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with a silvery cloud, from which a faint ferruginous line runs across the wings nearly to the 

 anal angle, touching a spot in place of the rounded spot of the upper surface, but of a paler 

 colour. Legs nearly white. 



" This species may be known from Gonepteryx verhuellii by its rounded posterior wings, and from 

 Gon. lycorias by the large spot of the anterior wings and other characters." {Douhleday,l. c.) 



Female {iwania, Butler). " Ilpperside : front wings pale yellow, deeper at the outer margin ; 

 anterior margin much curved, and ending at its outer extremity in a sharp, uncated apical 

 point ; outer margin slightly sinuated on its upper edge ; apex brown, deeply sinuated and 

 dentated ; a large, perfectly circular, deep-brown spot between the first and second sub- 

 median nervules. Posterior wings somewhat quadrate, pale yellow, deeper at the outer 

 margin. 



" Underside : front wings dirty yellow, paler on the inner margin ; discoidal cell irrorated with 

 brick-red : a small irregular silver spot surrounded with red in the middle of the end of the 

 cell, with a minute vertical lunule just above it ; the costal and subcostal nervures ending in 

 small red spots ; a somewhat triangular silver dash on the anterior margin, close to the apex ; a 

 large ferruginous round spot, ending below in a fine oblique red line, between the first iind second 

 submedian nervules ; two small, longitudinal, oblong, pale brown spots placed obliquelj" between 

 it and the silver apical dash. Posterior wings dirty yellow ; cell irrorated with brick-red, a 

 small irregular silver spot, surrounded with red, in the middle of the end of the cell, with a 

 minute red lunule just above it ; a small brown lunule above the end of the cell, and halfway 

 between it and the anterior margin ; a band of oblong pale brown spots crossing the wing 

 between the nervules, and following the direction of the outer margin." {Butler, I. c.) 



Although described as a distinct species urania is without doubt the female 

 of D. wallicMi. 



Chinese specimens of D. wallichii are rather larger than those from India. 

 In the males the costa towards apex is marked with red, and there is an 

 oblique streak of the same colour, interrupted by the nervules, from the apical 

 black patch. The under surface is identical with that of Indian specimens 

 of the same sex. The females from both countries are alike. 



Fairly common throughout Central and Western China at moderate eleva- 

 tions ; the female is scarcer than the male. 



Elwcs (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 415) refers to a specimen from the 

 interior of Sikkim, but the species must be rare in that district, as there were 

 no examples of it in the collection of the late Otto MoUer. It seems, 

 however, to be plentiful in the Khasia Hills, 



In his ' Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera ' Kirby (p. 489) gives China as 

 a locality for I), verhuellii, an allied species, but this was not observed in any 

 part of the country visited by my collectors. 



