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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Dry-season Broocl (Plate 548, fig. 1, la <$, lb, c, d, e $). 
Calophaga Pseuclolalage, Moore, Proc. Zool. Sue. 1879, p. 142, £ y . 
Hiposcritia Pseudolalage, Butler, Arm. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 340. 
Hiposcritia Argyridinci , Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 340, $. 
Male. Smaller than wet form. Upperside. Forewing with the base glossy, the 
black outer band somewhat narrower, and its discal portion more or less disconnected, 
its posterior end always terminating at the lower median ; the discocellular spot 
smaller and always isolated. Hindwing either with a slight black linear tip to the 
upper veins, or entirely white. Underside. Forewing with the black outer band less 
prominent than in wet form, also narrower and its course broken, the apical area being 
pale greyish-ochreous and slightly irrorated with brown scales, the discocellular spot 
isolated. Hindwing pale brownish-ochreous, more or less slightly irrorated with 
brown scales, the submarginal and discal zigzag brownish-scaled fascia slightly 
defined, the discocellular black dot distinct. 
Female. Smaller than wet form. Upperside. Forewing with the base glossy ; 
the black outer band similar, its lower end terminating either at the lower median or 
with some scattered scales inwardly-disposed before the posterior angle; the 
discocellular spot either slightly extending along upper median, or broadly joined to 
the discal portion of the outer band, and inwardly along upper area of the cell. 
Hindwing with the black outer marginal band macular and decreasing obsolescently 
hindward, or the band is more continuous and with a more or less slightly apparent 
blackish-scaled submarginal zigzag fascia. Underside. Forewing with similar black 
markings as on upperside, the apical area being greyish-ochreous and brown-scaled, 
the base of the cell flushed with greyish-ochreous. Hindwing pale greyish-ochreous 
and numerously irrorated with brown scales except in the outer-marginal interspaces 
where these scales are less apparent, the discal and submarginal darker-scaled 
zigzag fascia and black discocellular dot distinct. 
Expanse, S 2 to 2-J, ? to 2f inches. 
Habitat. —Western and Eastern Himalayas ; Assam ; Naga Hills ; Manipur ; 
Burma, Shan States; Tenasserim. 
Distribution. —The late Mr. L. de Niceville, in his MS. Notes on Pierinse, writes, 
“ Lalage has a wide range, extending from the Western Himalayas eastward through 
Kumaon, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhotan, Assam, to Indo-Ohina, and southwards through 
Manipur and Upper Burma to Tenasserim, where it meets Lagela. It is, as far as is 
known, found only in the mountains, where it is usually not uncommon, and has been 
found at an elevation of over 10,000 feet. In the Khasia Hills it occurs on the 
highest peak on the Shillong plateau, 6,400 feet.” Mr. P. W. Mackinnon found it 
“very common in Masuri, Western Himalayas, and on the adjoining Hills, in April 
