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luniform discal and postdiscal bars, wliich are concave distally, and the j'ellowish 

 tawuy interspace olive between this series of donble-bars and the white discal area, 

 the interspaces between discal and postdiscal bars also tawny olive, discal bars, 

 besides, bordered distully with very thin bluish white lines ; the band is narrower 

 than on iipperside owing to the black siibmargiual bars not being included into it, 

 these bars being reduced to small black dots placed in white patches ; border of wing 

 tawny olive, li to 2 mm. broad, blackish at edge, with pale blue scales at end of 

 veins in our specimens, border at anal angle more yellow, tails blackish with two 

 thin, indistinct, bluish white lines close to veins. 



?. Like (J, larger, tails longer and less pointed; the disco-submarginal band 

 of the nppersidc and the disco-postdiscal band of the underside of the hiudwing 

 somewhat narrower, the black outer area of the forewing above also a little more 

 restricted. 



Length of forewing : c?, 39 to 54 mm. 



„ „ $ , .55 mm. (onr specimen). 



Tergite of tenth abdominal segment of cJ sinuate at apex, the edge of the plate 

 being bent downwards in middle ; the depth of the sinus variable, greatest in 

 the specimens from the Shan States. 



Hab. Malwa, Kumaon, Kalu, Nepal, Sikkim, Khasia Hills, Sylhet, Cachar, 

 Shan States, Tenasserim. 



In North India it occurs during April and May, while in Tenasserim it has been 

 found in December and February. The species has one brood only, judging from 

 the short time it is found on the wing. The larva and chrysalis are unknown. 



The species is described by Westwood from a specimen in the collection of 

 Captain Boyes, the specimen being said to be from " Malwah in the East Indies." 

 In Doubleday, Westwood & Hewitson, Gen. Diiini. Lep. II. p. 309 n. 34 (18.50), 

 the species is recorded as being represented in the British Museum from " Malwah, 

 East India." Dr. Butler, in his " Account of the Butterflies of the Genus Charaxes 

 in the Collection of the British Museum " {.Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. XXV. p. 379. 

 n. 82 1896), enumerates under II. a tj from " N. India (Capt. Boyes)," but this 

 example is not the type, as it does not agree with Westwood's tigare. 



We have lately received a number of specimens from Naini Tal, Kumaon, 

 collected by Mr. Charles Maries. The upper postdiscal spot of the forewing above, 

 which is seldom vestigial in the examjiles from other localities, is in one of those 

 Naini Tal individuals as well marked as in Westwood's figure, while in some of the 

 other specimens from there it is minute, the remainder of our series being without 

 that spot. 



The specimens of E. dolon from Kulu differ yet a little more from the Sikkimese 

 and other more eastern individuals than our Kumaon examples do, but tlie difference 

 is very slight. 



The locality " Malwah " whence the type came is most likely Malwa Tal iu 

 Kumaon. 



a. £. doIon dolon. 



Cluiraxev dolaii Westwood, Cab. Or. Enl. t. 27. f. 2. 3. ^ (1848) (Malwah, E. Ind.) ; Butl., P. Z. S. 



p. 635. n. 49 (1865) ("E. India" !) ; Nic.'-v., Bull, of Ind. II. p. 272. n. 565 (1886) (pt. : Kulu). 

 Nymphalis dohm, Doubleday, Westw. & Hew., (ien. Diiirn. Lep. II. p. 309. n. 34 (1850) (Mahvah). 

 Munmrda (!) dolor,, Moore, Lri>. hid. II. p. 261 (1896) (pt. ; Kulu). 

 Charajces (Murwaredu) dohm, Mackinnon & Xice'v., Journ. Bombay -V. //. Soc. XI. p. 377. n. 12U 



(1888) (Tehri Uarwhal, 8000 ft., April, May). 



