﻿236 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Dry-season brood (Plate 280, fig. 1, la, b, c, c? $ ). 



Imago, — Male and female. Upperside olivescent-black ; markings yellowish- 

 white, Forewing with a broad entire cell-streak ; discocellular spot entirely separated 

 but contiguous, large, broad, elongate and acute at tip ; discal seines of sj^ots large and 

 elongated, the lower four disposed in a regular oblique linear series, as in N. Varmona ; 

 submarginal row of small lunular spots very prominent ; inner submarginal and 

 marginal slender pale line obscure. Hindwing with a broad inner-discal band, which 

 is widest anteriorly, and even-edged in the male but less regular in the female ; an 

 outer-discal broad quadrate macular band, a medial-discal and a marginal slender 

 pale lunular line. Underside brownish-ferruginous ; markings as above, very 

 prominent, the cell-streak, discoidal spot, and discal bands paler yellowish- 

 white; the marginal lines, basal streaks, and medial discal line in the hindwing 

 being lilacine white, and all without any trace of black edging ; the subapical 

 spots widened out to the costal border. Bodg and palpi above black, thorax 

 iridescent ; body and palpi beneath and legs greyish- white ; antennae above black, 

 reddish beneath. 



Expanse, c? 2i^o to 2^%, ? 2^% to 2^^ inches. 



Wet-season brood (Plate 280, fig. 1, d, e, f, g, S 9 )■ 



Male and female. Upperside with the markings somewhat smaller and narrower 

 than in dry-season brood, and of a sullied olivescent yellowish- white. Underside 

 purpurescent brownish-ferruginous ; markings white, as in dry-season, but somewhat 

 smaller and narrow as above, and tinged with brighter lilacine. 



Expanse, S 2^o to 2^^, ? 2^^ to 2^^ inches. 



Habitat, — N.W, and E, Himalayas; Khasia Hills; Upper Burma. 



DiSTEiBtjTiON. — "We possess examples of this species from Campbellpore, taken by 

 Major Yerbury ; Naini Tal ; Murree ; dry and wet-season forms from Nepal, taken by 

 General Gr. Eamsay ; Sikkim, taken in March by Mr. CI, C. Dudgeon ; Khasia Hills, 

 and a male from the Upper Mekong, Shan States, Burma, taken by Mr. R. Roberts, 

 C.E, ; Major H. B. Hellard obtained it in " Kashmir, in September" (MS. Note), 

 Major J, W. Yerbury obtained it at " Dhum Tower, near Abbottabad, in October " 

 (Ann. N, H. 1888, 143). Mr. W. Doherty records it from " Loharkhet, N.W. 

 Kuraaon, at 5000 feet elevation" (J. A. S. Beng. 1866, 125). A female, 

 labelled Afghanistan, is in Mr. "W. Rothschild's collection. Mr. de Niceville 

 records it as " not uncommon in Sikkim, up to 4000 feet, from April to December. 

 The larva, as observed in Masuri, feeding on Geltis australis " (Sikkim Gazetteer, 

 1894, 138). 



