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tubercles; third segment with two large elongated fleshy clavate processes; both 

 covered with irregularly disposed clustered short stout spines ; fourth, sixth, 

 eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth segment with two subdorsal short nodular processes, 

 the apex of each set with short stout spines ; fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and 

 tenth with incipiently developed very slightly similar nodular processes. 



Chrysalis. — Eather stout. Head obtusely pointed in front, vertex convex, 

 thorax raised and convex, medio-dorsum with a raised convex hump, wing cases 

 and segments beneath somewhat arched. 



Type. — N. Populi. 



NAJAS TRIVENA (Plate 255, fig. 1, la, h, $ ? )• 



Limenitis Trivena, Moore, Entom. Monthly Mag. Nov. 1864:, p. 133. de NiceviUe, Butt, of India, 

 etc., ii. p. 161 (1886). 



lirAGO. — Male. TJpperside olivescent fuliginous-brown ; cilia alternately black 

 and white ; both wings with a transverse discal broad white band, beyond which is 

 a submarginal ill-defined row of pale brownish-ochreous lunules, bordered inwardly 

 by broad black dentate spots, and outwardly by a narrower black lunular line. 

 Forewing also with three or four subapical small decreasing white spots ; the cell 

 crossed by an outwardly- oblique broad white streak, on each side of which is a 

 black-bordered indistinct pale ochreous-brown streak, and below the cell is a similar 

 coloured ringlet mark. Underside pale yellowish-ochreous, with the broad white 

 band, apical spots and cell streak, as above. Forewing also with the interspace of 

 inner cell streak and of the discocellular streak, and before the subapical spot 

 brighter ochreous ; mark below the cell externally edged with white ; discal band 

 slightly bordered with diffused black. 



Female. TJpperside as in the male ; markings more prominent, the basal 

 area greyish, lower basal mark whitish bordered externally. Underside as in the 

 male. Body above dark brown ; palpi whitish, edged and tipt with black ; legs 

 whitish ; autennse black, tipt with ochreous. 

 Expanse, c? 2j^, ? 2^-0 inches. 

 Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Mr. de Niceville states that " it occurs in the outer ranges of the 

 Himalayas and farthest to the South. I took a single female on the top of Jakko, 

 Simla, and there are numerous specimens of both sexes also from Simla in Col. 

 Lang's collection. Major Marshall has observed it on the wing in the spring on the 

 road down to Sipi from Mashobra, near Simla ; I found it common at Kujiah, near 

 Dalhousie, in June, in Chumba, and at Mogul Maidan, Kashmir, in the same month ; 

 it occurs also in Murree, and Mr. A. Graham Young has obtained numerous examples 



