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black costal hand, and a broader outer marginal band, broadest at the apex. Hindwing 

 with the costal space broadly black, outer marginal black band even, and slightly- 

 broader than on the forewing ; abdominal fold pale blackish ; tail black, tipped with 

 white. Cilia white, with black base, the white tipped with black from vein 3 to the 

 anal angle. Underside dark glossy grey, markings brown. Forewing with a bar at the 

 end of the cell, edged on both sides with white, a discal almost straight, moderately 

 broad band from the costa to vein 2 narrowing hindwards and outwardly edged with 

 white, a sub-marginal band, from the costa to the sub-median vein, thickenino- 

 hindwards, inwardly edged with white ; a marginal band with a white line between it 

 and the sub-marginal band. Hindwing with a short transverse bar, edged on both 

 sides with white, from below the costa one-third from the base, a long bar at the end 

 of the cell, inwardly edged with white, attached to the discal band which runs in a 

 straight line from the middle of the costa to vein 2, commences rather broadly, is 

 attenuated hindwards, then bends in two sharp-pointed angles, and a short straight 

 line to the abdominal margin beyond the middle, and is outwardly edged with white 

 throughout; a sub-marginal band also somewhat attenuated hindwards, inwardly 

 edged with white and well separated from the margin, a black anal spot capped with 

 orange, a sub-terminal black spot in the first interspace ringed with orange, a very 

 narrow band close to the margin ; both wings with terminal white line, most apparent 

 on the hindwing an anteciliary blackish line. Antennae black, ringed with white, the 

 club with an orange tip ; head and body above and below concolorous with the win^s. 



Female. Upperside dark brown. Forewing with a large orange spot at the end 

 of the cell, and another outside it in the next lower interspace, both spots varyino 

 much in size in different examples and often joined together. Hindwing without 

 markings, tail brown, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings brown. Underside 

 brown, not grey as in the male, markings similar. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ly^ to 2, ? lj% to l^-^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Sylhet. 



Distribution. — Elwes records it from the Naga Hills, the type is marked North 

 India ; we have it from Sylhet, and have received many examples from Sikkim, where 

 it appears to be common ; in the B. M. it is also from Sinchal, 8,000 feet elevation. 



RURALIS SYLA. 

 Plate 703, figs. 3, (J , 3a, ? , 3b, J . 



Theda syla, Kollar, Hugel's Kasclimir, iv. (2), p. 4U, pi. 4, figs. 7, 8, ^ (1848). Doherty, Journ. 



As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 130. 

 Dijisas syla, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lap. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 30 (1857). Moore, Proc. Zool. 8oc. 



1865, pp. 508 and 774. 



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