298 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



regarded by all other butterflies (except the single Lethe Maitrya taken in the same 

 place) flying about, and were taken settled on nothing else. This species is also 

 not uncommon in the Narkunda and Bhagi forests in the neighbourhood of Simla, 

 at about 8000 to 9000 feet elevation, at the end of July and the beginning of 

 August. Col. A. M. Lang took several specimens there in 1865 and in 1882. Mr. 

 W. Doherty found it commonly there at the same season " (Butt. Ind. i. 167). Mr. 

 W. Doherty (J. A. S. Bang. 1886, 117) also records it from "Dbankuri, Khati, and 

 Dwali, in North-West Kumaon, at from 7000 to 11,000 feet elevation." 



ZOPHOESSA ELWESI (Plate 92, fig. 3, ^). 

 ZojjJwessa Jalaurida, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 320, pi. 8, fig. i,$. {Nee de N.) 



Upperside similar to typical Z. Jalaurida. Forewing with the transverse discal 

 pale macular band more irregular in its course. Underside differing in its general 

 I^aler colour. Forewing conspicuously pale olivescent ochreous-brown basally, with 

 prominently defined dark-brown cell bands and sinuous discal band. Hindwing 

 paler olivescent-brown, with distinctly sharper defined silvery-white lines, the upper 

 portion of the discal baud broader to its end beyond the cell, the anal ocellus being 

 single, not duplex as in Jalaurida. 



Expanse, 2 to 2\ inches. 



Habitat. — E. Himalayas ; Sikkim ; Bhotan. 



This is sufficiently different from its N.-W. Himalayan ally to be distinguished 

 as a local form, the differences above noted being constant in a number of examples 

 of both forms under examination. 



Distribution and Habits. — Mr. H. J. Elwes writes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 320), 

 " I found this very abundant all along the Singalelah Range between Sikkim and 

 Nepal, from 9000 to nearly 12,000 feet, in July and August. It is the most abun- 

 dant butterfly here, and frequents the open places in the forest, flying quickly in 

 dull and rainy weather, and settling on the paths, where several collect together at 

 any ordure. It settles on bamboo, and also rocks, where many might be found on 

 wet days and in the evening, and bottled like moths. I also found it on the top of 

 the Rishilah, in British Bhotan, at 10,000 feet, and my shikaris brought it from 

 Chumbi or Bhotan in 1884 and 1885. The female is comparatively scarce, and 

 hardly differs from the male." 



ZOPHOESSA MOLLERI (Plate 92, figs. 4, 4a, $ ). 



Zophoessa Molleri, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 445 ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 321, pi. 8, 

 fig. 3. 



Imago. — Male and Female. Nearest allied to Z. Elivesi. Upperside differs on the 

 foreiving in the absence of the pale cell-bar, in the more acutely sinuous dusky discal 



