﻿NTMPHALIN^. (Group LIJTEmTIXA.) J41 



which is a broad black outer marginal fascia traversed by a slightly-defined narrow 

 olive-green lunular line. Underside pale olivescent-green ; basal marks distinct ; 

 transverse white band and subapical spots, as on upperside ; discal and submarginal 

 blackish fascia on the forewing slender and obscure anteriorly but broad and black 

 posteriorly ; submarginal fascia on the hindwing obsolescent. 



Female. — Upper and underside as in the male. 



Expanse, c? 3j^o to S^-q, ? 4 inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Assam. 



Distribution. — Described by Dr. Staudiuger from two males labelled " Darjil- 

 ing," from the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson's Collection. Mr. A. V. Knyvett's native 

 collectors also obtained it near Buxa, in Bhotan. Colonel C. Swiuhoe possesses 

 specimens of both sexes from Cherra Punji, taken by Mr. Hamilton's native collectors. 

 " Probably the rarest species of the group occurring in Sikkim. I possess a single 

 pair only, the female from Bhotan, the male from the Khasia Hills. Mr. Elwes also 

 possesses two males, and Mr. Dudgeon one male, all from Sikkim " (de Niceville, 

 Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 143). Mr. Walter Rothschild possesses specimens 

 from Mr. Otto Mdller's Collection, taken in Sikkim in July and August, and in 

 Bhotan in August. 



Chinese Species. — Labranga Tihetana (Euthalia Thibetana, Poujade, Ann. Ent. 

 Fr. 1885, p. 215), Syn. Euthalia Staudingeri, Leech, Entom. 1891, Suppl. p. 4, 

 Butt, of China, etc., p. 138, pL 21, fig. 8 (1893). EaUtat.—Mou\:)m ; W. China. 

 Labranga Khavia, Alpheraky, Iris, 1895, p. 181. Habitat. — W. China. 



Group IV. LIMENITINA. 



Najades, Hubner, Tent. Lep. p. 1 (1806). 



Nymphalides (part), Boisduval, Ind. Meth. ii. p. 16 (IS-iO). Kirby, Eur. Butt. p. 41 (1862). 



iVj/mpAaMfK (part), Duponchel, Catal. Meth. Lep. Eur. p. 8 (1844). Blanohard, Hist. Nat. des Ins. 



ii. p. 332 (1845). Lang, Rhop. Eur. p. 159 (1884). Doherty, J. A. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 110. 

 Nymphalidi (part), Stephens Catal. Brit. Lep. B.M. p. 10 (1850). Stainton, Manual Brit. Lep. p. 21 



(1857). Scudder, Butt. U.S. i. p. 249 (1889). 

 Nymplialina (part), Herr. Schiiffer, Prod. Syst. Lep. p. 17 (1864). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 83 



(1882). 

 Nymj/halida, Guenee, Faunae E. et L. Lep. p. 23 (1867). 

 NepitidcB, Newman, Brit. Butt. p. 67 (1871). 

 Limenitides, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B.M. p. 57 (1869). 

 Limenitina, Moore, Lep. Lidica, ii. p. 225 (1895). 



Characters of the Group Limenitina. 



Imago. — Moderately robust, generally. Forewings either short and more or 

 less triangular, or elongate and narrow ; apex obtuse or rounded ; exterior margin 



