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LEPIDOPTERA IN DIG A. 
in female of wet-season form. Forewing with the discoidal band slightly confluent 
with lower end of subapical band ; the apical streak longer and narrow ; the lower 
band very broad, its upper irregular end sometimes almost touching the subapical 
band. Hindwing with the discal band very broad, its central area pale yellow ; 
tessellate marks of underside slightly visible; outer band broad, its upper end 
extending inward and sometimes joined to the discal band; marginal line extending 
to apex. Underside paler throughout than in luet-secison form. 
Expanse, 8 1^ to 2^ inches. 
Habitat. —W. and E. Himalayas; Assam; Khasia and Naga Hills; Burma; 
Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula. 
Distribution. —Mr. W. Doherty records it as being “ common in the Kali 
Valley, 2000 to 4000 feet elevation in Eastern Kumaon ” (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 122). 
Mr. L. de Niceville says it is “ not nearly so common as Hippodus [Lucina]. It 
has a habit of flying backwards and forwards in a narrow gorge between rocks in 
one of the mountain streams so common in the Himalayas, and occasionally settling 
on the overhanging foliage 55 (Indian Agriculturist, 1880). We possess the wet and 
dry-season forms from Nepal, Sikkim, and the Khasia Hills. Col. C. Swinhoe has 
both forms from the Khasias, and males of the wet form from Kaschmir. Mr. L. de 
Niceville records it also from “ Bhotan, Assam, Naga Hills, Cachar, Karen Hills, 
Burma, and Malay Peninsula” (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 857). “It is the 
commonest species of the genus in Sikkim, and is found up to 4000 feet elevation 
almost throughout the year” (id. Sikk. Graz. 1894, 145). Mr. H. Grose-Smith has 
it from the Ruby Mines, Burma. Specimens from the Thoungyeen Valley, Upper 
Tenasserim, taken in November and February, by Capt. C, T. Bingham, are in the 
British Museum. 
SYMBRENTHIA BRABIRA. 
Wei season form (Plate 323, fig. 1, la, J 1 , 1, b, e, $ ). 
Symbrenthia Asthala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1874, p. 269, pi. 43, fig. 9, 8* Doherty, Journ. 
Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 122. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 244, pi. 23, fig. 106, 
8 (1886). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside rich fulvescent-black; the bands of the same rich 
dark fulvous, as in male of S. Gotanda , and of the same shape but not so broad as in the 
dry-season form of the latter species. Underside nearly uniformly bright ochreous- 
yellow; tessellated marks smaller, narrower, and more widely apart than in 
wet-season form of S. Hysudra; the submarginal conical spots on the hindwing 
small, imperfectly formed and slightly speckled with metallic-green scales ; marginal 
lunules continuous and metallic-green speckled. 
