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obsolescent dot ; across the disc ai'e two upper-discal outwardly-oblique pale 

 ocbreous-yellow broad spots, a very small outwardly-oblique spot below, two small 

 rounded inwardly-oblique supei'posed white spots which are outwardly placed above 

 and below the upper meilian veinlet, followed by three lower-discal broad quadrate 

 large ochreous spots, the lower being narrow ; beyond is a submarginal irregularly- 

 disposed series of small mai'kings, of which the upper are macular and pale 

 ochreous-yellow, the next a reddish-ochreous broken lunule, then a pale yellow short 

 lunule, and lastly two lower reddish-ochreous narrow lunules. Hindioing crossed 

 by a medial-discal broad pale ochreous-yellow band, and a submarginal reddish- 

 ochreous very narrow lunular band, between which is a very slender discal broken 

 sinuous line; base of wing with a slightly-defined pale yellow dot above the cell 

 and two very slender curved lines across the cell. Underside. Ground-colour pale 

 yellowish-ochreous ; the discal band, as above, ochreous-white ; basal irregular 

 markings dark ochreous-red narrowly edged with yellow, the veins basally also 

 yellow ; discal area medially clouded with dark ochreous-red and traversed by an 

 inner slender sinuous black-edged yellow line and an outer diffused yellow lunular 

 line, followed by two marginal slender black lines ; a medial series of lilacine-white 

 dots, the middle pair on the forewing being the largest and represent those of the 

 upperside. 



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

 Foreicing also with a small red spot beyond the cell. Hind wing also with an outer- 

 discal reddish-ochreous slender lunular line. Underside similar to the male. Bodg 

 dark olivescent-brown ; palpi above black ; body and palpi beneath and legs pule 

 ochreous-white ; antennas black above, whitish beneath, tip ochreous. 

 Expanse, c? 2, ? 2^q inches. 

 Habitat. — ISTaga Hills. 



Distribution. — Mr. W. Doherty *' found it abundantly above Mao, on the 

 Manipur side of the Nagar Hills, at 6000 to 8000 feet elevation, in August and 

 September, 1889, where it was common in open ground near water, the larva 

 feeding on a species of Nettle" (H. J. Elwes, I.e.). 



China and Japan species. — Araschnia prorsoides (Van. Prorsoideset Levanoides, 

 Blanchard, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. 1871, p. 810). Leech, Butt, of China, etc., i. 

 p. 273, pi. 26, fig. 1, 2, (? ?. Si/n. A. Strigosa, Alpheraky, Eom. Mem. v. p. Ill, 

 pi. 5, fig. 6 (1889). Habitat. W. GhinPi.—Ara.'ichnia obscura, Fenton, P. Z. S. 1881, 

 p. 850. Syn. A. Levana, Leech, I.e. p. 269, pi. 26, fig. 9. Habitat. Corea; 

 Yesso, Japan. — Araschnia Burejana, Bremer, Bull. Acad. Petr. (1861), p. 466 ; id. 

 Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 15, ph 1, fig. 8 (1864). Leech, I.e. i. p. 271, pi. 26, fig. 10—14 

 (1892). Pryer, Rhop. Niphon, p. 25, pi. 5, fig. 11 (1888). 8ijn. A. Strigosa, 

 Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1866, p. 54. Habitat, Amur Land, W. China, 



