NYMPHALINM iGmnp fotamina.) 13 



Female. Upperside duller black, the base and outer area being tinged with 

 olivescent-grey ; markings similarly disposed, but the two discal bands on the forewing 

 are dull lilacine-white, and the discal band on the hindwing narrower and also bright 

 lilacine-white. Underside. Forewing as in the male. Hindwing with the discal 

 fascia more defined and whiter than in male. 



Expanse, c? 2j;^o to 3, ? 3 inches. 



Habitat. — "W. and E. Himalayas; Naga Hills ; Shan Hills. 



Distribution. — This beautiful butterfly has a very wide range, but appears to 

 be a rare species wherever it occurs. We possess males from Kashmir, taken by 

 the late Capt. Bayne Reed, females from Kasauli, and males from Nepal, taken by the 

 late G-eneral G. Eamsay, and others from the Khasia Hills, taken by Colonel Godwin 

 Austen, who also took it in Shillong and Manipur. Capt. A. M. Lang, in his MS. 

 notes on the Lepidoptera of the Simla and Kunawur districts, records the capture 

 of this species at " Kundloo and Munglad in July." " The Rev. J. Hocking took 

 it in the Kangra Valley at 6000 feet, in August. Major Marshall found a single 

 female in his house at Summer Hill, Simla, in August. Mr. de Niceville took 

 several males flying round the temples on the bare top of Tara Devi, opposite Simla, 

 and one in the bed of the Simla river was taken by Mr. C. A. R. Crommelin ; there 

 are males in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Masuri, taken by Col. Buckley, 

 four or five were sent from Nepal by Dr. Scully, and there are specimens from the 

 Naga Hills" (Butt. Ind. ii. 48). "Mr. A. V. Knyvett's collectors have obtained 

 this species in Bhotan. I have not heard of its being captured in Sikkim, though 

 it certainly occurs there. It has a very wide range from the West to the East end 

 of the Himalayas, and through the Naga Hills and Shan Hills to the Black river in 

 Upper Tonkin" (de Niceville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 134). Dr. N. Manders 

 (Tr. But. Soc. 1890, 521), in his notes on the Lepidoptera of the Shan States, 

 Burma, records two males taken at " Fort Stedman in July." 



Chinese Allied Species of Dilipa. — Dilipa fenestra (Vanessa fenestra. Leech, 

 Entom. 1891, Suppl. p. 26; Butt, of China, etc., p. 165, pi. 14, fig. 2, ? (1892). 

 Syn. Apatura Chrysus, Oberthur, Etud. Ent. xv. p. 10, pi. 1, fig. 6, (J (1891). 

 Habitat. Omeishan, W. China. 



Allied Chinese Genus. — Genus Sincana. Allied to Dilipa. Male. Foreioing 

 more prolonged, broader and more convex at the apex, the exterior margin deeply 

 concave in the middle ; first and second subcostal branches emitted before end of 

 the cell ; the cell open, Hindwing more produced posteriorly ; the cell open ; 

 middle and upper median much shorter. Palpi much smaller ; antennal club shorter 

 and spatular ; eyes naked. Type. — S. fulva. — Sincana fulva (Apatura fulva. Leech, 

 Entom. 1891, Suppl. p. 30 ; Butt. China, etc., p. 158, pi. 15, fig. 2, c? (1892). 

 Grose-Smith and Kirby, Rhop. Exot. Aj}. pi. fig. 5, 6, <S (1892). Habitat. W. China. 



