NYUPHALIN^. (Group CBARAXINA.) 245 



Female. Upperside similar to male. Forewing with the white transverse band 

 broader, anteriorly broken by a broad subcostal black streak, and with a broad 

 black-speckled inner discal border extending to near the submedian vein ; the outer 

 series of white spots large and lunular. Hindwing with the white upper discal band 

 broader and extending to near the middle median veinlet ; the submarginal black 

 macular band broader and with slender white lunular marks. Underside as in the 

 male, but somewhat more olivescent in tint. Body dark brownish-ochreous ; palpi 

 above black ; palpi beneath and pectus white ; legs brownish-ochreous ; fore tarsi 

 white ; antennae black ; eyes red. 



Expanse, c? S^-q, ? 4<^o to 4^q inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Naga Hills. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — " Common in Sikkim throughout the summer months at low 

 elevations" (de Niceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 149). Specimens taken by the late 

 Mr. Otto MoUer in Sikkim in June and July are in Mr. W. Rothschild's collection. 

 It was also taken at Buxa in Bhotan by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon. Specimens from the 

 Naga Hills are also in Mr. W. Rothschild's collection. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 181, fig, 1 is from Mr. Butler's 

 type male of Ehimalara, and figs, la, b, c, are from male and female identical with 

 Felder's types. 



HARIDEA KHASIANA (Plate 182, figs. 1, la, c? ? ). 



Charaxes Khasianus, Butler, Lep. Exotica, p. 98, pi. 37, fig. 6, (J ? (1872). de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, etc. ii. p. 293 (1886). 

 Charaxes Pleistoanax (female only), Felder, Eeise Novara iii. p. 443. 



Imago. — Male. Similar to H. Pleistoanax. Upperside differs in the olivaceous- 

 ochreous basal area and hindwing being paler. Forewing with the bluish-white 

 discal band broader and extending diffusedly within the basal area beyond the 

 sinuous black line, which latter is generally broadly defined ; submarginal series of 

 spots small or lunulate. Hindwing with the white discal band also broader and 

 extending diffusedly inwards more or less beyond the black sinuous line ; sub- 

 marginal black macular decreasing band with white lunate marks. Underside 

 similar to H. Pleistoanax, but generally more ochreous. 



Female. Upperside similar to H. Pleistoanax, but with the basal areas muc 

 paler, the abdominal margin of hindwing and its outer border also much paler. 

 Forewing with the discal bluish-white band much broader, and also extendino- 

 diffusedly inward more or less beyond the blackish-speckled virgula ; the outer 

 marginal series of spots white, large, and conspicuous. Rindioing with the white 



