NYMPHALINjE. (Croup NYMFBALINA.) 117 



Fomale. Upperside with slightly paler bands than in male. Fore wing with the 

 discoidal band somewhat narrower, the other bands slightly broader, the subapical 

 band reaching the costa, and with two very small apical spots above its end. 

 Hindwinf) with both bands somewhat narrower than in male. Underside as in the 

 male. 



Expanse, c? \^q, ? 2 inches. 



Dry-season furni (Plate 323, fig. 1, d, e, S)- 



Symbre7it/na Brahira, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 1872, p. 558. Je Niceville, Butt, of Imlia, etc., ii. 

 p. 244 (18S6). 



Male. Upperside duller fulvescent-black and the band.s paler than in wef-season 

 form. Both wings with very broad irregularly-edged bands, broader than in 

 dry-season S. Gotaiala; the discoidal band on forewing diffused hindward below 

 base of the cell. Underside bright ochreous-yellow ; tessellated marks somewhat 

 narrower and less perfectly formed than in the ioet-season form ; the submarginal 

 series of spots on hindwing not conically defined, each being formed by an upper 

 and lower short lunate line, the centres being very sparsely metallic sjieckled. 



Expanse, (? If^ inch. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



DiSTRiBDTiON. — We possess the type specimen (Asthala), the wet-season form, 

 taken in Kaschmir by Capt. R. Bayue Reed, and also that of the dry-season form 

 {^Brahira). Mr. P. W. Mackinnon says, it is " rather rare in Masuri, but flies from 

 April to September. It occurs also in the Tehri Garhwal and the Upper Ganges 

 Valley " (,J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1898, 376). Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. S. Bengal, 

 1886, 122) records it from the " Piudari Valley, N.W. Kumaon, at 7000 feet 

 elevation." 



Note. — Brahira being the oldest name, takes precedence of that given to the 

 wet-season form. We have not seen a female of the dry-season form. 



SYMBRENTHIA SIVOKANA. 



Wet-season form (Plate 323, fig. 2, 2a, <^ ; 2b, ? ). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich dark fulvescent-black ; the bands rich dark 

 fulvous, similar to those in wet-season 8. Asthala ; the bands on forewing somewhat 

 shorter. Underside light yellow with defined intervening patches of ochreous-yellow 

 between the markings ; both wings with all the markings very slender. Hindwiiuj 

 with the submarginal row of conical spots very small and having pale yellow centres, 

 their inner-edge only being slightly speckled with bluish-grey scales ; the lower 



