194 XYMPHALIDJE. 



ochraceous crescentic marks and a terminal black line, the marks 

 posteriorly rather diffuse and tending to run together. Under- 

 side ochraceous yellow, with the following transverse markings — 

 subbasal, median, postdiscal, subterminal and terminal dark brown 

 sinuous lines ; a discal row of dark ochraceous ocelli, six on fore, 

 five on hind wing ; and, bordering the ocelli on the inner side, a 

 variable diffuse dusky-black band, ending posteriorly on the hind 

 wing in a black tornal spot. Antennae dark brown ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen ochraceous, abdomen paler beneath. — 2 • Upperside 

 similar, the black markings broader and heavier. Underside also 

 similar, but the ground-colour a beautiful pale green with a silky 

 lustre, the median transverse dark brown line outwardly bordered 

 from costa of fore to vein 1 of hind wing with greenish white ; 

 the dusky-black transversely discal band broader and more diffuse ; 

 fore wing with seven ocelli ; terminal margins broadly but lightly 

 infuscated. 



Exp. 6 2 120-128 mm. (4-72-5-1"). 



Hab. China, extending to the west into our limits and recorded 

 from Manipur. 



The above is a description of S. howqua, var. suffusa, Leech, 

 from W. China ; the typical form, which has the markings lighter 

 and smaller, and the ground-colour on upperside uniform, comes 

 from Central China, while the far west race S. sparta, de Niceville, 

 from Manipur, differs less from S. suffusa than the latter does from 

 $. liowqua. 



228. Stichophthalma louisa, Wood-Mason (Thaumantis), P. A. S. B. 

 1877, p. 163 ; M. # de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 311 ; Moore. 

 Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 204, pi. 159, figs. 1, 1 a, <$ 2 • 



(S 2 • Upperside : basal half of fore and basal two-thirds of the 

 hind wing from pale to rich ochraceous, the outer halves of both 

 wings white tinged with lilacine ; a subterminal series of inwardly 

 pointed, large, hastate black marks coalescing with a terminal series 

 of black angular lunules. Underside : basal half of both fore and 

 hind wing pale dull ochraceous with a powdering of greenish 

 scales ; outer half wiiite, the hind wing with the postdiscal area 

 suffused with greenish ; the terminal margins of both wings 

 broadly dull ochraceous, darker on the hind wing than on the 

 fore wing ; a subbasal and a discal dark brown transverse sinuous 

 line meetingand crossing near the tornus of the hind wing, followed 

 on both fore and hind wing by irregular white and suffused dark 

 brown bands, then a series of ocelli, five on fore and five on the hind 

 wing, the former pale brown, the latter ochraceous red with black 

 irides, the apical and the posterior ocelli the largest ; finally a 

 suffused large black tornal spot on the hind wing. Male sex-mark 

 as noted for the genus. 



Exp. <$ 2 133-143 mm. (5-3-5-6"). 



Hab. The foot of the hill-ranges in Burma and Tenasserim. 



Appears only in April and May. 



