94 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



broader than in that species, the base with blackish suffusion, spots black, two inside 

 the cell, and one at the end at even distances apart, increasing in size outwards ; a 

 discal band of spots in three pieces, in echelon with each other, the upper piece of four 

 spots, the others of two each, in rows, the lower parts inclining outwards. Ilindwing 

 suffused with brownish, with a pale space of copper colour in the upper disc, with very 

 slight suffusion, two spots at the end of the cell, one above the other, and two similar 

 spots a little beyond ; costa broadly blackish, a black outer marginal band containing an 

 orange band of connected, thick lunulcs, from the anal angle to vein 6. Cilia brown at 

 the base, whitish at the tips. Underside. Foremng bright orange, spots as above, 

 l)ut fiuely ringed with whitish, terminal line black, a sub-terminal series of thick linear 

 l)lack spots, the lowest geminate, and between them a series of minute black dots or 

 points. Ilindwing dark grey, spots black, ringed with white, three sub-basal in a 

 transverse row at equal distances apart, the middle one inside the cell, followed by three 

 similar spots, the middle one inside the cell, near its end, the upper one near the costa, 

 a smaller spot just outside the middle spot, a lunular black mark at the end of the cell 

 just below it, a series of nine discal spots in an irregular row, a white band outside 

 them, followed by a series of black lunular marks, then an orange band divided by the 

 veins, containing a series of sub-terminal black spots outwardly edged by a white 

 auteciliary line divided by the veins and a black terminal line. Antennse black, ringed 

 with white ; head and body black above, whitish beneath ; eyes ringed with white. 



Female like the male above and below, but the colour is generally duller, the band 

 on the forewing a little broader, the spots usually larger, and the hindwing aljove is 

 entirely suffused with blackish-brown, the outer marginal orange lunules larger, the 

 sub-terminal black spots in the lunules darker. 



Expanse of wings, 3" ? Ig inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



DiSTRiBOTiON. — Doherty recorded it from Kumaon, 4,500 to 13,000 feet, Lang 

 from Xaini Tal and Almorah, 6,000 to 7,000 feet ; we have it from Simla, Kulu and 

 Cashmir ; and it is in the B. M. also from Dalhousie, Kali Valley, Lahoul, Kasaoli, 

 Eanikhet, and Narkundah. 



CHRYSOPHANUS ADITIA. 



Plate 661, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, $, 2b, $. 



Chrijsoplianus aditi/a, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 571, pi. 66, fig. 1, ^ . de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, iii. p. 318 (1890). Leslie and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1903, p. 674. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings brilliant metallic brassy, copper colour, 

 slightly red-tinged. Cilia white, with its basal half black. Forewing with the costal 

 line black, outer marginal band narrowly black, thickest at the apex. Ilindwing with 

 the outer marginal band separated into distinct largish black spots by the veins. 



