﻿NYMPHAIA.WE. (^h-Mp LiuE.yiri.\A.) 201 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich purpurescent browuish-black ; cilia very 

 slightly alternated with white. Foreiving with a narrow indistinctly-defined sullied 

 reddish-ochreous discoidal sti'eak ; an interrupted discal transverse prominent 

 bluish-white band, widest in dnj-i<eamn examples, composed of two, or more generally 

 three, subapical outwardly-oblique ovate spots, the lowest, when present, beino^ the 

 smallest, and three lower inwardly-oblique larger spots from the middle median, ths 

 upper rounded, the next quadrate and laterally indented, the lowest narrow, these 

 three being laterally inwardly-edged with blue scales; very rarely there is a minute 

 conjoined spot also present between the uppsr medians ; b3yond is a submarginal 

 pale bi'own lunular line ending at its costal end in a bright reddish-oohreous spot, 

 followed by a marginal pale brown line, these two lines baing palest in dnj -season 

 forms. Hindiinng crossed by a prominent bluish-white inner-discal band inwardly 

 edged with blue scales, followed by a submarginal pale brown lunular fascia, and a 

 marginal line. Underside yellowish-ochreous, palest in the dri/season, form, darker 

 in the wet-season form ; discal transverse white band as on upperside. Foreioing also 

 with prominent unbroken but irregular-edged discoidal streak and the marginal 

 lunular lines pale violet-blue; the discal interspaces anteriorly clouded with 

 brownish-ochreous and posteriorly with brownish-black, darkest in wet-season form ; 

 a basal black spot below the cell. Hindwing also with a prominent subbasal 

 curved subcostal streak, submarginal lunular band and marginal line pale 

 violet-blue ; a medial discal row of dark ochi^eous-brown lunate patches ; abdominal 

 margin bluish-grey. 



Female. Upperside dark olivescent brownish-black ; markings yellowish- 

 ochreous, darkest and brightest in ^mt-season form. Forewing with a prominent 

 yellowish-ochreous sharply-defined discoidal streak which is entire to beyond the 

 cell, its lower edge being straight and its upper edge irregular but not distinctly 

 indented ; a discal interrupted band composed of larger and broader subapical and 

 lower spots, the marginal pale brown lunular lines distinct. Hindwing with 

 yellowish-ochreous inner-discal broad band and submarginal band of nearly equal 

 width, but widest in the dry-season form ; the pale brown marginal line distinct. 

 Underside pale yellowish-ochreous in drg-season form, darker ochreous in wet-season 

 form ; markings as in the male, but less prominent, the discal white macular band 

 on forewing sulhed externally with pale ochreous. Bodij and palpi above black ; 

 abdomen with a broad bluish-white band ; body and palpi beneath and legs pale 

 bluish-grey ; antenna} black, tip reddish beneath. 



Expanse, S 2^^ to 3, ? 2^^^ to 3i*o inches. 



Habitat. — Western and Eastern Himalayas ; Assam ; Upper Burma. 



DisTHiBUTiON. — Capt. A. M. Lang records a male of this species taken in his 

 own garden at Masuri, on ]\Iay 14th, 1S68, observing (MS. Notes, p. 201), "this is 

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