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which is a broad black outer marginal fascia traversed by a slightly-defined narrow 

 olive-green lunular line. Underside pale olivescent-green ; basal marks distinct; 

 transverse white band and subapical spots, as on upperside ; discal and submarginal 

 blackish fascia on the forewing slender and obscure anteriorly but broad and black 

 posteriorly ; submarginal fascia on the hindwing obsolescent, 



Female. — Upper and underside as in the male. 



Expanse, i 3j^o to 3n). ? '^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim; Bhotan ; Assam. 



DiSTEiBUTroN. — Described by Dr. Staudinger from two males labelled " Darjil- 

 ing," from the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson's Collection. Mr. A. V. Knyvett's native 

 collectors also obtained it near Buxa, in Bhotan. Colonel C. Swiuhoe possesses 

 specimens of both sexes from Cherra Punji, taken by Mr. Hamilton's native collectors. 

 " Probably the rarest species of the group occurring in Sikkim. I possess a single 

 pair only, the female from Bhotan, the male from the Khasia Hills. Mr. Elwes also 

 possesses two males, and Mr. Dudgeon one male, all from Sikkim " (de Niceville, 

 Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, p. 143). Mr. Walter Rothschild possesses specimens 

 from Mr. Otto MoUer's Collection, taken in Sikkim in July and August, and in 

 Bhotan in August. 



Chinese Species. — Labranga Tihetana (Buthalia Thibetana, Poujade, Ann. Ent. 

 Fr. 1885, p. 215), Syn. Euthalia Staudingeri, Leech, Entom. 1891, Suppl. p-. 4, 

 Butt, of China, etc., p. 138, pi. 21, fig. 8 (1893). Eahitat.— Moulin ; W. China. 

 Labranga Ehama, Alpheraky, Iris, 1895, p. 181. Habitat. — ^Y. China. 



Group IV. LIMENITINA. 



Najadeg, Hubner, Tent. Lep. p. 1 (1806). 



Nymphalides (part), Boisduval, Ind. Meth. ii. p. 16 (1840). Kirby, Eur. Butt. p. 41 (1862). 



NymphaUdm (part), Duponchel, Catal. Meth. Lep. Eur. p. 8 (1844). Blanchard, Hist. Nat. des Ins. 



ii. p. 332 (1845). Lang, Rbop. Eur. p. 159 (1884). Dolierty, J. A. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 110. 

 Nymplialidi (part), Stephens Catal. Brit. Lep. B.M. p. 10 (1850). Stainton, Manual Brit. Lep. p. 21 



(1857). Scudder, Butt. U.S. i. p. 249 (1889). 

 Nymphalina (part), Herr. Schaffer, Prod. Sjst. Lep. p. 17 (1864). Distant, Ehop. Malayana, p. 83 



(1882). 

 Nymphalida, Guenee, FaunK E. et L. Lep. p. 23 (1867). 

 NepitidcB, Newman, Brit. Butt. p. 67 (1871). 

 Limenitides, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B.M. p. 57 (1869). 

 Limenitina, Moore, Lep. Indica, ii. p. 225 (1895). 



Chaeactees of the Geoup Limenitina. 



Imago. — Moderately robust, generally. Foreioings either short and more or 

 less triangular, or elongate and narrow ; apex obtuse or rounded ; exterior margin 



