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sleBcler black line, which is sinuously bent inward to the costa of the forewing, the 

 line being outwarcllj edged by dusky grey scales, which widen out and are whitish 

 at the costal end, and inwardly edged by a pale grey line ; the inner-discal area 

 speckled with grey and black scales. Forewitig also with two prominent black- 

 edged silvery-white sinuous bars, or two similar-shaped obsolescent bars, crossing 

 middle of the cell, and a small white spot below the cell; a broad sinuous patch 

 of the dark ground-colour outwardly bordering the discocellulars ; beyond is a 

 submarginal row of more or less distinct, or obsolescent, blackish-edged white dots, 

 the two lower ocellated, the lowest being bipupilled, the upper spot ending on the 

 costa in a larger white dentate spot ; followed by a marginal indistinct slender 

 grey-speckled brown sinuous line. Hindunng also with a small similar prominent 

 silvery-white dentate spot, or an obsolescent spot, near lower end of cell and one 

 also above the cell ; beyond is a submarginal series of two upper-discal ocelli 

 placed in the subcostal and radial interspaces, and a lower-discal ocellus iu the 

 middle and lower median space, the two intervening interspaces sometimes obscurely 

 showing each a smaller pale spot and central dot ; outer border with a marginal 

 indistinct slender sinuous brown line, which is more defined and outwardly broadly 

 o-rey- speckled posteriorly and terminates in a black speckled patch at caudal 

 end. Female. Ground-colour duller purpurescent brownish-ochreous, or of various 

 shades of dark olivescent purplish-brown or olive-brown (presumably ■z(;ei-season), with 

 markings as in male, but less defined, the cell marks being obsolescently-w^hite or 

 yellowish-white, or the ground-colour is uniformly brownish-ochreous with the basal 

 marks of the ground-colour (presumably dry-season brood). Body and palpi above 

 olivescent-brownish ochreous ; palpi beneath and pectus white ; body beneath and 

 legs brown. 



Expanse, S 2^, to 3, ? 2>-^q inches. 



Larva. — Elongated, somewhat slender ; head armed with two erect branched- 

 spines ; segments armed with a dorsal, a sublateral, and lateral rows of branched- 

 spines. Colour of segments and spines purplish-black, with a lateral series of white 

 quadrate spots. 



PuPi. — Stout ; dorsum arched ; thorax elevated and rounded posteriorly, oblique 

 in front ; head-piece produced with two pointed processes. Colour pale reddish or 

 reddish-purple, marked with black dots and strigte. 



Habitat. — N.E. and South India ; Ceylon; Burma; Tenasserim. 



Distribution, Habits, etc. — This " is a common species at low elevations in 

 Sikkim, and occurs also in Assam and Silhet " (de Niceville, I.e. 269). In Sikkim 

 it is " a common species up to 4000 feet elevation, from April to December. It 

 settles on rocks and banks of earth with wings closed, when it is hard to see, but is 

 not shy" (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 366). " The larva is said by Mr. G. C. 



