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LEPIDOPTEBA INPICA . 
marginal lunules and the lunule at abdominal angle slender and bluish-grey 
speckled* 
Female. Upperside with the bands as in male, of the same colour and width. 
Foreiving also with a small spot above outer end of subapical band. Underside of the 
same pale yellow ground-colour and defined patches of bright ochreous-yellow as in 
male; the tessellate markings broader; the submarginal row of conical spots on 
hindwing with clear pale centres as in male; the marginal lunules also the same as 
in male. 
Expanse, d l^o, ? 2 x - 0 inches. 
Habitat.— Sikkim. 
Distribution.— Under the name S. Asthala Mr. L. de Uiceville refers to this 
species as having “ been brought in considerable numbers in April, May and 
October, from native Sikkim by native collectors. It is very plentiful at Sivoke in 
March ” (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 145). Specimens of both sexes from Sivoke, 
Sikkim, taken in March and May by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, are in the British Museum. 
Other examples are in our own collection, and also in that of Mr. P. Crowley and 
Mr. H. Grose-Smith. 
SYMBRENTHIA HYSTJDEA. 
Symbrenthia Hysudra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1874, p. 268, pi. 43, fig. 8, $ ( dry-season ). Doherty 
Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 123. de Mceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 244 (1886). 
Wet-season form (Plate 324, fig. 1, la, <$, 1, b, c, $ ). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside fulvescent-black; the bands uniformly fulvous. 
Foreiving with a broad very irregularly sinuously-edged discoidal band, a broad 
subapical oblique sinuous band extending to the costa, and a broad lower-discal 
band, the latter being sinuous on its inner edge, curved on its outer edge, and 
joined by a narrow upper streak to the lower end of subapical band, above which 
latter is a slender apical lunule. Findwing with an irregular-edged broad discal 
band and a rather broad submarginal band, the latter attenuated and curved upward 
to the upper median ; followed by a slender interrupted marginal line to the apex. 
Underside yellowish-ochreous, blotched with darker ochreous. Foreiving with the 
costal and medial tessellate marks broadly black; marginal black line prominent. 
Hindwing with the basal and lower discal tessellate marks broadly black ; the 
submarginal conical spots large and speckled with metallic greyish-blue scales ; 
the marginal lower lunules and lunule at abdominal angle also metallic greyish- 
blue. 
Female. Upperside with the bands paler than in male. Foreiving with the 
discoidal band less irregular edged, the subapical band broader and disconnected 
