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small black sj^ots, followed by a submargiual oclireous lunular Hue, and a less 

 apparent slender similar marginal line. Underside. Markings similar to upperside. 

 Forewing with the basal and apical dark portions various shades of chestnut-bi'own 

 washed with violet ; base of cell and space between the two pairs of cell-bars, 

 the oblique costal streak, subcostal streak and its lower-discal series of lunules, all 

 violet-white ; lower-discal area and outer margin pale ochreous. Hindwing with the 

 costal base and outer border pale ochreous ; discal area violaceous ; interspace 

 of cell-bars, edge of an inner-discal sinuous line, and a medial-discal series of decreas- 

 ing lunules violet- white ; an outer-discal row of black spots more or less diffusedly 

 surrounded with reddish-ochreous ; marginal lunular line dusky-brown. Body and 

 palpi above olivescent-brown ; beneath, and femora beneath whitish ; legs pale 

 ochreous ; antennae black above, tip and shaft beneath reddish-ochreous. 



Expanse, c? 2^q to 2^), ? 2i^o to 3 inches. 



Habitat. — West and Eastern Himalayas ; Assam ; Khasias ; Silhet ; Cachar, 

 Orissa ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra ; Java ; Borneo ; Philip- 

 pines. 



DiSTKiBUTioN. — In the Western Himalayas, Mr. P. W. Mackinnon records it as 

 " occurring in the Valleys to the north of Masuri in April and August, and in the Dun 

 from August to December. Rare. We have it also from the Bhilung District 

 of Tehri Garwhal, taken in September" (Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1898, 368). Mr. 

 W. Doherty found it " common in the Kali Valley, Kumaon, at 2000 to 3000 

 feet elevation" (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 121). We possess examples from 

 Nepal, Sikkim, Bhotan, the Khasias ; Chindwin, Burma, taken in December by 

 Colonel C. H. E. Adamson ; Malacca; Sumatra, and Java. It is " not very common 

 in Sikkim, but is foiind from 2000 to 3000 feet elevation, from May to October. 

 I have never seen a female of this species, though hundreds have passed through my 

 hands. Mr. Dudgeon reports it as occurring more commonly East of the Tista River, 

 at the same elevations. He has observed the female in June, depositing eggs, 

 at 2500 feet elevation " (de Niceville, Sikk. Gazetteer, 1894, 132). " In Burma, 

 this insect is not uncommon on the gravelly beds of streams in the cold weather. Its 

 flight is very strong and rapid. It invariably rests with the wings crossed over its 

 back, and is in all its habits quite different from Atella PhaJanta and Alcippe " (Col. 

 Adamson List, p. 17). Dr. J. Anderson took it in " Mergui, in the cold weather" 

 (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 34). Dr. N Manders found it "not a common 

 species in the Shan States. Taken at Yatsouk aud Fort Stedman " (Tr. Eut. Soc. 

 1890, 520). 



Malay Species. — Issoria Egista (Pap. Egista, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 281, 

 fig. C, D (1782). Semper, Reis. Phil. Lep. p. 110, fig. (1888). Atella Egista, 

 Kirby Catal. D. Lep. p. 154 (1871). Hahltnt. Moluccas. 



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