116 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



in female of wet-season form. Forewing \\it\\ the discoidal band sliglitly confluent 

 with lower end of subapical band ; the apical streak longer and narrow ; the lower 

 band very broad, its upper irregular end sometimes almost touching the subapical 

 band. lUadwing with the discal band very broad, its central area pale yellow ; 

 tessellate marks of underside slightly visible ; outer band broad, its upper end 

 extending inward and sometimes joined to the discal band; marginal line extending 

 to apex. Underside paler throughout than in ivet-season form. 



Expanse, S Ij^ to 2j^ inches. 



Habitat. — W. and E. Himalayas; Assam; Khasia and Naga Hills; Burma; 

 Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula. 



DiSTitiBUTiON. — Mr. W. Doherty records it as being " common in the Kali 

 Valley, 2000 to 4000 feet elevation in Eastern Kumaon " (J. A. S. Beug. 18S6, 122). 

 ]\Ir. L. de J^iceville says it is " not nearly so common as Hippodus [Lucina]. It 

 has a habit of flying backwaixls and forwards in a narrow gorge between rocks in 

 one of the mountain streams so common in the Himalayas, and occasionally settling 

 on the overhanging foliage " (Indian Agriculturist, 1880). We possess the wet and 

 dry-season forms from Nepal, Sikkim, and the Khasia Hills. Col. C. Swinhoe has 

 both forms from the Khasias, and males of the wet form from Kaschmir. Mr. L. de 

 Niceville records it also from " Bhotan, Assam, Naga Hills, Cachar, Karen Hills, 

 Burma, and Malay Peninsula" (J. Bombay N". H. S. 1891, 357). "It is the 

 commonest species of the genus in Sikkim, and is found up to 4000 feet elevation 

 almost throughout the year" (id. Sikk. Gaz. 1894, 145). Mr. H. Grose-Smith has 

 it from the Ruby Mines, Burma. Specimens from the Thoungyeen Valley, Upper 

 Tenasserim, taken in November and February, by Capt. C. T. Bingham, are in the 

 British Museum. 



SYMBEENTHIA BRABIRA. 



Wet- seaion form (Plate 323, fig. 1, la, ^, 1, b, c, ? ). 



SymbrentJiia Astlutla, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874:, p. 2G9, pi. 43, fig. 9, $■ Dolierty, Jonrn. 

 Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 122. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 244, pi. 23, fig. 106, 

 S (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich f ulvescent-black ; the bands of the same rich 

 dark fulvous, as in male of 8. Gotanda, and of the same shape but not so broad as in the 

 dry-season form of the latter species. Underside nearly uniformly bright ochreous- 

 yellow ; tessellated marks smaller, narrower, and more widely apart than in 

 wet-season form of 8. Hysudra ; the submarginal conical spots on the hindwing 

 small, imperfectly formed and slightly speckled with metallic-green scales ; marginal 

 luuules coulinuous and metallic-green speckled. 



