276 NYMPHALID.E. 
parallel row of small black spots between the outer and middle bands ; within each discoidal 
cell are two narrow and rather square-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 hind wing, above the marks, within discoidal 
cell, is a narrow brown mark ; the outer margins are also deep brown." {Moore, I. c.) 
Occiu's commonly in Western China at Moupin, Wa-shan, Omei-shan, Chia- 
kou-ho, and Huang-mu-chang, and I received one specimen from Ichang in 
Central China. In India it is fonnd 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 
obliquely 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 nervnre 
short ; first and second subcostal neiTules emitted close together near end of cell ; third 
emitted about halfway between end of cell and apes 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 nervule slender and indistinct, or somewhat 
obsolete. Discoidal nervules well separated at their base ; first median nervule 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 obliquely convex ; outer 
margin vcr}- 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 apex 
entirely open ; median nervules arranged much as in anterior wings. Body short ; palpi long, 
porrect, and pointed ; anteuuce slender, gradually thickened towards apex." {Distant, I. c.) 
Precis iphita. 
Papilio iphita, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. ccix. figs. C, D (1779). 
Precis iphita, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 39^ pl.xxi. figs. \,\a (inoago), 1 b (larva and pupa) 
(1881) ; Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 90, pi. xi. fig. 9, J, pi. ix. fig. 5, ? var. (1882) ; 
de Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. p. 63, pi. xix. fig. 84, (? (1886). 
Junonia iphita, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 76 (1869). 
Precis intermedia, Felder, Raise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 402 (1866). 
' Male and Female. Wings above fuliginous brown, variable in intensity of hue. Anterior wings 
with two transverse fascisB crossing cell, the margins of which are very irregular and dark 
fuscous, the first situate about centre and the second near apex ; the apical half of wing is 
somewhat paler, and inwardly bounded by a dark fascia commencing near eosta and out- 
wardly and obliquely directed to first median nervule, from thence reflected inwardly and 
