236 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Dry-season trood (Plate 280, fig. 1, la, b, c, cj 9 ). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside olivescent-black ; markings yellowisli- 

 wLite. Foreiving with a broad entire cell-streak ; discocelliilar spot entirely separated 

 but contiguous, large, broad, elongate and acute at tip ; discal series of spots large and 

 elongated, the lower four disposed in a regular oblique linear series, as in N. Varmona ; 

 submarginal row of small lunular spots very prominent ; inner submarginal and 

 marginal slender pale line obscure. Hindwing with a broad inner-discal band, which 

 is widest anteriorly, and even -edged in the male but less regular in the female ; an 

 outer-discal broad quadrate macular band, a medial-discal and a marginal slender 

 pale lunular line. Underside brownish-ferruginous; markings as above, very 

 prominent, the cell-streak, discoidal spot, and discal bands paler yellowish- 

 white ; the marginal lines, basal streaks, and medial discal line in the hindwing 

 being lilacine white, and all without any trace of black edging ; the subapical 

 spots widened out to the costal border. Body and palpi above black, thorax 

 iridescent ; body and palpi beneath and legs greyish- white ; antenna above black, 

 reddish beneath. 



Expanse, t? 2^^ to 2^q, ? 2^ to 2i^o inches. 



Wet-season hrood (Plate 280, fig. 1, d, e, f, g, <? ? ). 



Male and female. Upperside with the markings somewhat smaller and narrower 

 than in dry-season brood, and of a sullied olivescent yellowish- white. Underside 

 purpurescent brownish-ferruginous ; markings white, as in dry-season, but somewhat 

 smaller and narrow as above, and tinged with brighter lilacine. 



Expanse, c? 2i^o to 2i^o» ? ^^^q to 2fo inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. and E. Himalayas; Khasia Hills; Upper Burma. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — We possess examples of this species from Campbellpore, taken by 

 Major Yerbury ; Naini Tal ; Murree ; dry and wet-season forms from Nepal, taken by 

 General G. Kamsay ; Sikkim, taken in March by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon ; Khasia Hills, 

 and a male from the Upper Mekong, Shan States, Burma, taken by Mr. R. Roberts, 

 C.E. ; Major H. B. Hellard obtained it in " Kashmir, in September" (MS. Note). 

 Major J. W. Yerbury obtained it at " Dhum Tower, near Abbottabad, in October " 

 (Ann. N. H. 1888, 143). Mr. W. Doherty records it from " Loharkhet, N.W. 

 Kumaon, at 50U0 feet elevation" (J. A. S. Beng. 18S6, 125). A female, 

 labelled Afghanistan, is in Mr. W. Rothschild's collection. Mr. de Niceville 

 records it as " not uncommon in Sikkim, up to 4000 feet, from April to December. 

 The larva, as observed in Masuri, feeding on Geltls australis " (Sikkim Gazetteer, 

 1894, 138). 



