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markings ; two subbasal decreasing white bands, commencing broadly on 

 the forewing at the costa, ending on the submedian nervure, commencing 

 again on the hind wing at the costa, near the anal angle approaching 

 each other and becoming very narrow, recurved to the abdominal 

 margin. Forewing with two short parallel white lines at the end of 

 the discoidal cell ; placed anteriorly midway between these two lines 

 is a trifid white spot which reaches the costa, and posteriorly are two 

 other spots also placed midway between the cell lines, the anterior one in 

 the first median interspace, the posterior one placed a little outwardly as 

 regards the spot anterior to it in the submedian interspace ; beyond 

 these two last-named spots are three other spots, the uppermost is 

 white and is in the second median interspace, the other two are black 

 and placed posterior to it ; a trifid subapical spot from the costa to the 

 upper discoidal nervule ; a submarginal series of small white spots ; 

 and a fine white marginal line. Hiudwing with a short narrow white 

 line on the middle of the disc from the second subcostal to the second 

 median nervule ; two fine submarginal white lines ; the anal lobe black, 

 bisected as above by an ochreous line, the lobe anteriorly defined by a 

 white line, anterior to this again is a fine black zigzag line extending 

 from the abdominal margin to the second median nervule ; the abdomi- 

 nal margin bears three fine parallel white lines, the innermost on the 

 extreme margin. Antennae black. Thorax and abdomen above black, 

 beneath whitish. Cilia whitish. 



Near to D. dipoea, Hewitson, which occurs in the Himalayas from 

 Mussoorie to Sikkim, and again in the Naga Hills ; differs therefrom 

 in its smaller size, the clearer ochreous shade of the ground-colour on 

 the underside, all the bands and spots being pare white instead of more 

 or less ochreous or silvery, and the anal lobe being bisected by an 

 ochreous line. D. dracon agrees very closely with the two specimens 

 of a Dodona probably from Western Yunan referred to in the last para- 

 graph of the description of D. dipoea in Butt, of India, vol. ii, p. 31 J, 

 but those specimens are larger, the ground-colour on the underside is 

 of a more reddish shade, and all the markings are not of so pure a 

 white colour, nor are they quite so clearly defined. 



Described from a single example taken at Kangmong in Hsenwi, 

 North Shan States, on 9th March, 1895, by Major F. B. Longe, R. E., 

 who has generously presented the specimen to me. 



Family LYC^NID^. 



12. Castalids roxana, de Niceville, Plate II, Fig. 10, tf. 

 C. roxana, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. x, p. 633, n. 1 (1897) ; 

 id., Watson, 1. c, p. 661, n. 165. 



