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side of the fore wing and the larger one on the hindwing sometimes show through on 
the upperside. Body beneath, palpi, and legs pale olivescent-brown. 
Expanse, <J 1|-, ? 2 inches. 
Dry-Season Brood (Plate 55, fig. 1, c. <J). 
Male and female. Larger than the wet-season form. Upperside somewhat 
paler, the apical oblique band on the forewing whiter in colour, and broader. Under¬ 
side also paler, especially from the base of the wings, and of an ochreous-brown 
tint, the transverse discal line of the basal area more sharply defined and outwardly 
edged with diffused lilacine-grey; the marginal border much paler ochreous. 
Forewing with the oblique apical fascia lilacine-white and broadly diffused externally ; 
ocelli indicated by minute white dots. Hindwing with the ocelli also minute, the 
second, third, and fourth upper being indicated by white dots. 
Expanse, c? 2-J-, ? 2f inches. 
Habitat. —S. India (Nilgiris, Trevandrum, Travancore); Sikkim; Assam ; 
Khasia and Naga Hills. 
Distribution. —On the Nilgiris, Mr. Gr. P. Hampson obtained it at 3000 to 5000 
feet elevation in heavy forest; not common, August and March (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 
348). Mr. H. Fergus soil took it in the Ashamboo Hills, Travancore, not uncommonly 
in March and May at 3000 to 4000 feet (Butt. Ind. i. 106). The dry-season form 
has been taken in Travancore at 1500 feet in April, In Sikkim. Mr. de Niceville 
obtained it in October at 2000 feet (Butt. Ind. i. 106). Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Ent. 
Soc. 1888, 304) says it is “ not uncommon in the hot valleys of Sikkim up to 3000 feet 
during the greater part of the year.” It is also recorded from Assam, the Khasia and 
Naga Hills. In Cachar, Mr. J. "Wood-Mason (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 348) says cc one 
male was taken near Silcuri in August, and another on Nemotha Peak in September.” 
In Burma, Dr. N. Manders (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 517) records the capture of a single 
specimen in the Shan States near Thibaw in February. Captain Bingham took it 
on the Donat range in Upper Tenasserim in January and October (Butt. Ind. i. 106), 
and Mr. O. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 825) obtained it at Ahsown; and Moolai 3000 
to 6000 feet. Major C. H. E. Adamson (List of Burmese Butterflies, p. 6) records 
it from Moulmein and Arakan in April. Mr. W. Doherty obtained the dry-season 
form in E. Pegu at 500 to 2000 feet in March and April. Mr. W. L. Distant 
(Rhop. Malay. 416) records the wet-season form from Perak, Malay Peninsula. 
Virapa Badza (Plate 55, fig. 2, 2a, $ ). 
Mycalesis Radza, Moore, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 583, pi. 58, fig. 2, <J. 
Virapa Radza , Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 156. 
Mycalesis ( Virapa ) Radza , Marshall and de NTiceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 105 (1883). 
Imago.— Upperside dark brown ; marginal lines indistinctly paler, with the inter- 
