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white. Hindiinug witli the ground-colour yellow, blotchel with deep castaneous-red 

 in the cell, costal, medial-discal, and outer marginal interspaces ; marked with 

 prominent silvery-white spots with slender black edges, as follo^vs : — two small 

 spots above base of the cell, one in middle of the cell, an elongated spot at end of 

 the cell, an inuer-discal augulated series of spots, the upper larger and irregular- 

 shaped, the two next minute, the fourth elongated and extended from end of the 

 cell, the fifth minute, and the next elongated ; followed by a slender streak in the 

 submedian interspace and another along the abdominal border ; beyond is a medial- 

 discal sinuous series of spots, of which the two upper and the three lower are large 

 and dentate in shape, the upper third spot being minute ; followed by an outer- 

 discal curved row of six minute round ocellate spots, and then a marginal row of 

 large triangular spots. Bod;/ above fulvous-black, clothed with fulvous hairs ; palpi 

 dusky fulvous ; body beneath and legs fulvous-red ; antennae above black, beneath 

 and tip red. 



Female. Upperside pale fulvous ; basal areas and posterior margin of forewing 

 dusky grey. Cilia alternated with dusky fulvous ; markings as in the male, but 

 more compact. Forewing with the interspaces between the subapical diffused spot 

 and the upper outer-discal spot, and also between the submarginal spots and 

 marginal line more or less fulvous-white or quite white. Bindwing with the slender 

 interspace between the submarginal spots and marginal black border also more or 

 less fulvous white. Underside as in the male. Hindwing with all the silvery-white 

 markings broader, the red interspaces much darker. 



Expanse, S ? 1^) to Ij^ inch. 



Habitat. — Eastern Himalayas. 



DisTEiBDTiON. — " I saw this insect first on the high Chola Range in 1870, and 

 have since obtained it in quantity from natives who have been sent to Chumbi and 

 Western Bhotan " (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 349). "Apparently very 

 common in July at high elevations in Native Sikkim" (L. de Xiceville, Sikkim Gaz. 

 1894, 139). 



BOLORIA ALTIS3IMA. (Plate 377, fig. 2, 2a, ? ), 



Aryi/nnis Aliisshna, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 403, pi. 25, fig. 8, ^ . de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, ii. p. 139 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside pale fulvous, palest in the male ; basal 

 areas irrorated with black scales, speckled with grey in female, and clothed with 

 fulvous hairs. Cilia white, alternated with black, Forewing with ordinary black 

 cell-bars, inuer-discal angulated series of small spots, a subapical costal patch. 



