excavated between the middle and lower median, and traversed by a subapical series 

 of decreasing wbite spots, usually four, and sometimes an upper fifth is slenderly 

 apparent. Eindwing with the basal area dusky-grey scaled ; a moderately broad 

 black outer-marginal dentated band, which, iu some specimens, has a few blackish 

 scales scattered between the posterior portions. Underside. Foreicing basally 

 tinged with pale yellow, the apex clear ochreous-yellow, the normal-shaped black 

 subapical transverse band narrow. Hmdwing uniformly clear ochreous-yellow. 

 Expanse, c? 2fioto3, ? 2^% to 2^% inches. 



Dry-season form (Plate 557, fig. Id ^, e, f ? ). 



Male. Upperside. Furewing with the outer band comparatively narrower than 

 in wet form. Hindivlng with the marginal spots small and slender. Underside 

 similar, the apex of forewing, and the hindwing paler. 



Female. Upperside similar to loet female, both wings being uniformly greyish- 

 white. Underside. Forewing with the black subapical band slightly broader, the 

 apex being glossy pale grey. Eindiuing glossy pale grey. 



Expanse, <S 2i^o to ^nt^ ? '^ib ^o '^ro inches. 



E.dreme dry form (Plate 557, fig. Ig 3,h,'^ ? )■ 



Male. Upperside. Foreiving comparatively more pointed at the apex, the apical 

 margin with narrower and less-defined, or obsolescent, blackish-scaled border. Hind- 

 wing unmarked. Underside similar to the ordinary dry form, the apex, and the 

 hindwing being somewhat brighter pale yellow tinted. 



Female. Upperside greyish-white. Foreiving with the black outer band some- 

 what narrower than in the ordinary dry form, the white subapical spots less medially 

 disposed. Hindwing with the black marginal band macular and narrower. 



Expanse, 6 2^% to 2^^y, ? 21^ inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Sikkim ; Assam, Khasias, Silhet ; Lower Bengal ; Burma ; 

 Upper Tenasserim. 



DiSTKiBDTiON. — We possess both sexes of the wet-season form from Darjiling and 

 from Eastern Bengal ; also female from Barrackpur, near Calcutta, taken by Mr. J. 

 Kothney ; males of the luet form from Lushai and Moulmein, Burma. Of the dry- 

 season form, we have males from Silhet, and Parisnath Hill, Lower Bengal, taken in 

 September by the late W. S. Atkinson, and from Upper Tenasserim, also females 

 from Darjiling and Barrackpur ; of the extreme dry form we have males from Moulmein. 

 Col. C. Swinhoe has the male of the wet form from Palene, Burma, a female 

 of the dry form from the Khasias, and Palene, and also extreme dry from Palene. 

 In Mr. Walter Rothschild's Collection is a wet male from Dibrugarh, Assam. Mr. 

 H. Grose-Smith has a female of tlie dry form from Malda, Bengal, and extreme dry 



