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at once into the forest " (Tr. Bnt. Soc. 1888, 321). Specimens were in the late 

 Mr. W. S. Atkinson's collection from Darjiling and Cherra Punji. Major 0. H. E. 

 Adamson (Catal. of Bm'mese Butterflies, p. 8) I'ecords " a single specimen caught 

 in bamboo forest, in April, 1883, at 3000 feet, in the Arrakan Hills." According to 

 Mr. H. J. Elwes (P. Z. S. 1891, 265) " examples not differing from Sikkim and 

 Khasia specimens, except that the markings of the hindwing are somewhat paler, 

 were taken by Mr. "W. Doherty in the Karen Hills at 4000 to 5000 feet elevation." 

 We have examined specimens obtained by Signor Leonardo Fea at Cabopa in the 

 Karen Hills, in October, and at Meteleo, in September. 



BLANAIDA KHASIANA (Plate 93, fig. 2, ^J). 



Neope Khasiana, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 306. Marshall and de Melville, Butt, of 

 India, etc. i. p. 172 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Foreiulng with similar markings to those in B. 

 Bhadra ; the two streaks within the cell much less distinct, the one crossing the 

 middle almost obsolete ; the streak between the lower median and submedian con- 

 fluent with its terminal spot. Hindwing ochreous-yellow, with the costal border and 

 apical end of the exterior border brown, the immediate base of the wing ochreoas- 

 brown ; a large oval dark-brown spot beyond lower end of the cell, and a discal 

 curved series of six round spots decreasing in size to a minute spot above anal angle. 

 Underside similarly marked to B. Bhadra, except that on the forewing there are two 

 subapical ocelli, the lower one situated between the upper and middle median vein- 

 lets, the three sti'eaks crossing the cell are angled outward in the middle, and 

 the posterior margin is broadly ochreous. Hindwing with a regular transverse sub- 

 basal ochreous- white fascia, the dark spot beyond end of the cell smaller and more 

 prominent, the series of ocelli also smaller, their interspace on both sides paler 

 ochreous-brown. 



Expanse, 3f inches. 



Habitat. — Khasia Hills ; Naga Hills ; Eastern Burma. 



This is nearest allied to B. Armandii, Oberthilr, Etudes Entom. 1876, p. 27, 

 pi. 2, fig. 5, from Moupin, E. Tibet, specimens of which have been compared in 

 the collections of Mr. J. H. Leech and Mr. H. Grose-Smith. 



From the seasonal form ot Bhadra, above described, and figured, Khasiana differs, 

 on the upperside, in the markings of the forewing being smaller and posteriorly 

 ochreous in colour, the basal cell streak being obsolete ; and, on the hindwing, by 

 the brighter ochreous-yellow colour, smaller brown mark beyond the cell, and in the 

 more developed series of ocelli. On the underside, the pale ground colour is bright 

 ochreous. In the forewing the pale cell streaks are very narrow, angular, and the 

 middle one difi'erently positioned, the edge of the upper discal dark-brown patch 



