124 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Female. Upperside creamy white with a slight greenish tinge, the basal portion 

 more or less irrorated with black atoms. Forewing with the apical patch larger than 

 in the male, occupying nearly the apical half of the wing, the orange fascia 

 much restricted, consisting generally of four or five orange-red streaks, the four 

 larger lower streaks with large, black, spear-shaped spots in a sub-marginal row in 

 the interspaces, the inner black band broad, almost uniform in width, joining the 

 outer band hindward wHere it is much thickened and extends to the hinder angle. 

 Hindwing with the outer marginal band broad, its inner margins dentated on the 

 veins, a discal row of large sub-triangular black spots. Underside similar to the male, 

 the brown transverse strigse more dense, the spots more numerous, the costa of the 

 forewing and the medial line of the hindwing darker and more prominent. Antennae 

 in both sexes dark brown, head and thorax with reddish-brown hairs in front, thorax 

 above greyish-blue, abdomen white with a bluish tinge ; on the underside, the head 

 and thorax are brownish and the abdomen white. 



Expanse, $ '^ ^yo inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs, lb, Ic, $ ?). 



Wings more falcate in both sexes, the ground colour on the upperside purer 

 white. ]\Iale. Forewing with the apical orange-red fascia larger, the black sur- 

 rounding bands correspondingly thinner, the inner band much attenuated, and less 

 sinuous. Hindwing with the black spots on the outer margin all but obsolete. 

 Underside very similar to the Wet-season form, the brown strigse and spots more 

 numerous. 



Female. Upperside whiter than in the Wet-season form. Forewing with the 

 apical orange-red fascia much larger, in some examples almost as large as in the male, 

 the costa black ,• the outer black band of the fascia a little broader than in the male, 

 the inner band less sinuous and more pronounced, the spear-shaped sub-marginal row 

 of black spots larger and nearer the outer band. Hindicing with the discal spots 

 smaller and more round, the band on the outer border thinner, often reduced to mere 

 triangular spots. Underside much as in the male. 



Expanse, $ A-^, $ Sy^o to 4 inches. 



Habitat. — N.E. India, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Burma. 



Distribution. — Many examples in our Collection from the Khasia Hills and from 

 Sikkim ; reported from Chin Lushi by de Niceville ; from Burma by Murray and 

 Fruhstorfer ; from Tavoy by Elwes and de Niceville ; from the North Chin Hills by 

 Watson ; from the Shan States by Manders ; from Siam, Annam, Tonkin, Hainan, and 

 Hong Kong by Fruhstorfer ; it is also found in the Malay Peninsula. 



The Larva and Ptjpa are from Horsfield's well-known drawings of the Java form 

 (//. Javanensis, Wallace). 



