296 NYMPHALID^. 



313. Liminitis dudu, Westwood, in Dblday., Westw. 8f Heio. Gen. Di. 

 Lep. ii, 1850, p. 276 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 159, pi. 24, 

 fig. 112 tf; Moore (Sumalia), Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 150, 

 pi. 250, figs. 1, la, 16, c?$- 



S 2 • Upperside rich dark brown. Fore wing : cell with a 

 medial and an apical transverse short red band, each margined 

 inwardly and outwardly by short dark black lines, the medial 



band crossing over into interspace 1, 

 the apical band along the disco- 

 cellulars ; both fore and hind wing 

 with a common broad, transverse, 

 white discal band, narrowing and bent 

 inwards above vein 4 on fore wing 

 and at that point its outer margin 

 somewhat diffuse ; the brown ground- 

 colour extends as a streak inwards 

 in interspaces 4 and 5, the outer 

 margin posteriorly on fore wing and 

 along its whole length on hind wing 

 bordered by a dark slightly sinuous 

 line followed by a narrow pale inter- 

 space, above which the costa of fore 

 Fig. 55.— Liminitis dudu. \. wing is touched with red ; a post- 



discal band of lunules, pale on the 

 fore, dark red on the hind wing, and pale ashy- brown sub- 

 terminal and terminal lines divided by a narrow band of the dark 

 brown ground-colour, these pale lines turning to red at the 

 tornal angle. Underside pale lilac washed with silvery white. 

 Pore wing : the red transverse cellular marks much as on the 

 upperside, but paler ; similar basal marks in interspace 1 ; the 

 discal band as on the upperside, but broader, margined on both 

 sides by chestnut-red lines ; a preapical chestnut-red patch 

 merging into an ochraceous patch on apex ; below the apex the 

 termen broadly chestnut-red to vein 1, traversed subterminally by 

 a traus verse dark chestnut line. Hind wing with two oval silvery 

 spots in cell and a similar larger spot at base of interspace 7 ; 

 the transverse white discal band as on the fore wing, the outer 

 bordering chestnut-red line widened at tornal angle into a large 

 chestnut-red patch ; termen narrowly white, touched in the inter- 

 spaces with pale lilac and defined on the inner side by a dark 

 line. Antennae brown, the club ochraceous beneath ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen dark brown ; beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen 

 lilacine white. 



Exp. tf 2 72-92 mm. (2-82-3-6"). 



Bab. Sikhim ; Nepal, eastwards through the Naga and Khasi 

 Hills in Assam to the hills in Upper Burma. 



