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oblique medial-discal pale oclireous-yellow sinuous-edged band, wbicb extends from 

 the costa to the lower median and terminates near the outer margin ; a subapical 

 yellow triangular dot before the apex, Eindiving unmarked ; the abdominal margin 

 with the longitudinal raised fold bordering the submedian, its scabrous glandular 

 patch, and erect tuft of hairs paler red. Underside paler and of a brownish-ochreous 

 tint of colour. Forewing with the oblique yellow band as above ; a dark brown 

 slender zigzag line crossing the cell, and two sinuous lines before the outer margins ; 

 before the apex are two small superposed yellow dots, the upper one minute, followed 

 below by an ocellated spot and then by two lower yellow dots. Hindwing crossed 

 by two zigzag subbasal and two sinuous submarginal slender brown lines which 

 terminate at the submedian vein ; the discal area also being traversed by a series 

 of eight ocellated spots, the two upper being conjoined, and the sixth large, the 

 others more or less small, the former with a large brown-and-grey-speckled centre, 

 minute black-speckled yellow pupil, and nari'ow yellow outer ring, the others more 

 or less imperfectly developed. Body beneath, legs and palpi, pale brownish-ochreous ; 

 antennjB red. 



Female. Larger than the male. TJpperside of the same colour ; the oblique 

 yellow band on the forewing somewhat broader, the white apical spot more distinct. 

 Underside as in the male, except that all the markings are more distinctly defined. 



Expanse, c? 2j^o to 2^^i, ? 2^^ to S^^q inches. 



Habitat. — Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula. 



Distribution. — Within our limits, this species is found in Upper Tenasserim, 

 where Mr. Ossian Limborg took it " near Moolai, at 3000 to 6000 feet altitude " 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, 827), and " Capt. C. T. Bingham also obtained it on the 

 Donat Range and in the lower Thoungyeen forests in April" (Butt. Ind. 285). 

 Major C. H. E. Adamson (List, p. 10) records it from " Tavoy and Tenasserim, 

 frequenting thick evergreen forests, September." Also " taken at Tavoy and at 

 Ponsekai" (Elwes, J. A. S. Bengal, 1887, 419). 



DiSTEiBUTiON OUTSIDE OUR AREA. — This species occurs in the Malay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, Nias Island (these being very dark coloured), Java (Coll. Distant), and 

 Borneo, where, according to Mr. W. B. Pryer — (Ann. X. H. 1887, 51) — who obtained 

 it in Sandakan, N. Borneo, " it frequents only the shade of the high forest." 



The following additional species of the genus Stichophthalma has recently been 

 discovered in Manipur, namely : — 



STICHOPHTHALMA SPAKTA (Plate 167, figs. 2, 2a, q')- 

 Stichophthalma Sparta, de Niccville, Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 189 1, p. 3, pi. 1, fig. 4, (^. 

 Imago. — " Male. Upperside. Both wings deep rich reddish fulvous or 

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