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confluent, or separate, the lower four rounded, the lowest being more or less 

 diffused ; between the inner-discal costal streak and the latter row of spots is a 

 short black sinuous streak decreasing from the costa to near upper median ; a 

 submai'guial sinuous line and the outer border black, enclosing a row of ochreous 

 lunulas, of which latter the three upper are small and obsolescent, the next more or 

 less dentate, and the lower decreasingly linear. Hindicingv^'ith two slender blackish 

 cell-bars, two at its end, an inner-discal transverse irregular sinuous line, a similar 

 medial-discal line, followed by an outer-discal row of black rounded sjjots, a sub- 

 marginal sinuous line, a narrower more even outer line, and black narrow outer 

 boi'der. Underside paler yellowish-ochreous ; all the transverse markings ill-defined, 

 except the lower discal black spots on forewing, the outer discal and marginal lines 

 on both -wings being slightly lunularly bordered by pale violaceous-grey. 

 Expanse, S I^-q, ? "^-p iJiches. 



Dry-season form (Plate 361, fig. 1, c, d, J'). 



Male and female. Upperside jDaler ochreous than in wet-season ; the basal and 

 discal markings all very slender and more or less obsolescent, the outer discal and 

 marginal markings distinct. Underside paler, but similar to wet-season. 



Expanse, l^-g 'to 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim; Silhet; Khasias ; S. India; Burma; Tenasserim; Andamans; 

 Malay Peninsula ; Borneo. 



DisiEiLUTiON. — " Appears to occur in Sikkim onh' in the outer valleys 

 debouching on to the Plains, such as Sivoke, from whence the natives bring it in 

 considerable numbers. I have never seen it alive in Sikkim. It occurs almost 

 throughout the year except in winter" (de Niceville, Sikk.. Gazetteer, 1894, 133). 

 Col. C. Swinhoe has examples from the Khasias, and from Karwar, Bombay. 

 " This is a very local species, in the North Kauara District, Bombay. We have met 

 with it only at three places on the ascent of the Ghauts, from January to Api-il. In 

 April we found the larva on a tree, which we believe to be a local species of 

 Hydnocarinia, The larva is like that of Cirrochroa, cylindrical, with six rows of fine 

 branched- spines ; head unarmed; colour green, with longitudinal interrupted lines 

 of brown and claret colour on the back only ; head pale yellowish with two black 

 bars. In habits it resembles the restless and active larva of Cirrochroa. The pupa 

 is almost a smaller copy of that oi A. Phalaidha" (Davidson and Aitken, Jouru. 

 Bombay N. H. Soc. 1896, 248). Col. C. H. E. Adamson records it as " common at 

 Tavoy, Tenasserim, and also taken at Phapoon in the autumn. It is a local insect" 

 (List Burma Lep. 1897, 17). Dr. J. Anderson obtained it at Thaiug, King Island, 

 Mergui, in the cold weather" (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 34). In the British 

 Museum Collection are specimens of the loet-season form from Sikkim, taken in 



