NYMPHALINjli. (uroup argynnina.) 213 



formiug a blackish apical border. Eindwing crossed by a blackish slender inner- 

 discal sinuous line bordered outwardly at the costal end by a broad white patch ; a 

 discal row of six black rounded spots, one in each interspace except the discoidal ; 

 followed by two submarginal engrailed lines, and a less defined marginal nearly 

 straight line. Underside. Both wings much paler and duller ochreous-yellow ; all 

 the mai'kings, as on upperside, much obliterated. Both wings with a palely defined 

 subbasal streak ; the inner-discal sinuous line broadly outwardly-bordered by a 

 lilacine-whitish fascia having a straight even outer edge, the inner sinuous edge being 

 also bordered by a more or less indistincth' defined parallel sinuously-lunular fascia 

 of darker ochreous than the basal ground-colour ; the indistinct submarginal and 

 marginal lunular lines inwardly-bordered by whitish lunules ; discal black spots on 

 hindwing smaller than on upper.side ; apical lunules whitish. Bodij and palpi above 

 olivesceut-ochreous ; beneath and legs pale ochreous ; antennas black. 



Female. Upperside olivescent brownish-fulvous or darker fulvous-brown ; 

 markings as in male, but broader and more sharply defined ; the inner-discal sinuous 

 line outwardly bordered, and the submarginal lines interspaced with dull white or 

 paler ochreous than the ground-colour. Underside pale dull ochreous, ^jaler than in 

 male, washed with pale violaceous ; markings the same, those on the outer border 

 more obscure, the inner more distinct. 



Expanse, 3 ? 3/o to 3/\, inches. 



Dry-season form (Plate 3G-4, fig. 1, d, e, (^ ?). 

 Cirrochroa Jiraria, Swinhoe, Trans. Eutoin. Soc. Loud. 1893, p. 2S1. 



Male. Smaller than wet-season form. Upperside. Ground-colour slightly paler ; 

 markings similar, but either more or less ill-defined, or on the forewing, the discal 

 sinuous line is absent or slightly apparent at costal end, and on the hindwing the 

 outer submarginal and marginal line is obsolescent. Underside paler than in wet- 

 season form ; all the markings obscure or obsolescent ; the discal transverse fascia 

 of the same tint as the ground-colour, or very slightly paler. 



Female. Upperside of a uniformly paler olivescent brownish-fulvous than in 

 wet-season form. Underside also uniformly paler than in wet-season form ; the 

 discal transverse fascia of the same tint as the ground-colour. 



Expanse, S 2^^^ to 3, ? Sj^o inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Upper Assam ; Cachar ; Silhet ; Khasia and Naga 

 Hills. 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — " This is one of the commonest species of the genus. It is met 

 with in Sikkim up to about 6000 feet elevation, from April to December, and occurs 

 equally common in the Hills to the Eastwards as far as Sibsagar m Upper Assam " 

 (de Niceville, I.e.). 



