( -'-4 ) 



<?. Anterior tibiae and stripes of sterna underneath femora paler than in the 

 following subspecies, underside of abdomen also paler brown. 



Wi/iffx a/iflve-. forewing, of postdiscal series of spots the uppermost, SC* — SC, 

 rather often marked (Ji/jie), spot M- — (SM') rather heavy, rounded or somewhat 

 triangular, the following one absent or minute. The pale huffish Innules near the 

 inner edge of the disco-submarginal band of the hiudwing all well marked, inclusive 

 of Innule C — SG-, the band itself rather thinner than in F.. ilolon cfntralia : admar- 

 ginal, cream colonred, spots (interspaces) pale, purer cream colour than in K. dolon 

 centralis, being less shaded with blue, especially in individuals from Kulu. 



Underside : submedian and median black bars thinner than in E. dolon centra lis, 

 especially those of the hindwing. 



On the whole somewhat inferior in size to North Indian examples of PL dolon. 



Hub. N.W.India: Malwa Tal (= " Malwah ") ; Naini Tal, Knmaon, 16 6 

 (Chas. Maries) ; Kulu, 166- 



According to Mackinnon {I.e.) this species is very rare in N.W. India : he 

 found it at 8000 feet elevation in April and May at Nag Tiba in Tehri Garwhal. 

 Doherty, I.e., records E. eudamipjma as having been seen by himself at Knmaon ; 

 it was doubtless E. dolon, as E. eudamippus is not known to occur so far west. 



b. E. dolon centralis Rothsch., snbsp. nov. (Nov. Zool. V. t. IX. f. 1, 6, Sikkim *). 



Nymphalis dolon, Horsfield & Moore (non Westwood, 1848), Cat. Lep. Im. Mits. E. I. C, I. p. 206. 



n. 421 (1857) (Darjiling) ; Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 271. n. 46 (1871) (Sikkim). 

 Charaxes {Baridra) dolon, Butler, Ann. Mag. X. H. (5). XVI. p. 306. n. 52 (1885). 

 Chara.tes dolon, Staudinger, Exot. Tagf., p. 173 (1886) (Sikkim) ; Nici^v., Butt, of Ind. II. p. 272. 



n.56.i. t. 22. f. 100. 6 (If^^'') (pt- 1 Sikkim ; near A.ssam) ; Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 367. 



n. 207 (1888) (^Sikkim, rare, 3 to 4000 feet, April and May) ; Butl., Joiirn. Linn. Soc. Lond. 



XXV. p. 379. n. 82 (1896) (pt. ; Sikkim ; Nepal). 

 Charaxes (Eulepis) dolon, Xic^ville, in Risley, aazettnr of Sikhim p. 147. n. 229 (1894) (Sikkim, 



low elevations, April and May ; desc. of ? from Bhutan, May 2nd). 

 Murwarda (!) dolon, Moore, Lep. Ind. II. p. 263. t. 189. £. 1. la. 6 (1896) (pt. ; Eastern Himalayas, 



Assam, Cachar, Sylhet, Upp. Teuasserim, Tavoy (December), Tboungyeen Valley (February) ; 



" Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo " ex en:) 



6 ? . Abdomen beneath almost pure black. Postdiscal spot (SM') — SM- of 

 forewing above larger than in the preceding form, mostly angle-shaped, seldom both 

 submedian spots very small. Hindwing : disco-submarginal black band some- 

 what hea\'ier than in E. dolon dolon, especially posteriorly, the pale huffish lunulos 

 near its proximal edge seldom conspicuous, the upper three or four mostly, the 

 upper one always, absent or obsolete; admarginal, cream-coloured, spots much 

 overshaded with bluish scales, hence appearing darker than in dolon dolon ; 

 upper tail somewhat longer. On the underside the submedian and median black 

 bars of both wings are heavier than in the western race. 



JIab. Nepal to Tenasserim, 27 6 6 , I ? : Nepal (in Brit. Mus.) ; Sikkim (ti/pe, 

 26 iv. 88, 0. Moller) ; t'achar (ace. to Moore) ; Sylhet (ace. to Moore) ; Khasia 

 Hills (May 1889, Hamilton) ; Tavoy, Thoungyee.n Valley and Upp. Tenasserim 

 (ace. to Moore). 



* Fig. 2 repre.sents a specimen from the Shan States. 



