NYMPHALIN^. (Group NT Ml-RALiyA.) 163 



upper and outn-ardly-oblique lower fasciae, and more or less distinct olive-brown 

 rib-line, and sometimes blotched with fungoid patches of black and olive-brown 

 scales, or the ground-colour is pale olivescent ochreous-brown, blotched with pale 

 ochreous patches speckled with black scales. Body and palpi above pale greyish- 

 blue, beneath and legs pale greyish-ochreous ; antenna black above, tip reddish- 

 ochreous, shaft beneath whitish-ochreous. 



Female. Upperside as in male, the basal areas and outer borders paler. 

 Underside as in male ; the ground-colour either paler greyish-ochreous or pale 

 olivescent-ochreous, with or without fungoid patches. 



Expanse, (j 4, ? 4j-o inches. 



Wet-season form (Plate 337, fig. 1, d, e, ^). 

 Kallima Boisduvali, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. (1879), p. 12. 



Male and female. Smaller than in dry-season form. Apex of forewing blunt- 

 pointed. Male. Upperside with the fulvous baud narrower, its iuner-edge more 

 broadly black bordered and the hyaline spot somewhat smaller and narrower, the 

 subapical white spot also smaller ; the basal areas of both wings much darker blue ; 

 the outer borders also darker and of a dusky fulvescent-brown. Underside 

 ochreous-brown or violescent ochreous-brown, numerously covered with dark brown 

 speckles and strigee ; rib-line prominent, dark olive-brown with pale inner edge ; 

 ordinary inwardly-oblique basal and the outer fasciee and submarginal sinuous line 

 more or less prominent ; the discal obscurely-defined ocelli on hindwing with black 

 central dot. 



Female. Upper and underside as in the male, but somewhat paler. 



Expanse, 6 ^^o> ^ ^u) inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas ; Kashmir. 



DiSTEiBDTiON AND Habits. — " This is the common form of the genus occurring 

 in the Western Himalayas, and distinguished from the Eastern form (A'. Innchis) 

 by its much paler blue coloration on the upperside" (de Niceville, I.e. 261). Capt. 

 A. M. Lang says " it appears only on the plaiuswards spurs of the Himalaya. I 

 have taken this butterfly at Kasauli and Subhatoo, two military stations between 

 Simla and the Plains, but no further into the mountains" (MS. Notes). " It has a 

 very rapid, irregular pitching flight, now high over the tree tops — then low. It is 

 fond of the shelter of large trees, near the roots of which it suddenly pitches, and 

 when settled you may hunt long to see it, however cai'efuUy you have watched it 

 settle, so perfectly does it resemble a dead leaf" (id. Eat. Mo. Mag. 1804, 181). 

 The Rev, J. H. Hocking, in his " Butterflies of the Kangra District," states that it 

 is " single brooded in July. Flies about till the cold weather in November, and then 

 hibernates, and comes out again in April. Taken at sugar in April " (P. Z. S. 1882, 



