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Mr. de Niceville says : " I find that S. chandrana is one of the most variable 

 of the Lyceenidge. In the Western Himalayas, from Avhence I have the 

 fewest specimens, it appears to be fairly constant, the catenulated bands of 

 the underside narrow and clearly defined. It is in Sikkim and Assam that 

 the species varies so much. Here typical chandrana is occasionally met 

 with, but the more common form has the bands of the underside much 

 broader, often more or less confluent, very prominent, and the ground-colour 

 much darker. The females show extraordinary variability on the upperside. 

 Some specimens are entirely glossy fuliginous black, with some obscure 

 irrorated white patches between the veins near the outer margin of the hind 

 wing ; others have a small whity-ochreous patch on the fore wing, with the 

 white on the hind wing more developed ; others have a large whity- 

 ochreous patch on the fore wing, the outer half of the hind wing also white ; 

 lastly Mr. M oiler possessed a very aberrant Sikkim specimen in which there 

 is a bright ochreous somewhat large oval patch on the disc of the fore wing, 

 the hind wing unmarked." 



Listrihution. Central China, Foochau, Upper Burma, Assam, Himalayas. 



Genus CHRYSOPHANUS. 



Chrysophanus, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 72 (1816) Westwood, Geii. Diuru. 



Lep. ii. p. 497 (1852) ; de Kiceville, Butt. Iiid. iii. p. 313 (1890). 

 Folyommatus, Boisduval, Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 9 (1840). 

 Lyccena, sect. 3 (part.), Fiibricius, 111. Mag. vi, p. 285 (1807). 

 Heodes (part.), Dalman, Kongl. Veteiisk. Acad. Hand, xxxvii. p. G3 (1816). 



" General characters of Lyccena, but with the eyes naked, and the upperside of the wiugs 

 generally copper-coloured. 



" Head small, hairy. 



" Luhiul jKilpi obliquely porrcctcd, of moderate length ; the basal and middle joints thickly 

 clotliod with bristly hairs ; terminal joint slender, elongate, nearly naked, of nearly equal 

 length in both sexes. 



" Aritennfi of moderate length, slender; middle joints long, ringed with -white ; terminated by 

 a distinct elongate-ovate club, not or scarcely spoon-sliapod. 



*' Fore wirujs somewhat elongated, and more acute at the tip than in Lycamn, Avitli the veins and 

 their branches arranged as in that genus; the position of the slender discocollular veins 

 closing tlio discoidal cell indicated by a transverse black spot on the underside, which is 

 generally mndi ocolluted. 



" JlintJ v'ivfjn ovate, with (be anal angle more ])romiiient tlian in Lycnna ; the extremity of the 

 first brandi of the median vein is also often ])i-()diic('d inio a slight angle, especially in the 

 males ; marked beneath with hlack spots similar to those of the fore wings. 



