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LEPID OPTERA INDICA. 
single specimen of the dry-season form (Watsoni) at the foot of the Chin Hills, in 
March ” (lx. 669). Mr, 0. Limborg records taking Watsoni on the road from 
(t Moulmein to Meetan, and at Houngduran, Upper Tenasserim ” (P. Z. S. 1878, 889). 
Dr. N. Manders writes, “ I have specimens of Thestylis from Fort Stedman and 
Bernardmyo, Shan States. The females are mimics of Delias Belladonna. I have 
not taken Watsoni in the Shan States, and but rarely in Karenee ” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 
1890, 588). We possess both sexes of Thestylis from Sikkim, males from the Khasias ; 
Manipur ; Upper Tenasserim taken by Col. C. T. Bingham in April ; Upper Mekong, 
Shan States, taken by Mr. J. Roberts, C.E. ; and of Watsoni, males from Sikkim, 
Silhet, Moulmein, and Upper Mekong. 
Of our illustrations on Plate 538, fig. 1, la, and lb, c, are from a wet-season 
male and female from Sikkim ; fig. Id, e, from a Khasia female. On Plate 539, fig. 1, 
la, are from a wet-smson female from Sadarghat, Assam; fig. 2, 2a, are from a dry- 
season male, from the Khasias, and fig, 2b, c, the female, the latter taken from 
Hewitson’s type specimen of Watsoni. 
PBIONERIS SIT A. (Plate 536, fig. 2, <?, 2a, b, ? , 2c, pupa). 
Fieris Sita, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 161, pi. 25, fig. 12, $ (1865). 
Prioneris Sita, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1867, p. 385. Butler, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 28. Moore, 
Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 141, pi. 54, fig. 2, $ (1881) ; id. l.c. iii. p. 532, larva (1887). de Niceville, 
Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1899, pp. 173, 210. Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 
Soc. 1896, p. 570. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1900, p. 250. Fruhstorfer, Berl. Ent. 
Zeit. 1899, p. 110. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside greyish-white. Borewing with the costa and all the 
veins black-lined, the black on the outer veins expanding at their end and forming a 
very narrow marginal border, the submarginal narrow band of the underside very 
slightly indicated by a few minute black scales. Hindwiwg with the outer veins black 
only at their end, where it more or less expands and forms a slender black marginal 
border; a submarginal very slightly defined slender sparsely black-scaled band, the 
enclosed marginal interspaces being flushed with pale pink and indicating the spots 
of the underside. Underside. Both wings with all the veins black-lined, and the 
submarginal black narrow band distinct. Forewing with slightly apparent slender 
black longitudinal cell-streaks, and the apical interspaces pale yellow. Hindwing 
with the basal area to the submarginal band yellow, the outer marginal interspaces 
being scarlet, each bordered with white. 
Female. Upperside with all the veins broader black-lined and the submarginal 
lunular band more distinctly formed; cell areas with slender slightly defined black 
linear streaks. Underside similar to the male. 
Expanse, d ¥ 3J to 3-J inches, 
