NYMFHALIN^. (Group NTMPHALINA.) 165 



ocelli, and prominent pale edged rib-line^ or deep browQish-ochreous with darker 

 fasciae, and obscure greyish ocelli. 



Expanse, c? S^^o to Z^q, ? 3i^o to 4 inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



Distribution. — We possess the type specimens of both sexes of the dry-season 

 form (Bnckleyi), from the Himalayas, taken by the late Col. F. Buckley and Capt. 

 T. Hutton, and also of the wet-season form (Euttoni), from Masuri, from the same 

 collections. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 338, figs. 1, la, b, c, are from the 

 male and female types of Buckleyi — the dry-season form ; and those on Plate 339, 

 figs. 1, la, b, c, from the male and female types of Huttoiii — the wet-season form ; 

 and fig. 1, d, from the type of Atkinsoni. 



KALLIMA INACHUS. 



Dry -season form (Plate 340, fig. 1, la, ^■, lb, c, ? ). 



Paphia Inachus, Boisduval, in Crochard's Edit. Cuv. Reg. Anim. Ins. ii. pi. 139, fig. 3, ? (1836). 

 Kallima Inachis, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 11. do Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii p. 261 

 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside ; basal areas dark bright glossy violet-blue ; apex of 

 forewing acutely pointed. Forewing with the apical area violet-blue-black ; a broad 

 outwardly-oblique discal fulvous band extending from the costa to outer margin, 

 where it is thickly speckled with dark brown short strig^, its outer-edge somewhat 

 waved, its inner-edge sinuous and black bordered from the subcostal to below the 

 middle median, where it is contiguous to a black-boi'dered large oval hyaline white 

 spot ; outer margin traversed by a submarginal sinuous black line ; a small white 

 dentate subapical spot. Hindwing with the outer area somewhat fulvescent and 

 thickly speckled with minute dark violet-brown strigEe, traversed by a submarginal 

 sinuous black line, and an outer-discal curved series of more or less indistinct darker 

 ocelloid patches centred with a black dot, placed in the interspaces from the subcostal 

 to lower median veinlet. Underside. Ground-colour various shades of violescent 

 ochreous-brown, brownish-ochreous, or violescent greyish-brown, more or less 

 sparsely speckled with black scales; a transverse discal pale edged olive-brown 

 rib-line extending from apex of forewing to the tail on hindwing ; hyaline spot, and 

 the discal normal ocelloid spots on hindwing partly ringed with yellowish-ochreous 

 and black scales ; submarginal line olive-brown, less sinuous on the hindwing ; 

 basal and outer oblique normal diffused-fascijB, or lines, olive-brown. Body and 

 palpi above violescent-blue, beneath and legs pale ochreous-brown. 



