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I have at tlie same time given Mr. Moore's views in e.xlenso and all his original 

 descriptions to enable future observers to further investigate tlie vaUie of them, I have also 

 in the headings to the species given his localities and measurements only. 



551- Eallima inacliis, Boisduvai. 



/"rt/Zi/fl /«(ii-/wj, Boisduval, Crochard's Edit. Cuvier's Reg. Anim., Ins., vol. ii, pi. cxxxix, fig. 2, female ; 

 },(i, front view of head' (i%i€) ; Kallima iiiachis, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1879, p. ii. 



Habitat : Sikkim Himalayas. 



Expanse : $ , 325 ; $,39 inches. 



Description : " Upperside. Forewlng, with broad fulvous band extending to outer 

 marghi, a short apical point in the male and a very prolonged one in the female ; the 

 discal hyaline spot larger than in the other species. Hindwing bright violet blue, the 

 outer border paler, and prominently marked with short brown strigje. Underside, 

 ochreous-brown, vinous-tinted, minutely brown-speckled ; rib-line indistinct. A large, dark, 

 bright violet-blue, prominently-marked species." {Moore, I.e.) 



Mr, Moore remarks that " Dr. Boisduvai gives Nepal as the habitat of the species he 

 figures as above. This is doubtless an error." As Sikkim and Nepal are conterminous and 

 have the same climate, it is certain that K. inachis occurs in both localities. K. inachis is 

 ,the type of the Indian yellow-banded group of the genus. The original spelling inachus should 

 probably be restored, but as it has almost universally been known as inacJiis, I have retained 

 it here. The colouration of the type figure is pale blue like that of the next species. 



Typical K. inachis has a wide range, extending from Masuri on the west to Upper Assam 

 in the east, I have specimens also from Orissa {W. C. Taylor) and Pachmarhi {J. A. Betham) 

 which appear to be quite typical, Mr. W. Doherty has taken it on the Eastern Ghats north 

 of the Godavery. 



552. Kallima Imegelii, Koiiar. 



Paphia hugeUi, Kollar, in Hugel's Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt. 2, p. 432, n. i, pi. ix, 7nale and female (1848) ; 

 Aa////«<3; /««:^«//, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1S79, p. 12; K. kiigeli, id., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882,' 

 p. 239 ; Paphia. parakckta, Westwood in Royle's Himalayan Bot., p. liii, pi. x, figs. 3«, 3^, male (1839) ; 

 Amathusia inachis, Herrich-Schiiffer, Ex. Schmett., p. 77, nos. 7, 8, figs. 7, ^, female (1852). 



Habitat : N.-W. Himalayas, Kashmir. 



Expanse : ^ , 3-4 ; ? , 3'S inches. 



Description : " May be at once distinguished by the very pale grey-blue colour of the 

 basal area of both zuings. Underside greyish-ochreous, of uniform tint throughout ; frequent- 

 ly black-mottled ; rib-line indistinct. Female, Jorewing with less prolonged apex than in 

 K, inachis.^' {Moore, 1. c.) 



This is the common form of the genus occurring in the Western Himalayas, and dis- 

 tinguished from the Eastern form (the true IC inachis) by its much paler blue colouration on 

 the upperside. The markings of the underside are very variable, Mr. Hocking states that 

 it is " single-brooded in July. Flies about till the cold weather in November, and then 

 hibernates, and comes out again in April, Taken at sugar in April." 



Below* is given a description of K, buckleyi, which is recorded from the N.-W. Himalayas. 

 As the presence or absence of the hyaline spots on the forewing is very inconstant, and the 

 markings of the underside still more so, I think there is little doubt that K. buckleyi is 



* Kallima buckleyi, ]\Ioore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. n. Habitat : N.-W. Himalayas. Expanse • 

 Male and female, \'o inches. Description : " Allied to K. inachis, but larger. Upperside, outline of wings' 

 similar to K. inachis.^ Forewing, with a shorter and broader fulvous band than in any of the other species : the 

 discal spot blind (having no hyaline centre) in the male, and present only as a minute slender one in the female * 

 basal area uniform greyish-blue. Ifindwing, uniform greyish-blue. Underside, dusky purple-brown in the 

 male, rib-line indistinct ; bright reddish-brown in the female, with greyish-purple sinuous fascicE." (Moore, 1. c.) 



There is a single male from Simla in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, which agrees with this description, but 

 another Simla specimen which is typical in other respects has a hyaline centre to the discal spot on the forewing. 

 In both these specimens the basal area of both wings on the upperside is darker than in typical A', huegelii 

 but it is lighter than in typical A', inacliis ; the discal orange band Oil ihe Upperside of the forewiug is wider 

 ihau iu eitlier, and eiid^ at a greater diblaace figm the margin. 



