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with its veinlets and of the submedian, a patch below the cell, and the two outer 

 lower series of spots, as above, ochreous-yellow ; the two sets of spots between the 

 medians having an intervening black spot, and above the upper ochreous spot are 

 two more-or-less-developed subapical ocelU, the apical area being grey-speckled ; a 

 slender pale-bordered blackish marginal line. Hindwing with two irregular subbasal 

 series of yellowish-ochreous ringlet-spots with an intervening transverse zigzag 

 blackish-brown fascia, and a similar zigzag and angulated discal fascia, beyond which 

 is an outer recurved-series of eight round ocelli, the seventh or anal being duplex, 

 and the eight small and situated above the anal angle, the ocelli black with white 

 pupil and ochreous-yellow outer ring ; the basal markings bordered and the inter- 

 vening outer area clouded with grey-speckles. Bod^j dark brown ; abdomen beneath 

 brownish-ochreous ; legs ochreous-brown ; collar, sides of palpi, forelegs beneath, 

 and middle and hind femora beneath ochreous-white ; antennas reddish. 



Female. Upperside as in male, except that the markings are somewhat paler. 

 Underside as in male. 



Expanse, 2f to 3 inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. and E. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Col. A. M. Lang (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, 182) records having 

 " taken specimens of this insect in Lower Kunawur, at 7000 feet elevation, and at 

 Narkunda, near Simla, at about 9000 feet, in dark forests of oak, sycamore, and 

 horse chestnut, affecting shade and pitching on trunks of trees." In his MS. notes, 

 Col. Lang gives May and June as the months of capture. Major 0. H. T. Marshall 

 took it at Kajiar, near Chamba, in April (Butt. Ind. i. 171). Mr. A. Graham 

 Young obtained it on the Tihir Pass and the Jamere Mountain, Kulu. On July 21st 

 1872 " it was in swarms round an oak tree on the top of a stony ascent " (Butt. Ind. 

 171). Major Hellard, in his Notes, records its capture at Simla in July. Mr. "W. 

 Doherty (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 117) "took it at Khati and at Kapkot, inKumaon, at 

 from 7000 to 8000 feet; rare." According to Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 

 321) it was " not rare on the Singalelah Range between Sikkim and Nepal at 9000 

 to 11,000 feet, in July, and common on Tendong, and in British Bhotan, near Riki- 

 sum, in August. It settles on ordure in the paths, and when disturbed flies quickly 

 into the forest, but returns in a short time to the same place. Mr. 0. Holler also 

 notes its occurrence in March." 



BL AN AID A PTTLAHOIDES (Plate 94, figs. 2,^). 

 Neope Fulaha, Ehves, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 265. 



Male. Upperside with the basal area of both wings paler, and the outer area 

 more dusky, than in typical B. Piilaha; all the streaks and spots larger, broader, 



