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LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 
Forewing with the outer portion covered with many of these spots of various sizes, the 
lower discal portions with a few; cell with three elongated spots crossing it, a post-discal 
irregular band of detached spots, a sub-terminal lunular line. Hindwing with similar 
spots and minute dark brown specks; three basal detached spots in a transverse row, a 
medial macular band that crosses the cell, a large spot at apex of cell, with a similar 
spot above touching the costa, and another below it at base of interspace 3, a broad 
curved macular discal brown band, its upper spot well detached, the others confluent. 
Female. Differs from the male in having a discal oblique band of three spots. 
L nderside with the markings more clearly defined. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ 2 T 2 ¥ inches. 
Habitat.— The Himalayas from Kumaon to Bhutan at low elevations, Assam 
and the Chittagong hill tracts (Bingham). 
Distribution.— Elwes records it from the Naga Hills, and Manders from the 
Shan States. We have received many examples of both sexes from the Khasia 
Hills. 
ALLOTINUS SUBVIOLESCENS. 
Plate 616, figs. 1, la, $ , lb, 
Allotinus subviulescens, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 280, pi. 35, figs. 27, 28 (1865). Bingham, 
Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 300 (1907). 
Allotinus alkamah, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 452, pi. 44, fig. 3, $ (1886). de Niceville, Butt, of 
India, iii. p. 30 (1890). 
Imago.— Male. Forewing. Upperside brownish-black, a dull violaceous patch 
consisting of two streaks divided by the vein, filling up the internomedian interspace 
from near the base, to the broad blackish outer border, a shorter streak fills up the 
interspace above in a similar manner. Hindwing blackish-brown, a broad medial dull 
violaceous streak from the base to the disc. Underside pale brownish-grey with a 
slight ochrcous tint, with many transverse darker lines composed of specks, spots, and 
stride, coalescing in parts. 
Female. Upperside similar to the male, but the violaceous portion much larger, 
occupying most of the interior portion of the wing, leaving a broad costal and outer 
band. Underside like the male, but the markings more ochreous and prominent. 
Antennae, head and body brown above, paler beneath, the palpi nearly white beneath. 
Expanse of wings, $ f lqh inches. 
Habitat.— Burma, Malay Archipelago. 
Distribution. —The type came from Java ; Distant’s type from Malayana; it is in 
the B. M. from Toungoo, Bangoon, Sumatra, Kina Balu, and Palawan. The male 
figure is from Felders type-specimen from Tring Museum. 
