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with the point inward, the two lower with the point outward, the lowest sometimes 
ill-defined; a submarginal row of large pale-blue spots, the lower being broadly 
quadrate or pyriform, the upper more rounded, and a marginal row of very small 
spots. Two silky long sexual marks between the lower median and submedian vein. 
Hindwing dark rufescent-brown, the costal border broadly glossy cinereous-white; 
with generally three, sometimes only two, very small prominent white upper 
submarginal spots. Underside paler rufescent-brown. Forewing with the costal, 
cell, discal, and marginal rows of spots as in upperside, all prominent violet-white, 
the upper discals being smaller and slender, the lower discal larger and oval, the 
submarginals reduced nearly to the size of the marginals ; sexual marks brown, 
posterior border brownish-cinereous. Hindwing with a small violet-white cell spot, 
six small discal spots, three or four small upper submarginal spots, and a nearly 
complete marginal row of very small white spots. Some white spots at base of the 
wing. Body dark brown; head, palpi, thorax above and beneath black, spotted 
with white ; legs black, fore femora white beneath ; abdomen beneath with greyish 
segmental bands. Female. Upperside. Foreiving with the posterior margin straight; 
the pale blue markings as in male, but generally larger, the discal row sometimes 
lobular and with a lower streak above the submedian. Hindwing as in the male ; in 
some specimens two small bluish-white discal spots are present. Underside marked 
as in the male. Forewing with two elongated violaceous-white streaks above the 
submedian vein ; posterior margin cinereous. 
Expanse, $ 3^ to 4J, ? 3f to 4J inches. 
Habitat. —N. E. India, Sikkim. 
Distribution. —This is probably the northern form of the preceding. Mr. L. 
de Niceville (J. A. S. Bengal, 1881, 55), obtained it in Sikkim in October, it being 
by no means a common butterfly. Mr. H. J. Elwes (T rans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 302) 
says it is “ found not uncommonly in Sikkim up to about 3000 feet elevation from 
April to October.” 
All the specimens of both S . Hopei and 8. Unotata that we have examined are 
from the localities cited. It is recorded by Major C. H. E. Adamson, in his Notes 
on the Danainm of Burma (1889), p. 14, that, what he considers to be S. Hopei “is 
common in the North of Burma, I have caught it close to Akyab town, on the 
coast, in March, and it flies commonly in April in the Arrakan Hill tracts as high as 
2000 feet, and probably higher. In the hills about Bhamo it is also found rarely, 
and I have one caught in Rangoon in March. The caudal appendages of the male 
are of a light brown colour.” 
STXCTOPLCEA PYGMJEA (Plate 52, fig. 3, 3a, $ ? ). 
Stictoploea pygmcea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 320. 
Allied to 8. microsticta . Smaller in size : forewing in both sexes with smaller 
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