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red, the outer border with a broad ochreous marginal band, which is more or less 
densely marked with black-speckled transverse strigse, and is inwardly bordered by 
a parallel black sinuous-edged band, which latter is broadest on the hindwing, and 
on both wings bearing a series of rich shining blue spots between the veins, these 
spots being dentate on forewing, and more of an oval shape on hindwing, becoming 
obsolescent towards the anal angle. Forewing also with the costal border black, 
striated with ochreous, and having two paler ochreous short broad bars before the 
apex. Underside. Both wings rich dark purpurescent greyish-black, densely 
covered with transverse black strigee ; marginal ochreous band as above, but paler 
and more densely striated, its inner bordering band formed of narrow black dentate 
marks with bluish-grey speckled centres; a very small ochreous dentate spot at 
lower end of each cell. Forewing also with less defined pale ochreous costal strigse, 
and the two narrower bars before the apex. Findwing also crossed by a slender 
black irregular discal line. Body above dark purpurescent-red; palpi blackish, the 
sides ochreous ; forelegs, middle and hind femora blackish, middle and hind tibiae 
and tarsi ochreous ; antennae black, tip and beneath reddish-ochreous. 
Expanse, d 3, $ 3^ inches. 
Habitat.— Europe; C. Asia ; E. Himalayas; W. China; Amurland ; Japan. 
Distribution. —“ Within our limits, this species has been obtained by Mr. H. J. 
Elwes and Mr. Otto Moller, in native Sikkim and across the passes in Chumbi. It 
has also been recorded from Bhotan ” (de Niceville, lx. 233). <c I have no knowledge 
of the occurrence of this in Sikkim proper, although I received a considerable 
number from native collectors, which were taken in Ohumbi or Bhotan, in July and 
August. I am not aware that it has been taken in any other part of the Himalayas ” 
(Elwes, Ti\ Ent. Soc. 1888, 362). 
Genus EUGONIA. 
Eugonia, Hiibner, Yerz. bek. Schmett. p. 36 (1816). Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 12 (1850) 
Scudcler, Butt. E. U. S. i. p. 372 (1889). 
Nymphalis, Scudder, Syst. Bev. Amer. Butt. p. 10 (1872). 
Vanessa, Staudinger et Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 124 (1887). Kirby, Allen’s Nat. Hist. Butt. i. 
p. 88 (1894). 
Imago. —Wings broad. Male. Forewing subtriangular; costa much arched 
from the base; exterior margin slightly oblique, prominently scalloped and broadly 
angled below* the apex and at end of lower median veinlet; posterior margin nearly 
straight; costal vein extending to half the margin; first subcostal branch emitted at 
about one-fourth before end of the cell, second close to the end ; upper and middle 
discocellular of nearly equal length, middle bent outward near its base, lower 
