NYMFHALIN^. (Group LIMENITINA.) 6 



including the two marginal lunular lines on both wings. Hindwing also with a 

 narrow pinkish-white basal and a subbasal fascia, and a less-defined medial discal 

 sinuous fascia. 



Female. Upperside as in male; markings the same, but in some examples 

 slightly sullied yellowish-white. Underside as in male. Body and palpi above 

 fuliginous-black; palpi and thorax beneath, forelegs, middle and hind femora 

 greyish-white ; abdomen beneath and middle and hind tibiiB and tarsi pale ochreous- 

 white. 



Expanse, <S 2^^, ¥ 3 inches. 



Bry-season brood (Plate 289, fig. Id, e, f, g, (^^ 9 ). 

 Nppfis Amboides, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 2J<1, S 9. 



Smaller than wet-season brood. Male. Upperside. Ground-colour duller black. 

 Forewing with the discoidal streak broader, the discal spots also broader and more 

 compactly disposed. Hindwing with the discal band broader. Underside ground- 

 colour somewhat paler and duller coloured ; markings broad, as above, otherwise as 

 in wet-season. 



Female. Upperside ; ground-colour duller black than in wet-season, the 

 markings sullied white. Underside as in male. 



Expanse, S 2^q, ? 2j\, inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas ; Nepal. 



Note. — We have identified KoUar's insect {Sanlcara) with that of Amba, from a 

 coloured drawing of his type specimen in the Nat. History Museum at Vienna, 

 kindly sent to us by Dr. Rogenhoffer. 



Distribution. — We possess a male of the wet-season form taken in Kashmir by 

 the late Capt. R. Bayne Reed, two females from Naini Tal, and both sexes from 

 Nepal, taken by the late Genl. G. Ramsay ; we have also the type specimens of the 

 dry-season form (Amboides), the males from Ruttun Pir, Kashmir, taken by Capt. 

 Reed, and the female from Kangra, taken by the Rev. J. H. Hocking. There are 

 specimens from Simla, Kangra, and Almora, in the British Museum. Mr. J. H. 

 Leech possesses specimens from Sultanpur, Kulu, taken by Mr. A. G. Young, and 

 from Dana, taken in August by Mr. MacArthur. Mr. L. de Niceville records it as 

 " a common species in Simla ; specimens from Kulu Valley and Masuri are in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta, and in Col. A. M. Lang's collection, from Kunawur. Mrs. 

 Deane took it in Chini in June " (Butt. Ind. ii. 88). Mr. W. Doherty records it 

 from the " Kali and Sarsu Valleys, 2000 to 5000 feet elevation, Kumaon " (J. A. S. 

 Beng. 1886, 125). 



Habits of Imago. — Mr. de Niceville says that he " always met with it in beds of 



