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LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 
Female, only differs from the male in having the orange patch on the forewing 
above, and the black anal spots on the hindwing below, larger. 
Expanse of wings, I $ lB to 1 T \ inches. 
Habitat. —Western Himalayas, Kashmir. 
Distribution. —Becorded by Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussuri, by Leslie 
and Evans from Chitral, by Doherty from Kumaon, 4,600 feet elevation; w T e have 
both sexes from Kulu and Kashmir ; it is in the B. M. also from Thundiani, Kangra,- 
Dana, Goorais Valley, Narkundah and Dharmsala. 
BTSUDRA HADES. 
Plate 709, figs. 2, $, 2a, 2b, $. 
Ilysudra (!) hades , de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 318, pi. P, fig. 46, $; id. Journ. 
As. Soc. Bengal, 1897, p. 560, pi. 4, fig. 29, . 
Imago. —Male. Upperside, both wings shining fuscous. Forewing w 7 ith a large 
dull coppery-red area occupying the middle of the wing crossed by the black veins and 
bearing a black streak outwardly on the sub-median fold ; this red area just enters the 
outer end of the cliscoidal cell and occupies the basal portion of the lower discoidal, 
median, and sub-median interspaces. Hindwing streaked between the veins more or 
less by the same dull coppery-red. Underside, both wings pale fawn-colour, the dis¬ 
cocell ular nervules marked by a rather broad and prominent paler line. Forewing 
with a macular outwardly curved discal fuscous band, commencing at the costa, ending 
close to the sub-median nervure ; an obsolete marginal dark fascia. Hind wing with a 
discal fuscous band as on the forewing, but more prominent, outwardly defined with 
wdiite, posteriorly somewhat ferruginous, and recurved to the abdominal margin in a 
W -shaped figure; a marginal series of four dark lunules from the first sub-costal to the 
second median nervule, a marginal oval black spot faintly crowned with orange in the 
first median interspace, a clump of black and wdiite scales in the sub-median interspace ; 
the anal lobe black, faintly crowned with orange, with a narrow orange fascia running 
along the abdominal margin from above the anal lobe to the termination of the discal 
band; tail black, tipped with white. Antennae with the shaft black, annulated 
with white ; the club black, the tip ferruginous ; body black above and fawn-coloured 
below. I place this species in the genus Ilysudra with considerable doubt, but do so 
because the coloration of the upperside is very similar to that of II. selira , Moore, from 
the Western Himalayas, and the markings of the underside are almost identical. The 
tail, however, is twice as long as in H. selira; as far as I can see, however, by the 
application of benzine to my unique specimen, it does not possess the characteristic 
male “ scale mark ” of the genus Ilysudra , but instead has that portion of the sub¬ 
costal nervure between the point where the first sub-costal nervule arises and the apex 
