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three jDortions as in Cliandica, but the upper portion smaller and narrower, these 

 white spots externally bordering the dark angular discal line ; beyond is a white 

 apical spot and some very slight indications of pale lower spots. Hindiuing with a 

 slightly-defined discal angulated brown line, and five outer pale-ringed black spots, 

 the two upper of which are the largest and obliquely oval in shape ; marginal border 

 brownish, marginal lines dark brown. Underside pale olivescent ochreous-brown, 

 the inner borders of the discal line, the triangular costal patch, and the marginal 

 lines dark brown. Forewing with a dark brown shghtly-angulated subbasal line, and 

 an angular discal white macular band, as on upperside, beyond which are six pale 

 ochreous-brown ocelli, the one between the middle and upper median being pushed 

 outward by the dentate white spot. Hindwing with a slightly-angulated subbasal 

 line, and an irregular-angulated discal line, which latter is acutely pointed and 

 extended upon the upper median veinlet ; six outer ocelli, the three upper and the 

 lowest with black centre speckled with white, the fourth and fifth paler but similar, 

 all are smaller and narrower than in Chandica and more or less reniform in shape, the 

 upper one being somewhat the largest. Body beneath, legs, and sides of palpi pale 

 ochreous. 



Expanse, c? 2f, ? 3^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Bhotan. 



Distinguishable from D. Chandica in the male having on the upperside the 

 exterior half of the hindwing red, the underside paler, the discal line on the forewing 

 more acutely angulated on the upper and middle median, but less so on the hindwing, 

 and on the hindwing the ocelli are all smaller, less prominently developed, but 

 similarly shaped. In the female, the upperside is paler and brighter coloured, the 

 macular white angular band composed of somewhat smaller portions, and the black 

 spots on the hindwing more defined. On the underside the ground-colour is similar 

 to that of Mekara, but more ochreous in tint than in Chandica, the subbasal line on 

 both wings is less regular than in Mehara but is also less angulated than in Chandica, 

 the white macular-bordered angular discal line on the forewing is more concave pos- 

 teriorly than in Mehara, but less so than in Chandica, and on the hindwing the discal 

 line is projected more outward upon the upper median than in Mekara, but much 

 less so than in Chandica ; in Distans these two lines on the hindwing are nearer each 

 other than in Mehara, and the discal line on this wing is much less incurved at its 

 anterior end than in Chandica ; the ocelli on the forewing are similar to those in 

 Mehara, these, in both species, being smaller than those in Chandica ; the ocelli on the 

 hindwing are also smaller and more regularly reniform in shape. 



It is probable that distans may be ultimately proved to be the dry-season form 

 of Chandica. 



Distribution. — There are specimens of both sexes, from Darjiling, in the 

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