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the inner-discal spots interspaced by an olive-fjiey band, and botli onter-discal 

 series bordered by violescent-white ; a small blackish Innule with whitish outer edge 

 and contiguous speckles below the cell. Hlndwing also with prominent black basal 

 transverse slender interrupted lines, and a more irregularly-broken inner-discal line, 

 followed by a medial-discal row of very small spots, an outer-discal row of conical 

 spots, each being contiguously bordered inwardly by small black dashes, and 

 outwardly by a row of small spots in pairs ; the basal, subbasal, and discal series 

 each interspaced by a pale olive-grey band, and the outer-discal series by a white 

 band. Body fulvous ; thorax clothed with olive hairs ; head black, spotted with 

 white ; palpi above olive, tip black, beneath white ; body beneath and legs olivescent- 

 grey ; thorax black streaked ; femora black streaked ; antennae black. 



Female. Upperside. Ground-colour of the foi'ewing either rich olivescent 

 fulvous-brown, and of the hindwing dark fulvous-red, very similar to the male, and 

 both wings with markings, also as in male, or the forewino; is much more dusky 

 fulvous-brown with greyish lower-discal longitudinal streaks, and the hindwing paler 

 and entirely greyish — or sometimes with a fulvescent basal discal flush, and both 

 wings with more prominent black markings. Occasionally the female has the whole 

 basal areas of both wings uniformly dark fuliginous-grey. Underside similar to 

 male, except that the basal ground-colour is duller and paler red, and the outer area 

 dull olivescent-ochreous ; all the markings as in male. 



Expanse, S 2^q to 3i^o> ? 3 to i:^^y inches. 



Habitat. — Nepal ; Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Assam ; Cachar ; Silhet ; Khasias ; 

 Burma ; Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Hong Kong ; Hainan. 



Abereatjons. — (Plate 353, fig. 1, la, b, c, S .) 



A. {0. Thebava, fig. 1, la.) Male. Upperside. Basal ground-colour of both 

 wings rich fulvous-red, as in normal male, the ordinary black markings being 

 absent. Fore wing with two broad black cell-bars, the black apical area crossed by a 

 medial-discal row of five white spots, the three upper being linear in shape, the 

 two lower broader and with a black central streak ; marginal white angled-marks 

 prominent. Hindwing with ordinary black outer margin and white angled-marks. 

 Underside. Ground-colour as in normal male. Forewing with broader white 

 borders to the cell-bars ; inner transverse discal marks obsolescent; the medial- 

 discal row of white spots, as on upperside, but broader ; outer marginal angular 

 lines well-defined. Uindiving with the ordinary subbasal, medial and outer discal 

 markings obsolescent ; outer marginal angular lines well-defined. 



Expanse, 3 inches. (Yendaw, Burma. Coll. Grose-Smith.) 



B. (Fig. 1, b, c.) Male. Upperside. Basal ground-colour of both wings 

 bright fulvous-red. Foreiving with prominent black broad cell-bars, and less-defined 



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