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marginal lunules and the lunule at abdominal angle slender and bluisb-grey 

 speckled. 



Female. Upperside with the bands as in male, of the same colour and width. 

 Foreunng also with a small spot above outer end of subapical band. Underside of the 

 same pale yellow ground-colour and defined patches of bright ochreous-yellow as in 

 male; the tessellate markings broader; the submarginal row of conical spots on 

 hindwing with clear pale centres as in male ; the marginal lunules also the same as 

 in male. 



Expanse, c? lj^o» ? S^-q inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. 



Distribution. — Under the name S. Asthala Mr. L. de Niceville refers to this 

 species as having " been brought in considerable numbers in April, May and 

 October, from native Sikkim by native collectors. It is very plentiful at Sivoke in 

 March " (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 145). Specimens of both sexes from Sivoke, 

 Sikkim, taken in March and May by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, are in the British Museum. 

 Other examples are in our own collection, and also in that of Mr. P. Crowley and 

 Mr. H. Grose-Smith. 



SYMBRENTHIA HYSUDRA. 



Symhrenthia Htjsudra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 268, pi. 43, fig. 8, ? {dry-season). Doherty 

 Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 123. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 244 (1886). 



Wet-season form (Plate 324, fig. 1, la, c?, 1, b, c, ? ). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside fulvescent-black ; the bands uniformly fulvous. 

 Foretving with a broad very irregularly sinuously-edged discoidal band, a broad 

 subapical oblique sinuous band extending to the costa, and a broad lower-discal 

 band, the latter being sinuous on its inner edge, curved on its outer edge, and 

 joined by a narrow upper streak to the lower end of subapical band, above which 

 latter is a slender apical lunule. Hindunng with an irregular-edged broad discal 

 band and a rather broad submarginal band, the latter attenuated and curved upward 

 to the upper median ; followed by a slender interrupted marginal line to the apex. 

 Underside yellowish-ochreous, blotched with darker ochreous. Forewing with the 

 costal and medial tessellate marks broadly black ; marginal black line prominent. 

 liindmng with the basal and lower discal tessellate marks broadly black ; the 

 submarginal conical spots large and speckled with metallic greyish-blue scales ; 

 the marginal lower lunules and lunule at abdominal angle also metallic greyish- 

 blue. 



Female. Upperside with the bands paler than in male. Forennng with the 

 discoidal band less irregular edged, the subapical band broader and disconnected 



