122 L. De Niceville — Description of a new species of Butterfly. [July , 



area paler, with an indistinct white band from the base, and another short 

 transverse one above the anal angle. Incomplete submarginal and mar- 

 ginal bands of white linear spots. Anal lobe black, encircled by a white 

 line and thickly irrorated with white scales. Tail long, black ; tip and 

 cilia white. 



Ukdebside rich bright brown, crossed by several silvery-white bands. 

 Fore wing with narrow basal and subbasal bands, then a broad median 

 band coincident with the band above but not reaching the costa ; a short 

 narrow costal band ; then a very irregular broad band which is broken 

 up into spots on the inner side below its middle ; and lastly a marginal 

 series of seven spots, the two upper ones rounded and out of line, the 

 rest increasing, linear. The ground-colour near the outer angle becoming 

 darker and almost forming two dark brown spots. Hind wing with the 

 two basal and broad median bands as in the fore wing, but all meeting 

 above the anal angle, at which point they are joined by two other white 

 bands traversing the abdominal area. There is also a fourth band from 

 the costa, short, narrow, submarginal, reaching the discoidal nervule, 

 between which and the broad median band there is another narrow white 

 line not reaching the costa, in continuation of which is an orange fascia 

 terminating on the abdominal margin in a black linear spot, and bearing 

 two black rounded spots at its upper extremity. Submarginal and mar- 

 ginal white lines. Anal lobe jet-black, surmounted by a black, white- 

 irrorated space ending in a black spot on the abdominal margin, which 

 space is divided from the lobe by a white line. 



Cilia of fore wing brown, except a small portion near the inner 

 angle ; of the hind wing, alternately brown and white. 



Body above deep brown, with a somewhat rufous collar ; beneath, 

 white, with a black median abdominal line. 



Legs. The atrophied fore legs are pure white, the two posterior pairs 

 have their tibiae and tarsi ocraceous. 



Antenna black, annulated with white. 



A single specimen taken by the late Mr. J. P. Cock near Shillong, 

 Assam, in November. 



This species seems nearest allied to Dodona deodata, Hewitson, from 

 Moulmein, figured in Plate I of Moore's " Desc. new Indian Lep. from 

 coll. Atkinson," Part I, 1879, from which species it may readily be dis- 

 tinguished on the upperside in having only one median white band, being 

 in fact altogether a much darker insect. D. deodata is apparently tailless, 

 or the tails are rudimentary. 



This is only the eighth species of this very interesting and compact 

 little genus (all of which occur in India) as yet described. It is remark- 



