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LEPIDOPTERA INDICIA. 
at their inner end. Hindwing with a subbasal broad crimson band extending from 
the costal vein to the snbmedian across basal half of the cell and traversed by black 
veins, and its outer edge slightly bordered with grey scales ; beyond is an outer- 
discal series of longitudinal posteriorly-lengthening grey-scaled streaks extending 
from the costal apex to the lower median—of which the fourth streak enters the 
apex of the cell, followed by a longer ochreous-yellow submedian interspace, and 
then a greyish-white abdominal area. Underside. Forewing duller black, with the 
grey markings more defined. Hindwing deeper black, with a small ochreous-yellow 
basal spot; the crimson subbasal band extending to the abdominal margin ; the 
outer streaks more defined, the upper paler grey, the lower paler yellow. Body 
above .greyish-black ; thorax clothed with grey hairs; abdomen beneath greyish- 
white ; thorax beneath, palpi, and legs black, grey streaked; antennse black, 
annulated beneath with grey.* 
Female. Upperside. Forewing similar to the male ; the cell-streaks medially 
restricted, the two lower discal streaks shorter. Hindiving similar to the male, 
except that the crimson band is not outwardly grey scaled, and the outer streaks 
from the lower subcostal to submedian are ochreous-yellow. Underside similar to 
the male. 
Expanse, 3 ? 3J to 4 inches. 
Habitat. —Nepal; Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Assam ; Khasias : Burma ; Tenasserim ; 
Malay Peninsula; Tonkin. 
Distribution. —We possess specimens of both sexes from Nepal, taken by the 
late Gen. G. Ramsay; from Sikkim, taken in April and May; Dhunsari, Assam. 
Mr. L. de Niceville records it as “ common in Sikkim, at low elevations, from April 
to December 53 (Sikk. Gaz. 1894, 165). Mr. Ernest Swinhoe has received it from 
the Khasia Hills. Capt. E. Y. Watson obtained 6i a single specimen at Tilin, in 
December, during the Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90 ” (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 
1891, 51) ; he also records “ a specimen taken in the N. Chin Hills, at 3,500 feet 
elevation, in the rainy season 33 (id. l.c. 1897, 668). Col. C. H. E. Adamson obtained 
it at “ Bhamo, in November, and in the Attaran Valley, Upper Tenasserim, in 
March” (List Burm. Butt. 1897, 40). Signor L. Fea took it at Mateleo, Karen 
Hills, in August and September, and at Bhamo in September. In the British 
Museum Collection are specimens from Sikkim, taken by Dr. Pilcher; Bhotan, taken 
by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, and from E. Pegu, taken by Mr. W. Doherty. 
* A variety of the male, from the Khasia Hills, in Mr. W. Rothschild’s Collection, has the markings of 
both wings on the upperside more sharply defined, the hindwing having the broad subbasal hand entirely 
white, instead of crimson, the anal interspaces from the lower median being also white, with the faintest 
possible tinge of very pale yellow. On the underside of the hindwing the subbasal band and anal area is 
also white. 
