DICHORRAGIA. — STIBOCHIANA. 



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pointed loops, and a subterainal row of minute transverse white 

 spots ; the row of white slender loops in the 2 is doubled, and 



sometimes also in the $ . Hind 

 wing : apex of cell and disc of wing 

 with bluish-green spots ; the an- 

 terior subcostal spot large and 

 white ; a postdiscal series of elongate 

 oval velvety-black spots, succeeded 

 by a series of slender white loops 

 and beyond by a row of slender 

 transverse white spots as on the 

 fore wing, the space enclosed by 

 the loops and the outer row of 

 transverse white spots or short 

 lines velvety black. Underside: 

 fore wing purplish black ; hind 

 wing dull opaque black ; the mark- 

 ings much as on the upperside but 

 larger, more clearly defined, except 

 the spots on the disc of the hind 

 wing, which are obscure. On the fore wing the spots in the cell 

 join and form prominent transverse purplish-blue bars, and on 

 the hind wing the postdiscal series of velvety-black spots are 

 more conspicuous. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dull 

 black. 



Exp. 6 2 76-88 mm. (3-3-48"). 



Hah. The Himalayas from Kulu to Sikhim ; the hill-ranges of 

 Assam, Burma and Tenasserim, extending to the Malayan Sub- 

 region, China and ? Japan {Leech). 



Fig. 49. 

 Dichorragia nesimachus. 



Genus STIBOCHIANA. 



Adolias, pt., Felder, Ein Neues Lep. 1861, p. 35. 

 Stihochiana, Butler, P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 614 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, 

 p. 120 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 76. 



Type, S. coresia, Hiibner, from Java. 



Range. The Himalayas from Kulu to Sikhim ; the hill-ranges 

 of Assam, Burma and Tenasserim, extending to Western China 

 and the Malayan Subregion. 



c? 2 • I have retained this genus, following Messrs. Butler, 

 Moore, and deMceville, but it is very closely allied to Dichorragia. 

 The only structural difference I can find is that in Stihochiana 

 the discoidal cell in both fore and hind wings is very much 

 shorter proportionately than it is in Dichorragia, measuring barely 

 a third of the length of the fore wing. In shape and ueuration 

 of the wings, in length and form of the antennas and palpi, and in 

 possessing hairy eyes, Stihochiana is identical with Dichorragia. 

 As in that genus, only a single form is recorded from within our 

 limits. 



