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LEPID OPT ERA INDICA. 
slender indistinct blackisli zigzag line, the space between them and along the 
abdominal margin, with the outer discal area distinctly irrorated with ochreous- 
yellow scales. Female. TJpperside as in the male, except that on the hindwing the 
outer margin is strongly irrorated with yellow scales. Underside also as in the male. 
Body and legs beneath paler ochreous-brown ; forelegs beneath ochreous-yellow ; a 
streak on side of head and on sides of the palpi also ochreous-yellow; antennae 
reddish. 
Expanse, 3f to 4 inches. 
Habitat.— N.E. India (Sikkim; Bhotan ; Assam). 
Distribution and Habits. —“ This lovely insect is one of those most charac¬ 
teristic of the dark gloomy Oak and Chestnut forests of the Eastern Himalayas, and 
occurs from the end of June till September at 7000 to 9000 feet. It flies up and 
down the paths in dense forests, and settles on the ground or on tree trunks, when 
it is not so conspicuous as it is on the wing. The female is either much rarer or 
more seldom seen than the male; but I once saw one flying rapidly over the bare 
open top of the Observatory-hill at Jellapahar, which is a very favourite place for the 
females of many forest-loving butterflies to fly on sunny mornings in the rainy 
season, and, after a stiff race with a burly bombardier from the depot, who was a 
regular collector on this spot, I netted the prize. I found the species much 
commoner to the eastward, in British Bhotan than in Sikkim.(Elwes, Trails^ 
Ent. Soc. 1888, 307). It also occurs in Assam. 
NE0RINA WESTW00DIX (Plate 74, fig. 2, 2a, S ? ). 
Neorina Grishna , apud Marshall and de NTiceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 135, pi. xiv. fig. 34, 
(1883). ( 7iec Westivood .) 
Imago. —Male upperside rich dark purpurescent ochreous-brown; with two 
submarginal blackish broad lunular lines; cilia of the forewing posteriorly, and of 
the entire hindwing pale yellow. Foreiving with a broad pale yellow sinuous-bordered 
band crossing obliquely from middle of the costa to the posterior angle, the dis- 
cocellular veinlet being slenderly brown lined ; a large indistinctly defined black sub- 
apical spot centred by a white dot, above which are two inwardly-oblique pure white 
apical spots, and below it is another white dot placed at an outwardly-oblique angle 
to the one in the black spot. Hindwing with a short pale yellow band bordering the 
apical angle. Underside dark dusky olivescent ochreous-brown, palest on the apex 
of forewing; both wings with two prominent submarginal black sinuous lines; the 
inner submarginal line and the area within the submarginal line, on both wings, and 
