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LEPIDOPTERA INDIO A. 
scaled cell area, discal elongate streaks, and subapical small linear spots. Hmdwing 
sullied pale chrome-yellow; the base sparsely irrorated with minute grey-black 
scales ; a greyish-black marginal band enclosing ill-defined greyish-white marks. 
Underside similar to the male, except that the black vein-borders of the fore wing are 
broader. Body above greyish-black, beneath greyish-white. 
Expanse, 2\ to 2§ inches. 
Habitat. —Nepal; Sikkim; Assam; Khasia Hills ; Burma., 
Distribution. —We possess specimens of the male from Nepal, taken by the late 
Genl. G. Ramsay. Mr. H. J. Elwes records it as “ not uncommon in Sikkim in the 
lower valleys, from March to December ” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 408). Col. C. Swinhoe 
says it is “ very common in the Khasia Hills” (l.c. 1893, 311). In Burma, Capt. 
E. Y. Watson took “one male in the N. Chin Hills, at 7,000 feet altitude in May, 
and a female at the foot of the Hills in April” (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1897, 668). 
Capt. Watson also took a “ single pair at Tilin in November and March, during the 
Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90 ” (l.c. 1891, 51) ; he also found it “ common at 
Beeling, Upper Tenasserim, from May to September, and at Paungadaw, Upper 
Burmah, in October and November ” (l.c. 1888, 25). Col. C. H. E. Adamson “ caught 
only three specimens of this butterfly, in April, October, and December respectively, 
two in Arakan, and one in Upper Chindwin ” (List Burm. Butt. 1897, 41). Dr. L. 
Eea obtained it at Moolayet in March, and in the Karen Hills. Dr. N. Manders found 
it “ widely distributed in the Shan States at low elevations, being abundant in the 
Mone Valley ” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 533). We possess males from the Upper 
Mekong, Shan States, taken by Mr. R. Roberts, C.E. 
PICCARDA AGORANIS (Plate 535, fig. 2, 2a, <$). 
Delias Agoranis, Grose-Smith, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 266 ; id. Ehop. Exot. ii. Del. pi. 1, fig. 7, 8, $ 
(1893). Adamson, List Burm. Butt. 1897, p. 40. Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 156. 
Delias Agostina subsp. infumata, Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1902, p. 174. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside white. Forewing with the costal border broadly 
greyish-black scaled, these scales also extending along upper edge and end of the cell, 
and from thence outward to the marginal blacker band, which latter is traversed by 
a series of small narrow whitish spots. Hindwing with a marginal row of ill-defined 
black-scaled triangular spots, the three lower of which are most distinct. Underside. 
Forewing with black-bordered veins. The upper discal white intervening-streaks 
short and widely separated from the white cell area. Findwing pale lemon-yellow ; 
the black marginal band broader and enclosing six broad white spots. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing fuliginous-black ; cell area and elongated streak 
between the veins sullied greyish-white. Hindwing white with fuliginous-black 
