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parallel row of small black spots between the outer and middle bands ; within each discoidal 
cell are two narrow and rather sqnare-shaped spaces, those on the hind wing being the 
narrowest. Underside dull brown, marked as above with deep brown, but the two inner 
bands broad, the outer very narrow ; on the hiud wing, above the marks, within discoidal 
cell, is a narrow brown mark ; the outer margins are also deep brown." {Moore, I. c.) 
Occurs commonly in Western China at Moupin, A¥a-shan, Omei-shan, Chia- 
kou-ho, and Huang-mu-chang, and I received one specimen from Ichang in 
Central China. In India it is found in the Himalayas, Sylhet, Assam, Chitta- 
gong, and Burma. 
Genus PRECIS. 
Precis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 33 (1816) ; Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 89 (1883). 
Junonia, sect. 2, Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 209 (1849). 
" Anterior wings subtriangular, the costal margin very strongly arched and convex ; apical angle 
obliquel}' truncate and prominent, and together with remainder of outer margin distinctly 
waved ; beneath the apical angle the outer margin is strongly sinuated and concave, after 
which it is convex to posterior angle ; inner margin more or less concave. Costal nervure 
short; first and second subcostal nervules emitted close together near end of cell; third 
emitted about halfway between end of cell and apex of wing ; fourth and fifth bifurcating at 
about one fourth from apex. Upper discocellular nervules angled at apex of cell and concave 
to lower discoidal nervule ; lower discocellular ncrvule slender and indistinct, or somewhat 
obsolete. Discoidal nervules well separated at their base ; first median ncrvule rounded at 
base, where it has an apparently common origin with the second; second and third nervules 
widely separated. Posterior wings subovatc, the costal margin oblicjucly convex ; outer 
margin very convex, waved, and produced into a short caudate appendage at anal angle. 
Abdominal margins convex and overlapping at base, and then distinctly concave and slightly 
divergent to anal angles. Costal nervure arched and extending to apex ; discoidal nervule 
emitted a little beyond the bifurcation of the subcostal nervules ; discoidal cell with the ajjex 
entirely open ; median nervules arranged much as in anterior wings. 13ody short ; pal^n long, 
porrect, and pointed ; antenna) slender, gradually thickened towards apex." (Bislant, I. c.) 
Precis iphita. 
Papiliu iphita, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ill. pi. ccix. figs. C, D (1779). 
Precis iphita, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 39, pi. xxi. figs. 1,1a (imago), 1 b (larva and pupa) 
(1881) ; Distant, Rliop. Malay, p. 90, pi. xi. fig. 9, ^ > pl- ix. fig. 5, ? var, (1882) ; 
de Nicevillc, Butt. Ind. ii. p. 63, pi. xix. lig. 81.,c^ (1886). 
Junonia iphita, Hutler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 76 (1869). 
Precis intermedia^ Feldcr, lleisc Novara, Lep. iii. p. 402 (1866). 
' Alale and Fenude. Wings above fuliginous brown, variable in intensity of hue. Anterior wings 
with two transverse faaciaJ crosBing cell, tlie margins of wliicli arc very irregular and dark 
fuHcouH, the first situate about centre and tlie second near ajwx ; tlie a])ical half of wing is 
somewhat paler, and inwardly bounded ])y a dark fascia connnencing near costa and out- 
wardly and oblifpiely directed to first nicdiiin ncrvule, from (lience reflected inwardly and 
