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wing silvery white and rapidly narrowing posteriorly to a point, 

 followed by a narrow interval of the brown ground-colour and a dark 

 brown, somewhat irregular band ; a postdiscal series of ferruginous- 

 red lunules, lined outwardly with dark browu ; subterminal dark 

 brown and pale lines and terminal margin as on the fore wing ; 

 abdominal fold thickly sprinkled with golden scales. Underside 

 similar with similar markings, but ground-colour and markings all 

 very much paler, the latter blurred and ill-defined. Fore wing : a 

 transverse series of diffuse whitish marks in the interspaces beyond 

 discal band, a pale line on the inner as well as on the outer side of 

 the subterminal dark line. Hind wing : basal area suffused with 

 shining blue, outwardly defined by a black line, the transverse row 

 of whitish diffuse marks beyond discal band as on fore wing, but 

 continuous, not detached. Antennse brown; head, thorax and 

 abdomen dark brown; palpi, thorax and abdomen beneath white. 



Exp. $ 2 90-100 mm. (3'56-3'92"). 



Bab. Sikhim, 6000-8000 ft.? Assam, the Khasi Hills. 



312. Liminitis daraxa (PL VI, fig. 43), Doubkday, inDblday., Westw.. 

 £ Hew. Gen. Di. Lep. ii, 1850, p. 276, pi. 34, fig. 4 ; de N. Butt, 

 lnd. ii, 1886, p. 158 ; Moore (Sumalia), Lep. hid. iii, 1896-99, 

 p. 152, pi. 250, figs. 2, 2 a, 2 b. 



S $ • Upperside dark velvety brown. Fore and hind wings 

 w r ith the usual basal markings black but very obscure against the 

 dark brown ground-colour; a comparatively broad pale green 

 macular discal band traversed by the dark veins, the anterior 

 three spots detached and in a line towards apex, the apical spot very 

 small ; a postdiscal obscure black transverse band followed by a 

 row of velvety-black spots, more distinct on the hind than 

 on the fore wing; a subterminal similarly coloured band on 

 the hind wing only ; a terminal band also ; cilia black, alternated 

 with white ; a ferruginous-red patch on the tornus of hind wing 

 surrounding the subtomal two black spots of the postdiscal series. 

 Underside ferruginous. Fore and hind wings with the basal 

 markings darker ferruginous ; in fore wing the base, the space 

 between the medial and apical pair of short lines in cell, and a bar 

 beyond apex of cell pale lilac, the loop-like spot in the base of 

 interspace 1 surrounded by lilacine white ; in hind wing the basal 

 area and abdominal fold suffused with lilacine; the discal band 

 crossing both wings as on the upperside, but very much paler, 

 almost white ; the postdiscal row of spots very small, each spot 

 placed on a bright lilac ground, margined inwardly on the hind 

 wing b} r a dark ferruginous lunule ; subterminal and terminal dark 

 ferruginous bands with a pale line interposed between them. 



Exp. 6 £ 70-75 mm. (275-2'93"). 



Hab. The Himalayas, Kumaun to Sylhet ; Bhutan ; Cachar ; 

 Assam, the Naga and Khasi Hills ; Burma; Tenasserim, extending 

 to the Malav Peninsula. 



