266 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



witli orange, the orange colour continued narrowly up the abdominal margin fur a short 

 distance, a very fine terminal black line on both wings, prominent towards the anal 

 angle of the hindwing. 



Female. Upperside brown. Forewing with the cell and lower portion of the 

 wing, from the base, for two-thirds its length, pale blue, glistening in certain lights, 

 the blue colour divided by the median nervure and the base of the first median nervule, 

 an orange spot at the end of the cell and another beyond it in the next lower inter- 

 space, an orange smear on the hinder margin near the angle. Hindwing paler brown 

 without markings, tail black, tipped with white, outer margin scalloped and slightly 

 produced at the end of vein 3, both wings with black marginal line and white cilia. 

 Underside pale slaty -brown. Forewing with a dark thin bar at the end of the cell, pale 

 edged, a discal narrow dark band, from the costa to vein 4, where it is pushed a little 

 inwards and runs down to a dark square patch at the hinder angle, above which is a 

 large irregular whitish patch with a dark spot at its upper inner end close to the discal 

 band, the band from this spot to the costa edged outwardly ^dth white. Hindwing 

 with the basal third dark brown, with a very irregular outer margin of white, the white 

 line running down from the middle of the costa, is angled inwards at the upper end of 

 the cell, curves round inwards on the median vein, is angled inwards in the middle of 

 the curve, then runs straight upwards to the costa, and below the curve is continued 

 round in two curves to the abdominal margin at the middle, the middle portion of the 

 wing is more or less whitish, followed by a broad diffuse brown shade across the wing 

 with a series of small white lunules, and this is followed by a whitish marginal space, 

 a large black anal spot, capped with orange, the orange colour running in a thin line 

 for a short distance up the abdominal margin, a black sub-terminal spot, ringed with 

 orange in interspace 1, a sub-terminal series of small brown lunular marks, a terminal 

 white line and black anteciliary line. Antennae black, ringed with white, the club 

 with an orange tip ; head and body concolorous with the wings above and below. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1-^^ to 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — N.AV. Himalayas, China. 



Distribution. — The type came from Simla, the type of katura is marked N. India, 

 Mackinnon and de Niceville record it from Mussuri ; it is in the B. M. from Kangra, 

 Kulu, and Moupin, Central China. 



RURALIS DUMA. 



Plate 703, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, $ , 



Dipsas duma, Hewitson, 111. Diurn, Lcp. p. 15, pi. 6, Suppl. fig. 15, (J (1869). Staudinger, 



Ex. Schmett. p. 273, pi. 95, ^ (1888). 

 Zcphjrus duma, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 304 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 634. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brilliant metallic green. Forewing with a narrow 



