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yellowish-oclireous irregular margined band extending from the costa to submedian 

 veinlet, its inner-edge sinuously black bordered and its outer-edge more waved ; 

 tlie apical area beyond being ochreous-black and containing two small outwardly- 

 oblique subapical ocbreous spots, the lowest being most distinct and palest, the 

 upper one smallest and more or less obsolescent ; within the lower-discal ai-ea of the 

 yellowish band are two small i-ounded black inwardly-oblique spots placed in the 

 median interspaces, and then a larger somewhat quadrate black lower spot 

 outwardly-disposed above the submedian and which is joined to a narrow sinuous 

 black submarginal line ascending to the upper median veinlet. Hindiring crossed 

 by a very slender black inner-discal broken sinuous line, a medial-discal straighter 

 lunular line outwardly-bordered by pale yellowish lunules which widen and are some- 

 what whitish anteriorly, the costal space between the upper end of the lines being also 

 whitish ; beyond is an outer-discal row of five rounded black spots, the penultimate 

 upper one the largest, followed by a black submarginal sinuous rather broad line, 

 and then a marginal lunular line, the extreme outer margin being also blackish. 

 Underside paler brownish-ochreous. Foreiving with the apical area also pale 

 brownish-ochreous, the discal broad band paler and duller yellow, its sinuous inner- 

 edge slenderly defined, its lower-discal area being traversed by the three black spots, 

 as on upperside, and on the apical area above these are succeeded by a series of small 

 black pale-edged dentate spots, the whole preceded by an inner row of slender 

 blackish pale outward-bordered lunules, of which latter the two upper are the 

 largest; beyond are two less-defined slender sinuous marginal lines; cell-marks 

 brownish-ochreous. Hinclwing marked as on upperside ; the inner-discal and 

 marginal lines being less-defined, slender, and outwardly lunularly pale bordered, 

 the medial-discal lunules prominent and lilacine-white, the discal black spots 

 surrounded by reddish-ochreous. Bodi/ and palpi above olivescent brownish- 

 ochreous, below, and legs pale yellowish-ochreous ; auteuufe above blackish, beneath 

 reddish-ochreous. 



Expanse, c? 2^% to 2^-0, 9 2^) to 2i-o inches. 



Habitat. — Kumaou ; Nepal ; Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Naga and Khasia Hills ; Silhet : 

 Dacca; Burma; Tenasserim ; Siam ; Malay Peninsula ; Nicobars ; Nias ; Sumatra; 

 Java; Borneo; Hong Kong ; Hainan; Formosa. 



Distribution. — This occurs along the foot of the Himalayas as fai- West as 

 Kumaon, as stated by Mr. E. T. Atkinson in his Notes on Zool. of N.W. Prov. 

 India. Mr. P. "W. Mackinnon records it as "common in tlie Dehra Dun in May 

 and October. A straggler or two is occasionally found in Masuri early in May " 

 (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1898, 308). Mr. W. Doherty obtained it in the " River Valleys, 

 in Kumaou, up to 5000 feet" (J. As. 8oc. Bengal, 1880, 121). "In (Sikkira it is 

 never common, but appears to occur at low elevations throughout the warmer 



