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lower margin, is sinuous and has one or two curves in it ; in some examples there are 

 two or three obscure pale sub-apical streaks within the band, but usually it is without 

 markings. liindwwg with some grey irrorations on the basal half, a large round 

 orange spot at the end of the cell, and a black immaculate band on the exterior border, 

 moderately broad in its middle, sinuous in its inner margin, narrowing rapidly both 

 upwards and hindwards, never reaching the anal angle ; costal space whitish, cilia of 

 both wings white with orange tips. Underside much darker yellow, the hindwing 

 darker than the forewing. Forewing with a large black white-centred oval spot at the 

 end of the cell, a discal row of five brown spots running evenly with the margin, two 

 small brown spots on the costa above them. Hindwing with slight greenish-grey 

 irrorations on the inner portion, a large round, white shining spot with a small one 

 close above it, at the end of the cell, both encircled with two red-brown rings, between 

 which the colour is pale red-brown, a brown mark in the middle of the costa and a 

 discal row of red-brown dots, one in each interspace, running evenly with the outer 

 margin, cilia of both wings orange-red. Antennse, head and front of thorax in both 

 sexes salmon-pink, the rest of the thorax and abdomen greenish-black, with some white 

 hairs on the former, beneath they are pale yellow, legs pinkish. 



Female. Upperside coloured as in the male, but always paler. Forewing with the 

 exterior black band similar in shape, but usually broader, and always with five or six 

 largish spots of various sizes in the middle of the band, four or five sub-apical, the two 

 lowest the largest, a large one a little below the middle and a small one close below it. 

 Hindwing with the orange cell spot larger, the outer band composed of large black 

 spots in the interspaces, joined together and widened at the apex with a yellow spot in 

 it and continued up to the beginning of the costal pale space. Underside as in the 

 male. 



Expanse, $ % 2^ to 2y% inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Id, $, le, ?). 



Male and female paler than in the Wet-season form, some of the females almost 

 whitish, the markings similarly disposed, but the bands very narrow in both sexes, and 

 some of the spots on the exterior border of the female above are often obsolescent ; in 

 the outer border of the forewing of the male above there are frequently several pale 

 difi"use streaks. 



Expanse, $ ?, lyo to l-j% inches. 



Habitat. — Afghanistan, Beloochistan and the Himalayas. 



Distribution. — "We took it in great numbers in Kandahar and Quetta, and it is in 

 our collection from Cashmir, Kulu Murree and Campbellpur (Yerbury) ; Doherty reports 

 it from Kunawur and Naini Tal, Moore from Yarkand, Mackinnon and de Kiceville 

 from Mussuri, and Leslie and Evans from Chitral ; Moore's type of Lativitta came 



