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some specimens the marginal end of the outer veins is also very slightly and 
obscurely speckled with minute black scales. Underside white. Forewing with, all 
the veins broadly black bordered, the apical white streaks being more defined ; also 
with more or less distinctly defined black longitudinal cell-streaks. Hindwing with 
all the veins narrowly black bordered ; the basal area to, or more or less beyond, the 
cell, either pale or dark yellow, with a submarginal series of bright scarlet spots 
increasing in size from the apex, followed by a bordering outer marginal black 
uneven band. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing greyish-black, with either moderately well- 
defined white or greyish-white cell-streaks and narrow discal and apical streaks, 
or all these streaks are obscurely defined and narrow, and are more or less nearly 
obliterated by black scaling. Hindwing either white, with all the veins broadly 
greyish-black bordered and widening outwardly and dilated on the margin, with pale 
pink indications of the submarginal scarlet spots of the underside, or, dull-white, 
with the veins outwardly more broadly but less prominently blackish bordered, their 
ends more broadly diffused and with dusky-reddish indications of the spots of the 
underside. Underside similar to the male, except that on the forewing the black 
bordering to the veins is broader, and the upper apical streaks are sometimes yellow- 
tinted, and on the hindwing the veins sometimes are broader black, the scarlet spots 
broader, and the yellow filling up the entire discal area, and, more rarely, as in 
Devaca, the costal interspace and the cell area is dark scarlet. 
Expanse, d ? 3 to 3J- inches. 
Habitat. —Kumaon ; Nepal; Sikkim; Khasia Hills: Lower Bengal; Burma; 
Upper Tenasserim; Siam; Saigon; Tonkin. 
Distribution. —A male from Bhaniket, Kumaon, Western Himalayas, taken in 
May, is in Mr. W. Rothschild’s Collection. We possess both sexes from Nepal, 
taken by the late Gfenl. Gf. Ramsay. Mr. H. J. Elwes records it as “not uncommon 
in Sikkim, at low elevations, and up to 3,000 feet, from March to December ” (Tr. 
Ent. Soc. 1888, 408). Mr. L. de Niceville says “ it is a rare species in Sikkim, and 
occurs only in the low valleys and outer slopes of the hills ” (Sikk. Gfaz. 1891, 166). 
Col. 0. Swinkoe records it from the Khasia Hills (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1893, 311). Mr. 
de Niceville, “ a single male taken in Calcutta in February ” (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1885, 
51). Capt. E. Y. Watson obtained it at “ Tilin, in March, during the Chin-Lushai 
Expedition of 1889-90” (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, 51), and also at Rangoon (id. 
l.c. 1888, p. 25). Capt. Watson also found it “common in the Upper Ohindwin 
District, Burma, in May; also obtained up to 6,500 feet in the Hills” (l.c. 1897, 
668). Mr. O. Limborg took it “ above Ahsown ; Moulmein to Meetan, and at 
Moolai, 3,000 to 6,000 feet elevation ” (P. Z. S. 1878, 839). Col. C. H. E. Adamson 
remarks that it is “ common in all Burma” (List, 1897, 41). Dr. L. Fea obtained 
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