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area of the cell and posterior border being white, the lower cell area and median 

 interspaces blotched with pale fulvous. Hlndwing with the basal area aud lower- 

 discal area tessellated with black marks divided by a whitish transverse medial 

 interspace representing the band of the upperside ; beyond is a submarginal series 

 of five metallic-green conical spots, each being thickly powdered with black scales 

 and edged with black, the whole series encompassed by a fine black line, the veins 

 between the spots being also black lined ; bordering these spots is an inner black 

 lunular line, and outwardly a marginal row of motallic-green black-speckled lunules, 

 the three lowest lunules from the anal angle being broad, a similar luiiule also 

 present at the abdominal angle. Bod// above black ; thorax thickly clothed with 

 iridescent green and fulvous hairs, abdomen with fulvous segmental bands ; head 

 above black, front whitish ; palpi above black, pale yellow beneath ; body beneatli 

 and legs pale yellow ; abdomen beneath with lateral black spots ; antennas black 

 above, whitish beneath. 



Female. Upperside duller fulvescent-black ; all the bands yellowish-ochreous. 

 Forewiny with the discoidal band as in male ; the subapical streak continued to the 

 costa and having a minute spot also present outside its lower end, with which it is 

 sometimes coalescent, a small apical streak also above it ; outer band the same as 

 in male. Rindiving with the discal band narrow as in male, the blackish tessellate 

 marks of the underside being very slightly visible basally ; outer-discal baud 

 narrower ; marginal disconnected line slightly apparent. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, <S lj^„ to 2^^^, ? 2^-^^ inches. 



Dry-season form (Plate 322, fig. 1, e, ^J, 1, f, g, h, ? ). 



Synibrentlda Cotandn,MooK,VTO(i.7ioo\. ^oa. 1874, p. 509, j)l. 66, fig. 9, ^. de Niccville, Butt. 

 India, ii. p. 242 (1886) ; id. Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 145. 



Male. — Upperside duller fulvescent-black than in wd-season form. Both wino-s 

 with all the bands broader, more irregular in shape, and of a somewhat paler fulvous. 

 Forewing with the broad discoidal band diffusedly extendiug brokenly below the cell 

 towards the posterior margin and partly coalescing with inner end of the outer band, 

 the subapical band composed of three conjoined portioas. Huidwimj with the discal 

 band extending broadly to the costal edge, where it is pale yellow ; the outer band 

 broader and more irregularly-edged ; the fulvous marginal disconnected line from 

 anal angle distinct, its upper end joined to the discal band. Underside similar to 

 wet-season form. 



Female. Upperside. Ground-colour dark fulvescent-brown ; the black 

 tessellate markings of the underside being more or less partially visible; the bands 

 yellowish-ochreous with paler central areas, broader and more irregularly-edged than 



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