NYMPHALINJi. (Group EVRTTELINA.) 21 



reddish or brownisli-ochreous, beneath and legs greyish-brown ; palpi brown above, 

 greyish-brown beneath, tipt with black; antennae ochreous. 



Female. Upperside somewhat paler and duller coloured ; the subapical white 

 spot prominent ; all the transverse markings as in male, those on its hindwing being 

 continued to the costa. Underside more or less pale brownish-ochreous or greyish- 

 ocbreons ; all the transverse markings less prominent than in male, and those on the 

 forewiug continued to the posterior margin. 



Expanse, c? 2 to '2^%, ? 2i"o to 2i^o inches. 



Dry-season brood (Plate 383, fiy. 1, d, a, U $ ? ). 

 Ergolis tapestrina, Moore, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 19. 



Male and female. Upperside paler than in wet-season brood, brownish- 

 ochreous ; with similar transverse sinuous lines on both wings, the two inner-discal 

 lines being somewhat nearer together, the two outer-discal lines forming slightly- 

 defined cordate marks ; the interspaces between the basal lines, the subbasal and 

 medial lines, the discal cordiform marks and the marginal line, and the outer maro-in, 

 are distinctly of a more dusky colour, thus giving the wings the appearance of being 

 marked with alternate pale and dusky transverse sinuous bands. Underside also 

 paler, especially in the male, in which sex tlie transverse castaneous bands are 

 duller, and much less defined, those in the female being also less defined. 



Expanse, <S l^^ to 2, § 2^-0 to 2i% inches. 



Larva. — Cylindrical, slender; segments armed with two dorsal and two lateral 

 rows of short branched-spines ; head with a pair of long straight brauched-spines. 

 Colour green, with dorsal longitudinal dark brown lines. 



Pupa. — Similar to that of E. Ariadne. 



Habitat. — Northern and Continental India; Burma; Tenasserim ; Malay 

 Peninsula ; Penang ; Sumatra. 



Distribution. — " This is a common species ; I have taken it plentifully in 

 Calcutta and in Sikkim at low elevations, but only on one occasion at Simla. It 

 occurs also rarely at Masui^i. Mr. S. E. Peal obtained it at Sibsagar in Upper 

 Assam, and Mr. Wood-Mason took it in Cachar. Mr. W. C. Taylor found it 

 common in Orissa. Col. Swinhoe has taken it at Deesa, in Eajputana, and has 

 received it from the Mlgiris ; Capt. C. T. Bingham obtained it in the Thoungyeen 

 Valley, and the Donat Range in Upper Tenasserim in the early months of the year" 

 (de Niceville, I.e. p. 9). We possess a male from Kashmir, received from the late 

 Capt. R. Bayne Reed, also examples from Nepal, Bhotan, Bengal, Dehra Dhun, 

 Manipur (C. Home), Poona, ivet-season form, taken by Col. C. Swinhoe in June, and 

 dry-season form, taken in November and January ; others from Chittagong; wet form 



