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LEPIDOPTERA INEICA. 
Wet-season brood (Plate 299, fig. 1, la, fi, $ $). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dark purpurescent-black ; markings deep yellowish- 
oclireous; cilia slightly alternated with greyish-white. Forewing with an elongated 
discoidal streak extending along lower half of the cell and ending in a more or 
less obtuse point half-way along the upper median veinlet, its upper edge indented 
at end of cell; a transverse curved discal almost complete macular band, composed 
of outwardly-oblique subapical, discal, and lower spots, the subapical being joined to 
the discal by a slender more or less complete streak, and the discal joined to the 
lower spot; followed by a submarginal slender pale greyish-brown or ochreous- 
brown line. Rindwing crossed by a moderately broad inner-discal band and a 
narrow outer band, between which is a slightly-defined pale greyish-brown fascia, 
and beyond by a similar submarginal line; on the costa is a broad basal glossy 
brownish-grey patch. Underside deep purplish-red; markings, as above, pinkish- 
white, the cell-streak and discal band of forewing having their edges inwardly 
suffused with ochreous. Forewing also with the submarginal line and an inner 
sinuous line purplish-grey. Rindwing also with a short basal fascia, a less-defined 
subbasal fascia radiating along base of the veins, a medial discal sinuous band, 
inner edges of the outer-discal band, and the submarginal line, all being purplish- 
grey. 
Female. Upperside as in male, with the markings somewhat broader and 
paler. Underside as in the male. Body and palpi above black; palpi and thorax 
beneath, and forelegs greyish ; abdomen beneath and hind-legs pale greyish- 
ochreous; antennae black. 
Expanse, c? 2 to 2^, ? 2M inches. 
Dry-season brood (Plate 299, fig. 1, e, d, e, J 1 ? ). 
Male and female. Upperside with the discoidal streak and discal bands 
somewhat broader than in wet-season form; the submarginal line more distinctly 
ochreous. 
Expanse, S 2^ 0 , ? 2 X A 0 inches. 
Habitat. —Sikkim ; Bhotan; Assam ; Khasia and Naga Hills. 
Distribution. —“ This is a fairly common species in Sikkim throughout the 
summer, and I have taken numerous males in October, sucking up the moisture 
from damp sand in the beds of streams. Mr. J. L. Sherwill took a male at 
Hulunguri in the Jorehat District, Assam, in March ”(de Niceville, l.c. 95). “ Not 
uncommon in Sikkim by the river sides at from 1000 to 3000 feet elevation, from 
April to October” (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 343). Colonel C. Swinhoe 
