of that in Grishna, with its adjacent upper and lower 

 white dots placed in position as on the upperside. The hindwing has the apical 

 ocellus also larger ; the subanal ocellus is also as large again as that in Grishna, and 

 there is no indication of the small anal ocellus. Other minor differences in Grishna 

 are that the latter species has a pale yellow dentate spot close to the costal vein 

 within the cell of the forewing, and in the hindwing there is a black dot within 

 the middle of the cell, whereas in Wesfwoodii there is a zigzag blackish subbasalhne. 

 Expanse of Grishna 3f inches. 



DiSTEiBUTfON.^ — " Mr. Wood-Mason took several males on Nemotha, 3300 feet 

 elevation, in Cachar, in September and October. There are specimens in the Indian 



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