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LEPID OPT ERA INDIO A. 
Bengal, 1886, p. 136. Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 119. de Nieeville, Journ. Bombay N. IT. 
Sue. 1898, p. 589. Dixey, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1905, p. 38. 
Gonepteryx Wallichii , Lang. Ent. Mo. Mag, 1864, p. 101. 
Both sexes with the middle of the costa of forewing slightly constricted or 
depressed, and the apex more prolonged and acutely pointed ; the hindwing more 
deeply and broadly dentated than in Nejpalensis . Both sexes also with the costal and 
outer area of both wings more or less wrinkled with transverse impressed strigai 
between the veins; and the subcostal median and submedian vein of the hmdiuing 
thickened, and clothed beneath with raised scales. 
Male. Upperside. Forewing sulphur-yellow; a few black scales at the base; 
extreme costa anteriorly, and outer margin anteriorly with its cilia, more or less very 
slenderly edged with ferruginous-black scales, the vein tips being indicated by a 
more distinct pointed dot; the discocellular ferruginous-red spot very small. 
Hindwing pale olivescent yellowish-white; a few black scales at the base; 
the tip of lower veins, and cilia, ferruginous-black ; discocellular ferruginous-red 
spot small, somewhat triangular. Underside pale olivescent yellowisli-white ; 
discocellular spot purplish-black; vein tips as above. Forewing with a sub- 
apical excurved series of four or five minute black-scaled very slender short streaks, 
one in each interspace. FLindiving also with a lower discal similar series of minute 
black dots. 
Female. Upperside, Both wings pale olivescent yellowish-white, impressed 
with strigas as in the male; discocellular spot paler ; vein tips less distinct. 
Underside paler; vein tips distinct; discocellular spot much paler. Forewing with 
subapical series of minute streaks, and hindwing with lower discal dots as in male. 
Body white ; abdomen above blackish; antennse greyish-black above, whitish beneath. 
Expanse, S 2 to 2|~, $ 2 inches. 
Habitat. —N. W. Himalayas. 
Distribution. —Oapt. A. M. Lang writes (Epist. July, 1865), tc This is an 
inhabitant of rich forests 6,000 to 8,000 feet elevation, in Upper Kunawur. I have 
seen it only in the thick dark forests about Kotgurk and Narkunda. I have also 
taken it in Narkunda and Phagoo from April to June. It is a wonderful insect for 
remaining always in a normally battered faded condition. I have seen a good many 
this year (1865) and last year, but not one specimen could I keep, so utterly worn 
and poor were they all.” Specimens from Narkunda, taken in October, and Jalouri 
Pass in May, are in Mr, J. H. Leech’s Collection. Mr. P. W. Mackinnon records it 
as u rare ; occurring in Masuri, and in the interior from April to August ” (J. Bombay 
N. H. S. 1898, 589). Mr. W. Doherty obtained it at “Naim Tal, Lohugkat, in 
Kumaon, at 6.000 to 8,000 feet elevation ” (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 136). We verified 
a specimen in Mr. W. S. Atkinson’s Collection, labelled cc Nowboog, Kaschrnir, 
