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margin ; extreme posterior mar{;in lilaikisli, lioiiiiiled inwardly l)y a siilimargiiial row of 
white lines. Hind wing with the inner hand extending across ahdoniinal margin ; space 
between base of wing and costal vein white ; extreme exterior margin blackisli, bounded 
inwardly by a marginal row of narrow lunnhir marks. Body white. Expanse 3 inches."' 
{Moore, I. c.) 
The ftmah is larger, but does not otherwise differ from the male. 
Some specimens from Omei-shan and Wa-shan agree exactly with 
Sikkim examples, but the majority of Chinese A.jina are darker than the 
type, the Avhite bands ai'e not quite so broad, and the white spots are smaller, 
agreeing in this respect with Chinese A. opalina and A. asura. 
Rather common at Omci-slian, Wa-shan, and Moupin in Western Cliina ; 
occm's also at Ichang and Chang-yang in Central China, and is found in June 
and July at various elevatious up to 6000 feet. 
In his paper on the Lepidoptera of Sikkim (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 
p. 353), Mr. Elwes says that A.jina is "not a common species, and, as far as 
I know, confined, like so many of the species peculiar to Sikkim, to the zone 
of heavy forest between 6000 and 8000 feet, where I have taken it in July." 
Athyma fortuna. (Plate XVII. figs. 2 d' , l d var.) 
Atlujma fortuna, Leccli^ Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1889, p. 107, pi. r(\\. figs. 1, \a. 
Athyma fortuna, \&r. diffusa, Leech, Entomologist, xsiii. p. 34- (1890). 
Male. Upper surface smoky black, with a slight purplish reflection in certain lights. Primaries : 
discoidal streak club-shaped, entire ; discal band represented by a series of nine white or 
opaline spots, of which the third, fourth, and fifth, as also the eighth and ninth, are only- 
separated by the nerves. Two small spots and a faint curved linear mark at the outer angle 
are the only submargiual markings. Secondaries : a broad and almost straight central 
white or opaline band, interrupted only by the subcostal nervule, and on the hind margin a 
white or opaline bar tapering from the anal angle towards the costa and intersected by the 
nervules, forming a series of six spots. 
Female. Upper surface brownish black. Discal streak terminates in a dot beyond the cell. 
Markings as in the male, but spots smaller and of a creamy tint. Fringes white, chequered 
with black at the extremities of the nervules. 
Under surface of all the wings orange-brown. The discal area and a quadrate spot at anal angle 
of primaries black. "White markings much as on upper surface, but not confluent, and the 
streak terminates in a sharp poiut just outside the cell. There is also a whitish line bounding 
the lower two thirds of outer margin, and two small white spots, one above and the other 
directly below the discal streak. A series of black crescent-shaped marks commences near 
the costa, and, skirting the external edges of apical spots, runs parallel with outer margin 
to black spot at anal angle : these marks arc bordered externally with white. Markings on 
the secondaries as on the upper surface, but with the addition of a fairly broad basal streak, 
which is bluish grey in the male, but white in female, and bluish-grey abdominal fold. 
Expanse, cf T-l miUim., § 84 millim. 
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