1888.] L. de Niceville — New Butterflies from the Indian Itegion. 279 



veins. Hindwing with some streaks of the same colour between the 

 veins on the disc; anal lobe and tail (the latter tipped with white) 

 obscure reddish. Underside, both wmgs reddish-brown, sometimes 

 ochreous-brown ; the discoidal cells closed by a narrow red band out- 

 wardly defined with black. Forewing with a waved discal red band, its 

 outer edge irregular, and defined by a fine black, then a silvery line, 

 extending from the costa to the first median nervule ; a submarginal 

 increasing macular dark fascia, the apical half of the outer margin red- 

 dish. Hindwing with a broader discal red band than in the forewing 

 prominently outwardly defined with a silvery line, a submarginal lunular 

 red band, which is bent upwards at the anal angle and continued some 

 distance along the abdominal margin, where it is inwardly defined (as are 

 also the two lunules next to it on both sides) with a fine silvery line ; a 

 series of red lunules on the margin ; tail red. Cilia cinereous through- 

 out. Female. Uppeeside, both wings black. Foreiving with an irregular 

 orange spot placed outwardly against the disco- cellular nervules, and 

 another similar spot placed below and beyond it in the second median 

 interspace, sometimes extending diffusedly into the interspace below ; 

 the discoidal cell and a patch in the middle of the submedian interspace 

 rich purple (never green) in some lights ; this colour sometimes entirely 

 absent. Hindwing unmarked. Underside, both ivings as in the male. 



May at once be distinguished from Z. icana, Moore, by the discal 

 band of both wings on the underside being narrower and outwardly 

 defined with a bright silvery line. The two lunular marginal bands on 

 the underside of the hindwing are in Z. dohertii also more prominent 

 and deep vermilion throughout : in Z. icana they are more orange and 

 that colour is confined to the anal angle. The discal band on the hind- 

 wing below is always distant from the disco-cellular band : in Z. icana 

 the two are run into each other, owing to the much greater breadth of 

 the band. 



I possess numerous specimens, including four females, of Z, 

 dohertii taken by Mr. P. W. Mackinnon at Tehri Gurhwal, near Masuri, 

 8,500 feet, in June ; I also took four males on the Jalauri Pass, at about 

 9,000 feet, Kulu, in July. As Mr. W. Doherty first pointed out the dis- 

 tinctness of this species,* I have much pleasure in naming it after him. 



8. Acesina aberrans, n. sp., PI. XIV, Figs. 3, d", 4, ? . 

 Habitat : Upper Tenasserim. 

 Expanse : cf, 1*45 ; ? , 1-50 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both tvings shining blaish-purple, 

 with a very narrow outer black margin. Hindwing with some marginal 



* J. A. S. B., vol. Iv, pt. 2, p. 131 (1886). 



