DODOl^A. 485 



the discal fascia and base of wing, a very broad elongate triangular 

 upper postdiscal silvery patch, followed by a series of transverse 

 slender black markings terminating at the apex in two black spots 

 set in a quadrate silvery patch ; lobe and slender tail jet-black, mar- 

 gined on the inner side by a white line and surmounted by a grey 

 tornal patch. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen blackish brown ; 

 beneath, palpi, thorax and abdomen greyish white. — $ . Upperside 

 brownish black, much paler than in the S ; markings similar but 

 very much larger and paler, especially the upper postdiscal spots 

 on the fore wing. Underside similar to that of the <$ ; ground- 

 colour paler, silvery markings much broader. 



Exp. tf 2 44-50 mm. (1-75-1-99"). 



Hah. The Himalayas, Kashmir to Bhutan ; Assam, Khasi and 

 jN T cio-a Hills. 



465. Dodona ouida, Moore, P. Z. S. I860, p. 771 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 

 1886, p. 311; Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 70, pi. 397, 

 figs. 1,1 fl-lc, c?$. 



S . Upperside ochraceous brown. Pore wing with a yellow 

 oblique band from subcostal vein crossing cell to vein 1, followed 

 by a broader similar dark brown band, then a yellow oblique band, 

 broadest in the middle, extending from costal margin to above 

 tornus ; a dark brown oblique band broadest anteriorly from costal 

 margin to tornus ; an erect, somewhat irregular, subterminal yellow 

 band ; and the apex and termen dark brown, the apex with two 

 minute white dots. Hind wing : postdiscal and inner and outer 

 subterminal obscure incomplete yellow bands, all three bordered on 

 the inner side with blackish brown ; the outer subterminal band 

 with two superposed black spots near apex ; tornal lobe dark 

 chestnut-red, margined on the inner and outer sides by short 

 slender white lines. Underside dark ochraceous red, the yellow 

 bands as on the upperside, but not clearly defined, the inmost band 

 more or less whitish, the medial band terminating in a compara- 

 tively large white spot on the costa, the subterminal band very 

 obscure, terminating in two white spots on the costa, the minute 

 white preapical spots as on the upperside. Hind wing : ground- 

 colour darker than on the fore wing : obscure subbasal, discal, 

 inner and outer subterminal pale purplish macular fasciae ; the 

 subbasal and discal fasciae angulated upwards on vein 1 towards 

 the dorsum, the subterminal two fasciae terminating on the margin 

 of a grey tornal patch placed above the lobe ; this last black with 

 white linear margins on inner and outer sides ; the subbasal fascia 

 terminating on the costal margin in a white spot, the discal 

 fascia in a black spot outwardly margined by a prominent white 

 dot; the subapical two spots encircled with white. Antennae, 

 head, thorax and abdomen ochraceous brown ; beneath, the palpi, 

 thorax and legs bright ochraceous red ; abdomen whitish. — 

 2 • Upperside brown, the apical half of the fore wing of a darker 

 shade than the basal half. Fore wing with a broad oblique white 



