NYMPRALIN^. (Gnap limenitix-a.) 155 



first subcostal branch emitted at one-third before end of the cell, second at 

 one-sixth before the end ; discocellulars slightly outwardly-oblique, middle disco- 

 cellular slightly bent near lower end, lower discocellular slightly concave posteriorly ; 

 middle median emitted immediately before lower end of cell. Hindwing broad ; 

 exterior margin broadly convex hindward and deeply scalloped, anal angle rounded ; 

 cell broad, closed ; precostal vein somewhat bent in the middle, emitted opposite the 

 subcostal; two upper medians emittted from end of cell. Body moderately stout; 

 palpi densely squamous beneath, second joint hairy above, apex conical and 

 pointed ; antennae with a lengthened slender club ; eyes naked. Sexes alike. 

 TrPE. — B. Austenia. 



BHAGADATTA ATISTENIA (Plate 251, fig. 2, 2a, 3). 



Lehadea Austenia, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 1872, p. 560, pi. 32, fig. 1 ^. 

 Limenitis Austenia, de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 157 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female dark olivescent umber-brown, with purplish reflections 

 Both wings crossed by a discal pale brown fascia, which, on the forewing, outwardly 

 curves in a sei'ies of deep lunules from the costa and extends thence on the 

 hindwing more broadly and diffused to above the anal angle ; beyond is an outer 

 discal transverse series of prominent pale bordered, dark-brown, dentate lunular 

 marks, those from the costa of the forewing being most defined and dentate in form, 

 and with slender white borders, and thence decreasing in width posteriorly ; those 

 on the hindwing uniformly narrow ; the area exterior to these pale brown with a 

 submarginal and marginal dark lunular line. Cell of forewing crossed by six and 

 that of the hindwing by four black streaks. Underside paler, greyish-brown, the 

 base pale lilacine-grey ; markings as above, but more defined ; the discal and outer 

 lunules pale lilacine-grey bordered. Body and palpi above brown, beneath and legs 

 greyish-white, antennae black. 



Expanse, 3 to S^j inches. 



Habitat. — Upper Assam ; Khasias ; Cachar. 



DiSTEiBCjTiON. — We possess the male type specimen, taken by Col. Godwin- 

 Austen in the Khasia Hills. " The Indian Museum, Calcutta, possesses two 

 specimens, also taken by Col. Godwin-Austen at Sarathu in the Khasia Hills, and 

 another pair taken by Mr. Wood-Mason on Memotha Peak, Cachar, in September " 

 (de Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. 157). Mr. W. Doherty obtained four males and one 

 female at Margharita, S.E. of Sadya, Upper Assam, in May, 1889, where, according 

 to his observations, it is a low country insect " (P. Z. S. 1891, 278). 



Malayan allied Genus. — Pandita, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India 

 Company, i. p. 181 (1857). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 146 (1883). — Male. Wings 



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