2G LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



Wet- season brood (Plate 299, fig. 1, la, b, ^J ? ). 



Imago. — Male. TJpperside dark purpurescent- black ; markings deep yellowish- 

 ochreous ; cilia slightly alternated with greyish-white. Forewing with an elongated 

 discoidal streak extending along lower half of the cell and ending in a more or 

 less obtuse point half-way along the upper median veinlet, its upper edge indented 

 at end of cell; a transverse curved discal almost complete macular band, composed 

 of outwardly-oblique subapical, discal, and lower spots, the subapical being joined to 

 the discal by a slender more or less complete streak, and the discal joined to the 

 lower spot ; followed by a submarginal slender pale greyish-brown or ochreous- 

 brown line. Hindwing crossed by a moderately broad inner-discal band and a 

 narrow outer band, between which is a slightly-defined pale greyish-brown fascia, 

 and beyond by a similar submarginal line ; on the costa is a broad basal glossy 

 brownish-grey patch. Underside deep purplish-red ; markings, as above, pinkish- 

 white, the cell-streak and discal band of forewing having their edges inwardly 

 suffused with ochreous. Foretving also with the submarginal line and an inner 

 sinuous line purplish-grey. Hindwing also with a short basal fascia, a less-defined 

 subbasal fascia radiating along base of the veins, a medial discal sinuous band, 

 inner edges of the outer-discal band, and the submarginal line, all being purplish- 

 grey. 



Female. Upperside as in male, with the markings somewhat broader and 

 paler. Underside as in the male. Body and palj^i above black ; palpi and thorax 

 beneath, and forelegs greyish ; abdomen beneath and hind-legs pale greyish- 

 ochreous ; antennte black. 



Expanse, c? 2 to 2i^, ? 2-^q inches. 



Dry-season brood (Plate 299, fig. 1, c, d, e, (J ? ). 



Male and female. Upperside with the discoidal streak and discal bands 

 somewhat broader than in wet-season form ; the submarginal line more distinctly 

 ochreous. 



Expanse, c? 2j^, ? 2i-o inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Assam ; Khasia and Naga Hills. 



Distribution. — " This is a fairly common species in Sikkim throughout the 

 summer, and I have taken numerous males in October, sucking up the moisture 

 from damp sand in the beds of streams. Mr. J. L. Sherwill took a male at 

 Hulunguri in the Jorehat District, Assam, in March "(de Niceville, I.e. 95). " Not 

 uncommon in Sikkim by the river sides at from 1000 to 3000 feet elevation, from 

 April to October" (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 343). Colonel C. Swinhoe 



