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Underside pinkish buff, with the following dark brown lines 

 crossing both fore and hind wing : basal, extending to little 

 beyond the middle of vein 2 in the hind wing, subbasal crossing 

 from subcostal of fore to median vein of hind wing, discal from 

 costa of fore to near tornus of hind wing, postdiscal from costa of 

 fore to tornus of hind wing, thence bending upwards at an angle 

 and following the dorsal margin of hind wing, and subterminal 

 somewhat indistinct on the fore, well-defined and broadening to- 

 wards tornus of hind wing. In addition to these there are on the 

 fore wing a short line of the same colour crossing the cell near 

 apex and a discal line from costa to vein 2, and on the hind wing 

 a large ochraceous postdiscal ocellus in interspace 2 and another 

 in interspace 6. Antennae brown ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 dark brown. Sex-marks a patch of specialized scales in cell, 

 extending into interspaces 1 and 2, and a glandular fold near 

 base of vein with a stiff brush of hairs beneath it. — $ . Upperside 

 umber-brown. Eore wing with a band as in the 3 , but bright 

 yellow, narrower, reaching to the tornus, its inner margin very 

 irregularly zigzag and sinuous, a spot below it in the middle. Hind 

 wing uniform, apex bright yellow. Underside as in the $ , but the 

 ground-colour paler. 



Exp. 6 $ 118-133 mm. (4-25-5-25"). 



Hob. The hill-ranges of Assam ; Burma and Tenasserim. 



Genus THAUMANTIS. 



Thaumantis, Hubner, Samml. ex. Schmett. ii, 1816-1824, Index, 



Syst. y.2;M.$deN. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 304. 

 Kringana et Thauria, Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1&93-96, p. 185. 



Type, T. odana, Godart, from Java. 



Range. Sikhim ; Assam; Burma; Tenasserim, extending to 

 Siam ; the Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra ; Borneo ; Java. 



6 2 • Wings very broad in proportion to length. Pore wing : 

 costa very strongly arched, apex well-marked, termen slightly 

 convex, tornus rounded, dorsum straight ; cell short, not 

 half length of fore wing, very broad ; upper discocellular very 

 short, about half length of middle, middle slightly oblique, lower 

 concave, oblique posteriorly ; vein 4 obtusely angled upwards ; 

 11 from one-third before apex of cell, anastomosed with 12 ; 

 10 out of 7 well beyond apex of cell, anastomosed with 11 ; 

 9 and 8 not anastomosing. Hind wing: costa and termen 

 widely arched, tornus rounded, dorsum more slightly arched ; 

 cell open, vein 4 strongly obtusely angulated upwards. Antennae 

 long and slender, club long and gradual ; palpi suberect, pointed, 

 narrow in front, densely clothed with short hairs ; eyes large ; 

 legs scaled. 



