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forewing, interrupted by black veins, and appears green in some lights 

 and violet in others, this species is only touched with obscure violet 

 close to the base of the forewing : the disc has a faint lustre, as if 

 greasy. Below more rufous than icana ; the transverse discal line 

 extends to the lower median, slightly bent inwards at its lower end ; 

 the discal band of the hindwing is straight, the submarginal band 

 rounded : both are tinged with reddish. A blurred, obsolescent ocellus 

 of black and reddish anally and subanally. Outer margin of the fore- 

 wing strongly convex, sinuous, outer margin of hindwing not scalloped, 

 abdominal marginal not excavated, but straight or slightly convex. 

 The prehensores, though generally resembling those of icana, are quite 

 distinct. Both are distinguished from syla and birupa by the uncus 

 seen from the side being divided horizontally. In icana the upper 

 lobe is slender, bent downwards, and projects beyond the lower. In 

 this species the upper lobe is straight, and shorter than the long and 

 massive lower lobe. The clasp (which in both species tapers obliquely 

 upwards) here ends in a blunt, almost vertical point, while in icana it 

 ends in a sharp horizontal beak. The uncus in birupa and syla is very 

 different, being broad and entire, when viewed from the side. 



There is an allied species undescribed in the Indian Museum, col- 

 lected by Mr. de Niceville in the Jalauri Pass, I^. W. Himalayas. It 

 is distinctly violet above in all lights and has a silver-white line across 

 the hindwing below. 



Subfamily Gertdin^. 



156. Allotinus multistrigatcjs, de Mceville. Two females, Askot, 

 6,000 feet, E. Kumaon. I also found it common at Dimagiri and 

 Barakhal in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and on Sirtai Mountain in 

 the Lushai country. I wrote a description of it last September, but 

 on my return to Calcutta found that Mr. de Niceville had anticipated 

 me, giving it the name of Gerydus multistrigatiis. It is not, however, 

 a Gerydus, the tarsi being cylindrical, the first joint nearly twice as 

 long as all the others combined. The egg is extremely flat, strongly 

 bicarinate at the side, more than three times as wide as high, with the 

 sculpturing all but obliterated above. The third subcostal branch is 

 given off opposite the end of the cell, for which reason I put it in the 

 genus Allotinus. Of the other Indian species of the GerydincG, drumila 

 is very much like multistrigatus ; it likewise has the legs cylindrical, but 

 the third subcostal is emitted a little beyond the end of the cell. It 

 has been found in Sikkim, Cachar, and the Lushai country. Paragerydus 

 Tiorsfieldii, and another allied species entirely black above, occur abun- 

 dantly in Arakan and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, north of which they 



