278 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



its upper end narrower and more or less rounded, extending above vein 5, the apical 

 and outer marginal portions of the wing above and beyond the patch black, the basal 

 third of the costa and the outer margin below vein 2 narrowly black. Hinchcing with 

 a large white, y^tj broad band, divided by the veins, from the middle of the costa to 

 vein 2, all the veins black, the base inside the white band rather darker than the rest 

 of the wing ; the costa outside the band blackish, the entire outer margin with a narrow 

 blackish band, the abdominal fold pale, terminal line black with an inner white line, 

 the vein ends dividing them both ; tail black. Underside chocolate-brown ; a broad 

 white transverse band across both wings, its inner edge running outside the end of the 

 cell of each winsj, narrowing^ on the costa of the forewinsj and towards the abdominal 

 margin of the hindwing above the anal angle which it does not reach, its outer edge 

 on the lower part of the forewing and throughout on the hindwing somewhat 

 irregular ; the outer marginal space on both wings pale, with greyish suffusion, broadest 

 on the hindwing, a sub-marginal series of rather large chocolate-brown spots, a series of 

 smaller similar spots on its inner side, represented on the forewing by two dark spots 

 hindwards, the whole series often complete on the hindwing, a large, somewhat oblong 

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

 at the anal angle capped and split into two pieces by orange, a streak of this colour 

 running shortly up the abdominal margin, and sometimes a dot or two of orange 

 between the two black spots. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body 

 above and below concolorous with the wings, abdomen below whitish. 



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



Habitat. — North-West Himalayas. 



Distribution'. — The type came from Simla, we have it from Kulu ; de Niceville 

 records it from the Kangra Valley, 9,000 feet elevation, also from Masuri, and Kujiar 

 near Dalhousie ; it is in the B. M. also from Sultanpore. 



Genus CH^TOPROCTA. 

 Chsetoprocta, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 311 (1890). 



Eyes hairy. Forewing, vein 12 ends on costa opposite end of cell, 11 emitted 

 at one-third before the end, 10 from near the end, 9 from 7 at one half beyond 

 end, 6 from upper end of cell, 3 from before lower end, sub-median nervure 

 straight ; wing triangular, costa evenly arched, outer margin shghtly convex, apex 

 somewhat acute, hinder margin straight. Hindwing, vein 7 emitted a little before 

 upper end of cell, discocellulars in a straight line, the lower nearly twice as long as the 

 upper ; vein 3 from a little before lower end of cell ; wing oval, with a short tail at the 

 end of vein 2 ; a very small anal lobe. Antennae short, with a well-formed long club, 

 gradually thickened ; palpi short porrect, second joint densely scaly, third naked. 



