262 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



running narrowly along the hinder margin. Hlndwinri blac'dsh, with some streaks of 

 the blue-green colour between the veins in the disc, anal lobe and tail reddish, the latter 

 tipped with white. Underside reddish-brown, often with an ochreous tint. Foreu-ing 

 with a straight darker band, edged on both sides with black, closing the cell, a narrow, 

 dark reddish-brown discal band from the costa, outwardly edged with black and white, 

 slightly inwardly curved to vein 3, then somewhat inwardly oblique to vein 2, the 

 apical and sometimes the outer marginal portion of the wing with some reddish 

 suffusion, a sub-marginal series of thick reddish-brown lunules. Hindwing with the 

 cell closed as in the forewing, a discal reddish-brown, rather broader band, outwardly 

 edged with Ijlack and white, from the costa, almost straight down to vein 3, then 

 bending round to the abdominal margin in three sharply pointed angles, the middle one 

 the largest, a sub-marginal series of thick, red lunular marks, edged on both sides 

 with black, most prominent towards the anal angle, where it is bent upwards and runs 

 some distance up the abdominal margin, some red marginal lunules, tail red. Cilia 

 cinereous. 



Female. Upperside brownish-black. Furcicing with the cell and a patch in the 

 middle of the sub-median interspace purple, sometimes without it, an orange spot at 

 the end of the cell, with a smaller, similarly coloured spot beyond it a little lower down ; 

 sometimes extending somewhat diffusely hindwards. Hindwing without markings. 

 Underside as in the male, the orange spots al)ove vary much in size in different 

 examples, in some the resemblance to the upperside of R. ataxus female is very near. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1/^ to 1-y^ inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



Distribution. — The types came from Tehri Gurhwal, near Masuri, 8,000 feet 

 elevation, where Mackinnon took numerous specimens ; Ave have it in our collection 

 from jMasuri, taken by Baine-Eeed ; de Niceville records it also from the Jalawri Pass, 

 on the Kulu side, 9000 feet elevation. 



RURALIS ICANA. 



Plate 702, figs. 3, $ , 3a, ? , 3b, $ . 



Dipsas icana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 575, pi. 67, fig. 3, $ . 



Theda icana, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 149. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 130. 



Zepliyrns icana, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 306 (1890). Mackinnon and de Nice\ille, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 384. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 380, pi. 27, fig. 4, <? (1893). 



Imago. — Llale. Upperside brown. Foreu-ing with a sliglit purplish tint, costa 

 with a narrow Ijlackish band, the outer margin with an even band twice as broad, in 

 some examples the interior portion is more or le.ss glistening in certain lights. Ihnd- 

 icing with the costal and outer marginal border Itroader, narrowing a little hindwards on 



