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LEPID OP TEE A INDICA. 
the wing outside this band is dark blackish-brown, nearly black, but all the inner 
portion and the hindwing are pale pinkish-brown, a little darker brown occasionally ; on 
the underside there is a brown shaded streak from the base inwards on the forewing, 
and a similar streak on the hindwings extending inwards from the middle of the 
abdominal margin. 
Female, similar to the male. 
Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen above and below brown. 
Expanse of wings, $ $, 1 T % inches. 
Habitat. —Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Hong Kong, Ceylon, extending to Java. 
Distribution. —Watson records it from the Chin Hills and Chin Lushai, Elwes 
from North Assam and the Karen and Naga Hills, Manders from the Shan States ; 
it is in the B. M. from Hong Kong, Ceylon and Java, and in our collection from the 
Khasia Hills. 
GERYDUS LONGEANA. 
Plate 613, figs. 2, <£, 2a, $, 2b, $, 2c, J . 
Gerydus longeana , de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 141, pi. Z, figs. 15, 16. 
Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 293 (1907). 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, 2a, $, 2b, £, 2c $). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside pale blackish-brown with a slight ochreous tint. 
Forewing with the space beyond the white discal band black, the band consisting of an 
oblique rather broad streak across the end of the cell, and two somewhat elongate 
spots below it, nearer the margin. Hindwing unmarked. Underside of a uniform 
very pale brownish-grey, tinged with ochreous, markings very obscure, much as in 
boisduvali ; the white discal band of the forewing broader throughout and much 
enlarged hindwards. 
Female, like the male, the discal band very much broader, consisting of four 
elongated white streaks of uniform size; on the underside the markings are better 
defined. 
Expanse of wings, J inches. 
Intermediate Form. 
Male, with the space on forewing beyond the white band black, the band purer 
white, very broad, evenly curved, the spots closer together and narrowing hindwards, 
the inner portion of the wing and the entire hind wing pale whitish-grey with a 
pinkish-ochreous tinge, a short brown streak, immediately above the upper half of the 
cell, and another in the interspace above vein 2, extending from its origin to the 
white band; the hind wing with the costa broadly blackish-brown, unmarked. Under- 
