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irregular, transverse bands, the first sub-basal, disconnected in its middle, the second 

 and tliird short, from the centre of the wing to the cosfca, before which they meet, 

 the third from the abdominal margin near the angle right across the wing. Antennae 

 brown, pale below with brown rings, a long white streak below the club, and the tips 

 white, head and body brown. 



Female. With the black outer band of the fore wing and the broad costal black 

 band of the hindwing similar in shape to those of the male, but all the rest of both 

 wings is white above and below ; on the upperside on the forewing there is some 

 ochreous-grey suffusion at the base, and there is a sub-costal band of the same colour 

 from the base to the apical black band ; the hindwing is without markings except for 

 a terminal somewhat suffused line of the same colour, but some examples are without 

 it ; on the underside there is some ochreous-grey suffusion, on the outer margin of the 

 forewing and the hindwing is more or less entirely suffused with this colour, the 

 centre portion being paler than the borders ; all the markings are more or less 

 obsolescent, but those that can be distinguished are identical with the markings of 

 the male, except that the lower band on hindwings below, which stop in the middle 

 of the wing, has two teeth pointing hindwards. 



Expanse of wings, $ ^ 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, and Bhutan. 



The females appear to be commoner than the males ; we have one from the 

 Khasia Hills, and there is one in the Hewitson Collection in the B. M. without 

 locality. Moore described the male of multistrigatus as the male of this species.* 

 We have examined his type in the B. M., and de Niceville and those that followed 

 him do not appear to liave seen the true male. 



ALLOTINUS MULTISTRIGATUS. 



Plate 615, figs. 2, (J, 2a, ? , 2b, ^ , 2c, ? . 



Allotinus multistrigatus, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 253, pi. 11, figs. 11 and 2, <? ? . 



Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 131. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 373. 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 29, pi. 26, figs. 157, 158, ^ ? (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. 



Soc. 1890, p. 527. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 619. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. 



ii. p. 298 (1907). 

 Gerydus drumila, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 521, ^ (ex errore). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside of a dark earthy brown. Forewing with a pale curved 

 patch from the end of the cell, sometimes connected with the base by an obscure pale 

 streak through the cell ; the outer portion blacker than the rest of the wing. Hindwing 

 unmarked. Underside with all the markings darker brown with white edges. 



* P.Z.S. 1883, p. 521. 



