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LEMONIID.E. 
Dodona ouida. 
Dodona ouida, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 771 ; Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. 
{Dodona) pi. i. figs. 4, 5,^^, 6, ? (1866) ; de Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. p. 311 (1886). 
Taxila erato, Boisduval, MS., Horsfield & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. T. C. i. p. 243 
(1857). 
" Male. Uppeisidc brownish black : fore wing with three transverse discal equidistant ferruginous 
bands, the medial one broadest, the first two oblique ; two white dots at apex : hind wing 
with transverse discal and two narrow marginal ferruginous bands ; anal lobe with a white 
bar and border. Underside dark ferruginous : fore wing with the transverse bands less 
defined, yellow, terminating on the costal margin in white spots ; two apical white spots : 
hind wing with bluish basal and purplish medial transverse discal interrupted bands, the latter 
with an inner border of brown, each having a white spot on the costal margin, that of the 
latter with a black inner border; two narrow marginal brown bands, two black purple- 
bordered dots at anterior angle, and black and white lines bordering the black lobe. 
" Female. Dull fidiginous brown, somewhat black apically : fore wing with medial broad transverse 
discal oblique white band, and an outer or submarginal narrow interrupted ferruginous-white 
line ; two apical dots white : hind wing with two marginal pale brown lines, terminated at 
the anterior angle with two pale-bordered black spots ; anal- lobe black. Underside as in 
male. 
"Expanse 1| inch." (Moore, 7. c.) 
Occurs at Moupin and Omei-shan, Western China. 
In Chinese specimens the central band on primaries of the male is broader 
than in Sikkim examples. 
Mr, de Niceville states that this is a widely distributed species in the outer 
Himalayas, and occurs eastwards to Upper Assam. 
Dodona eugenes. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 1, var.) 
Dodona euyenes, Jkitcs, Jourii. Linn. Soc., Zool. • . p. 371 (1867) ; dc Nicovillc, Butt. 
Ind. ii. p. 315 (1886). 
Dodona maculosa, Lcccli, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 41 (1890). 
Mitlc. (!losely allied to D. e</eon. AVings of tlie same shape, and llie form of the tail of tlie hind • 
wing the same. Ui)porsido dark, blackisli brown. Eore wing with a narrow line across the 
middle (touching neither the costa nor the hind margin), a curved streak near the hind angle, 
und about thirteen small spots pretty equally distributed over the apical half of the wing; 
fdl these m;irks an; whitish, exce])t tlie transverso line and marks near the hind angle, which 
are sliglitly tiiiti'il with reddish tawny. Hind wing witli the outer portion traversed l)y four 
iiidist inot l)i<)vvnisli tawny lines, converging IVom llu; cosla towards the anal angle; at the 
upex are two black sjiots edged with light, brown. On the Ijroad square lobe at the anal 
angle is a quadrate black sjxit, a slender tail arising from its outer edge. Underside: the 
wings are precisely similar to tliosc of />. ii/eon, lieing tawny brown, willi strijtes and spots of 
white, silky and sliining on tlu; liind wing and costa of fore wing. 
