1865.] FROM THE NORTH-WEST HIMALAYAS. 497 
watched its elegant soaring flight, far out of reach, as it floated over 
the blossoms of the horse-chestnut (Pavia indica), or rested on its 
broad leaves in the sunshine. I have also seen it floating up and 
down the foliage-covered face of a steep cliff overhanging a hill-tor- 
rent, and rarely would it come within reach, 
66. Nepris aceris, Esper, t. 81. f. 3,4; t. 82. f. 1. 
Common in woods and gardens in the Himalayas. It has a beau- 
tiful flight, floating in and out of the sunlight in the shade of trees, 
occasionally basking on the sun-bathed foliage, or resting, in groups 
of half a dozen or more, on the moist fern-covered rocks in the midst 
of the stream in some Himalayan glen. 
67. NEpTIs NANDINA, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. pl. 4a. 
f.-7, 
68. Neprtis zarpa, Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep. pl. 35. f. 3. 
An Himalayan species. Has somewhat the same flight as N. aceris, 
but more fond of pitching on the ground in the shade of trees or 
rocks, as the two following species. 
69. ATHYMA LEUCoTHOi, Linn, (Cram. Pap. t. 203. f. E, Ky: 
70. ATHYMA OPALINA, Kollar, Hiigel’s Kaschmir, iy, p- 427; 
Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. pl. 5 asf 2: 
71. LimeNniTis LicyEs, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd 
ser. ii. p. 246 (Nov. 1864). 
Limenitis trivena, Moore, Ent. Monthly Mag. November 1864, 
p. 131. 
Not common, although it has a wide range of some 200 miles 
north and east of Simla ; appearing to prefer the rich woods and 
forests of the moister ranges, but continuing as far as the cedar- 
and Gerard’s pine-forests extend, to Soongnum, the capital of Upper 
Kunawur. On the wing from May to July; flight quick—some- 
times slow, floating in and out of the sunlight. 
72. Hesrina PERsIMriis, Westw. Doubleday & Hewitson, Diurn, 
Lep. p. 281. 
Rare, N.W. Himalayas, 4000 to 7000 feet. One I caught in a 
narrow glen, well wooded with undergrowth ; others in an orchard 
of plum and apricot, on the ripe fruit of which these insects (with 
Castalia and Athyma) were settling, both on the trees and on the 
fallen fruit below the trees. 
73. CasTaia picuroa, Kollar, Hiigel’s Kaschmir, iy. p- 429, 
G8=f, 1,2. 
Same habits and somewhat the same locality as the former; but I 
have also seen it in open woods further in the interior of the Hima- 
layas, pitching on the sprays of tall shrubs ; making rapid flights, 
and returning to the same spot. 
