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Occurs at Icliang in Central China, and is generally distributed throughout 
Western China, where it is far more common than *S'. asthala. There is 
some variation in the width of the yellow markings, and one or two specimens 
approach the form to wliicli iNlr. Moore has given the name of daru/ia. 
De Niceville (I.e.) states tliat in India '■'S. Iiippoclits is the widest spread 
species of the genus, and tlic most abundant in individuals where met with. 
It occurs in India throughout tlic Himalayas and Assam to Upper Tenasserim, 
and again in the Eastern Ghats." 
Symbrenthia asthala. (Plate XXV. fig. 2, j .) 
Symbrenthia astltala, Moore, Pioc. Zool. See. Loud. 1874, p. 209, pi. xliii. fig. 9, (J ; 
Dolierty, Journ. A. S. B. Iv. pt. 2, p. 122 (1886) ; dc Niceville, Butt. lud. ii. p. 2M, 
pl.xxiii. fig. lOG, (J (I88G). 
" Male. Differs from -S". luipselix in being mucli smaller. On the uppersido the bands arc of the 
same orange-red colour, but of a different shape and broader, the oblique subapical streak of 
fore wing being lengthened and extending nearlj' across the apex. On the underside 
the colour is nearly uniform orange-yellow, the tesselations somewhat different, and the sub- 
marginal band composed of imperfectly formed conical lunules, partly dashed with metallic 
green ; lunules from anal angle to tail similar to those in >S'. hypselis." {Moore, 1. c.) 
" Female. Differs from the male in the red markings on the upperside being paler, the apical 
band of fore wing wider and longer, extending from the extreme costa almost to the outer 
margin, approaching the discoidal band, remote from the lower band, having a deep sinus on 
its lower side and a streak given out upwardly from its outer end. Lower band broad, its 
upper part clavate, displaced outwardly above the lower median nervule ; discoidal band 
irregular, heavy, its end produced below the middle median nervule. Lower band of hind 
wing extends only to the second subcostal nervule, with only a trace of a submarginal line 
bevond it. Underside nearly uniform orange-tawny, the base of both wings and costa 
of fore wing paler oehreous." {Dohi-rtij, I. c.) 
Occurs at Chang-yang and Ichaug in Central China, and at Chia-kou-ho in 
Western China. It is on the wing from June to September. 
According to de Niceville {I. c.) S. asthala is confined to the North-west 
Himalayas. It seems curious that this species should be found in China and 
the N.W. Himalayas, and yet should not occur in Sikkim, where it is replaced 
by a close ally, S. hypselis, Godart. 
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