﻿NYMPHALIN^. (Group LnlENlTINJ.) 149 



AUZAKIA DANAVA (Plate 249, fig. 1, la, h, c, ^ ? ). 



Limenitis Dannva, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Company, i. p. 180, pi. 6a, fig. 2, <;? ? (1857). 

 de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 157 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside olive-black from the base to obliquely across half of 

 the forewiiig, the outer area being more or less pale olive-brown. Cilia brown. 

 Forewinr/ with pale interspaced black bars within the cell ; a similar discocellular 

 bar, and one below the cell ; discal transverse edge of the dark basal area sharply 

 defined and sinuous, its outer edge more or less pale and lunular; a small white dentate 

 spot on the costa before the apex ; outer area crossed by a broad discal olive-black 

 lunular fascia, a contiguous less-defined lunular slender fascia, followed by a slender 

 submargiual lunular fascia, and then by a marginal fascia. Hindivinr/ with obscui-ely 

 defined basal black cell-bars ; the transverse discal edge of the dark basal area 

 straight, followed by two broad discal decreasing brown fascia, a wavy submarginal 

 and a marginal fascia, the anal area being suS'used with glossy olive-green. Under- 

 side pale olivescent ochreous-brown ; the markings as above but ill-defined. Fore- 

 wing with the basal marks slender, their interspaces being violet-grey ; the transverse 

 outer fasciee edged more or less with violet-grey, the submarginal fascia ending in a 

 patch at the apex. Hindwing with three distinct basal marks interspaced with 

 violet-grey ; the transverse outer fasciae broadly edged with suffused violet-grey. 



Female. Upperside paler olive-brown ; markings similar to the male ; the 

 interspaces of basal marks also paler ; the sinuous outer border of the basal area 

 and submarginal fascia broadly olivescent white. Underside much paler olivescent- 

 brown ; markings similar to the male, but less defined, and more diffused. Bodi/ 

 above dark olive-brown ; palpi above brown, beneath and legs brownish-white ; 

 body beneath olivescent- white ; antennse brown, tipt with red beneath. All the 

 above markings are paler and less intensified in the dry-season brood of both sexes. 



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



Habitat. — W. and E. Himalayas; Assam; Naga Hills; Khasia Hills; Upper 

 Burma. 



Distribution. — Mr. de Niceville records it " as having a wide range in the 

 Himalayas, occurring from Masuri to Sibsagar in Upper Assam " (Butt. lud. ii. 158). 

 The late Capt. R. Bayne Reed obtained it in Kashmir (MS. Notes), and the late 

 Major-General Gr. Ramsay took numerous specimens in Nepal. Mr. H. J. Elwes 

 records it as " rare in Sikkim at elevations up to 7000 feet, from April to October, 

 the female being seldom found " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 352). Mr. de Niceville also 

 says, " the male is rather rare in Sikkim, but is found from April to October from 

 1500 to 7000 feet. The female being excessively scarce" (Sikkim Gaz. 1894, 140). 

 Mr. W. Doherty found it "rather rare in the Naga Hills" (P. Z. S. 1891, 277). 



