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broad, curved, oblique preapical band from costa to termen ; apex 

 .and the termen narrowly dark brown ; a subterminal series of 

 delicate, brown, trident-shaped marks. Hind wing with a band 

 along the terminal margin yellow, bearing paired, lunular, brown 

 marks in the interspaces. Underside dark oehraceous, paler 

 towards the apex of the fore wing, with the following trans- 

 verse markings — subbasal and median dark brown sinuous lines, 

 bordered, the former on the inside, the latter on the outside, by 

 narrow bands of greenish blue ; a discal series of obscure ocelli, 

 some of them defined only as pale spots ; a postdiscal and a 

 subterminal dark highly-sinuous line, the former ending in a black 

 tornal spot outwardly margined with pink. Antenna, head, 

 thorax and abdomen chocolate-brown above, oehraceous beneath. 



2 . Upperside similar, a preapical white spot on fore wing. 

 Underside with the transverse markings similar ; the ground- 

 colour up to the median black transverse line chocolate-brown ; 

 beyond, the fore wing from costa to vein 4 light oehraceous, in- 

 wardly paling to white below vein 1 ; the hind wing crossed by a 

 diffuse dark brown band ; ocelli as in the male, followed by a dull 

 ochraceous-brown postdiscal area, the terminal margins broadly 

 brown, inwardly defined and crossed subterminally by highly sinuous 

 dark lines. Antennre, head, thorax and abdomen as in the J . 



Exp. <$ 2 98-118 mm. (3-9-4-25"). 



Hob. Sikhim. 



Race nurinissa, de Mceville. — <$ 2 . Upperside differs from 

 the typical form in having the preapical yellow band on the fore 

 wing narrower but continued down to the torn us along the ter- 

 minal margin; the apex more broadly brown, and a row of obscure 

 brown spots instead of the trident-shaped marks. The yellow 

 band on the hind wing broader. Underside in both sexes almost 

 precisely similar to the underside in S. nourmalicd. 



Exp. 6 2 104-128 mm. (4-1-5-1"). 



Hab. Bhutan. 



227. 



Stichophthalma howqua, Westwood (Thaumantis), Trans. Ent. 



Soc. (new ser.) i, 1851, p. 147 ; Leech (var. suffusa), Butt. China, 



1892-94, p. 114, pi. i, fig. 3, yar. $ . 

 Stichophthalma sparta, de Niceville, J.A.S.B. 1894, p. 2, pi. i, 



fig. 4 (S; Moore, Lep. 2nd. ii, 1893-96, p. 217, pi. 167, figs. 2, 



2a,<$. 



$ 2 • Upperside oehraceous yellow suffused with a darker, some- 

 what brownish shade of the same towards base of fore wing and on 

 hind wing. Fore wing : a postdiscal transverse row of fleur-de-lys- 

 shaped spots, a subterminal series of broad black lunules, followed 

 by a series of narrow crescentic marks of the oehraceous ground- 

 colour ; apex and a terminal line black. Hind wing : a sub- 

 terminal series of black lunules as on the fore wing, giving out 

 inwards a series of large, shafted, roundly lanceolate marks of 

 the same colour, followed, as on the fore wing, by narrow 



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