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tliree portions as in Chandica, but the upper portion smaller and narrower, these 
white spots externally bordering the dark angular discal line; beyond is a white 
apical spot and some very slight indications of pale lower spots. Hindwing with a 
slightly-defined discal angulated brown line, and five outer pale-ringed black spots, 
the two upper of which are the largest and obliquely oval in shape ; marginal border 
brownish, marginal lines dark brown. Underside pale olivescent ochreous-brown, 
the inner borders of the discal line, the triangular costal patch, and the marginal 
lines dark brown. Forewing with a dark brown slightly-angulated subbasal line, and 
an angular discal white macular band, as on upperside, beyond which are six pale 
ochreous-brown ocelli, the one between the middle and upper median being pushed 
outward by the dentate white spot. Hindwing with a slightly-angulated subbasal 
line, and an irregular-angulated discal line, which latter is acutely pointed and 
extended upon the upper median veinlet; six outer ocelli, the three upper and the 
lowest with black centre speckled with white, the fourth and fifth paler but similar, 
all are smaller and narrower than in Chandica and more or less reniform in shape, the 
upper one being somewhat the largest. Body beneath, legs, and sides of palpi pale 
ochreous. 
Expanse, c? 2§, ? 3| inches. 
Habitat. —Sikkim ; Bhotan. 
Distinguishable from D. Chandica in the male having on the upperside the 
exterior half of the hindwing red, the underside paler, the discal line on the forewing 
more acutely angulated on the upper and middle median, but less so on the hindwing, 
and on the hindwing the ocelli are all smaller, less prominently developed, but 
similarly shaped. In the female, the upperside is paler and brighter coloured, the 
macular white angular band composed of somewhat smaller portions, and the black 
spots on the hindwing more defined. On the underside the ground-colour is similar 
to that of Mehara , but more ochreous in tint than in Chandica , the subbasal line on 
both wings is less regular than in Mehara but is also less angulated than in Chandica , 
the white macular-bordered angular discal line on the forewing is more concave pos¬ 
teriorly than in Mehara 9 but less so than in Chandica , and on the hindwing the discal 
line is projected more outward upon the upper median than in Mehara , but much 
less so than in Chandica; in Bistans these two lines on the hindwing are nearer each 
other than in Mehara , and the discal line on this wing is much less incurved at its 
anterior end than in Chandica ; the ocelli on the forewing are similar to those in 
Mehara , these, in both species, being smaller than those in Chandica ; the ocelli on the 
hindwing are also smaller and more regularly reniform in shape. 
It is probable that distans may be ultimately proved to be the dry-season form 
of Chandica . 
Distribution.— There are specimens of both sexes, from Darjiling, in the 
vol. i. — March 4th, 1892. k k 
