DICHOEEAGIA. — STIBOCHIONA. 
Appears to be not uncommon in the mountainous district of Central Japan, 
but the female seems to be rare. I have specimens from Omei-shan and the 
neighbourhood of Ta-chien-lu in Western China : do Niceville states that the 
species is common in Sikkim at low elevations and that its range extends as 
far as Sibsagar in Upper Assam. It also occurs in Borneo. 
Genus STIBOCHIONA. 
Stibochiona, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1868, p. 614. 
" Allied to Biadema alimcna, but differing from it, from Apatura, and from Adolias in having the 
discoidal cells of both wings distinctly closed, the middle and lower discocellulars of fore 
wing forming a continuons arch, the upper discocellular of hind wing obliquely arched, the 
lower a little longer than the upper, slightly arched, and meeting the median nervure 
somewhat obliquely at the origin of the second and third branches. Colours intermediate 
between Adolias coc>/tns and Diadema cdimena. Typical species S. coresia, Hiibner." 
{Butler, 1. c.) 
Stibochiona nicea. 
Adolias nicea, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 13, pi. xii. fig. 1 (181G) ; Moore, Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1859, p. 83. 
Stibochiona nicea, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1868, p. 614 ; de Niceville, Butt. Ind. 
ii. p. 120, pi. xix. fig. 84, (1886). 
Adolias dolope, Felder, Wien. ent. Mon. vol. iii. p. 184 (1859). 
" Male. TJpperside velvety black. Fore wing with a marginal, short submarginal, and a shorter 
third row of small white spots, the marginal row bounded inwardly by a row of small 
indistinct blue spots, also indistinct blue marks within discoidal cell. Hind wing with a 
marginal row of black spots encircled with blue inwardly, and with white outwardly. Cilia 
white. Underside brown-black. Fore wing as above. Hind wing with marginal row of 
white lunulated spots, and a submarginal row of minute white dots. 
" Female. Upperside marked as in the male, but washed with olive-green, the marginal row of 
encircled spots of hind wing larger, and with a submarginal narrow greenish line. Underside 
with the three rows of white spots on fore wing extending to posterior margin. On the 
hind wing the marginal row of lunulated spots are larger, and there is a submarginal row of 
white spots, also a third inner row of bluish-white spots." (Moore, I. c.) 
Widely distributed, in AVestern China, and in India it appears to occur 
throughout the Himalayas up to an elevation of 5000 feet. 
Mr. Hocking {teste de Niceville) states that *S^. nicea "flies like Papilio 
pammon, following the line of a hedge and passing in and out between the 
bushes ; " and Mr. de Niceville adds from his own observation that it has a 
quick flight and frequently settles with wings widely expanded, sometimes on 
the underside of a leaf. 
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