NYMPHALIN^E. (Gtoap srupjiALiyA.) 119 



from the lower band. Ilindwinc] with the bands as in male. Underside as in the 

 male. 



Expanse, S 2^i^, S 2^^ inches. 



Bry-season hmod (Plate 324, fig. 1, d, e, ^J, 1, f, g, $ ). 



Male. Smaller than in wet-season form. Upperside with all the bands as 

 in wet-season form, but somewhat paler. Underside paler yellowish-ochreous ; 

 tessellate marks the same but somewhat smaller ; the submarginal series of spots 

 smaller and not conical, each being formed by an upper and lower short black line, 

 the lower second and third only being slightly speckled with metallic greyish-blue 

 scales ; marginal lower lunules and lunule at abdominal angle speckled with metallic 

 greyish-blue scales. 



Female. Upperside with slightly paler bands than in male ; all the bands 

 similar. Forewiug with the subapical band broader, its lower inner angle touching 

 the discoidal ; lower-discal band partly joined by a streak to the lower ends of both 

 the discoidal and subapical band. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, (S I^-q, 9 2 inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas. 



DiSTETBDTiON. — We possess the type specimen, a dry-season male, taken in 

 Kaschmir by the late Capt. R. Bayne Reed. A female from Kulu is in Col. C. 

 Swinhoe's collection, and a female, also from Kulu, in Mr. P. Crowley's collection. 

 A male, taken at Kaleni, at 3900 feet elevation, in May, by Capt. McArtluir, is in 

 Mr. J. H. Leech's collection. Mr. W. Doherty obtained it in the " Pindari Valley, 

 6000 to 8000 feet elevation, N.W. Kumaon " (J. A. S. Bengal, 1886, 123). 



SYMBRENTHIA NIPHANDA. 



Wet-season furm (Plate 325, fig. 1, \a,(^,l, b, c, ? ). 



Si/mbrenfhia Niphanda, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 559. de NiceVille, Butt, of India, etc., ii. 

 p. 2-13 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside fulvescent-black ; cilia alternated with white. 

 Fore wing with a yellowish-ochreous rather narrow band extending along lower half 

 of the cell, including the median vein, and ending between the base of upper and 

 middle median veinlets, its end being distinctly truncate, the upper edge irregularly 

 waved, its lower edge even ; a subapical outwardly-oblique narrow irregular band 

 extending to the costa, a small apical lunule, and a lower-discal inwardly-oblique 

 narrow somewhat recurved band. Hindwing with a broader discal band narrowing 

 to the costa, below which is a submarginal somewhat lunuhir band attenuating 



