NYMPHALIN^E. (Gronp limenitina.) 37 



latter a slight band ; bodj and palpi beneath and legs pale grejisli-oclireous, the 

 middle and hind tibige and tarsi being very pale ochreous ; antennae black, tip 

 reddish-ochreous. 



Expanse, <S l^-j, to li-o?,lro iicb. 



Wet-season brood (Plate 302, fig 2, c, d, ? ). 



Male and female. Upperside with the discoidal streak and discal bands some- 

 what narrower, the three marginal lines on forewing distinct, and the marginal line 

 on hindwing also very distinct. Underside with the ground-colour dusky ochreous- 

 brown, the markings brighter yellowish-ochreous and more distinctly defined, those 

 on the hindwing more prominently black-edged. 



Expanse, c? I^-q to I^q, ? In, inch. 



Habitat. — Assam; Silhet ; Dafla Hills; Naga Hills; Burma; Tenasserim; 

 Malay Peninsula, etc. 



Distribution. — Mr. de Niceville records it from "Silhet and the Dafla Hills " 

 (Butt. Ind. ii. 80). A specimen from the Naga Hills is in Mr. W. Rothschild's 

 collection. " Mr. H. M. Parish obtained it in the Chittagong District in October 

 and November" (Butt. Ind. ii. SO.). Mr. de Niceville also records it from Jorehat, 

 Assam ; Bassein, in Arakan ; Bhamo, Upper Bui-ma ; Perak, Malay Peninsula ; 

 Nias ; Sumatra; Java; and Boi-neo " (J. A. S. Bengal, 1895, 25). We possess 

 examples from Mergui, Malacca, Sumatra, and Sarawak, Borneo. Col. C. H. B. 

 A damson records it as "common in Burma" (List, p. 19). Capt. E. Y.Watson 

 obtained *' three specimens in the Upper Chindwin Hills, in April and May" (J. 

 BombayN. H. S. 1897,653). Dr. J. Anderson took it in "Mergui, in March" 

 (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 36). We have verified specimens from Nias Island, in the 

 collection of Mr. W. Rothschild and of Mr. H. Grose-Smith, and from Malacca, 

 Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, in the British Museum. 



RAHINDA ASSAMICA (Plate 30-3, fig. 1, la, S)- 



Rahinda Assamica, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 311, J. 

 Neptis Assamica, de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 80 (18S6). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark ochreous-brown, almost black ; cilia slightly 

 alternated with grey. Forewing with a broad deep reddish-ochreous discoidal streak 

 occupying the whole area of the cell and extending to middle of the disc ; the discal 

 interrupted band broad, the lower portion slightly constricted in the middle ; followed 

 by an obscure reddish slender submarginal line. Hindwing with a broad reddish- 

 ochreous inner-discal band and outer-discal band, both being confluent between the 



