NYMPHALIN^K (Group augtxxixa.) 229 



basal, two subbasal aud au iuner-discal, siuuous bands, tlieir upper ends being broad 

 and their lower very irregularly zigzag and narrow, followed by a similar silvery-wbite 

 medial-discal sinuous broad continuous band, then a slender submarginal sinuous line 

 and marginal baud traversed by a fine black line, a similar black line along the 

 margin ; between the medial-discal baud and submarginal sinuous line is a series of 

 very obscure dusky speckled spots with ochreous centres. Bodji and head above 

 thickly clothed with fulvous hairs ; palpi above fulvous, beneath greyish-white, tip 

 black ; legs fulvous, femora beneath greyish- white ; antennae black above, reddish 

 beneath, tip red. 



Female. Upperside. Ground-colour duller than in male, being of a more dusky 

 ochreous instead of rich fulvous ; black markings the same, but broader, except that 

 there are no raised scales on the medians and submediau ; the forewiug also having 

 a very small black speckled spot below the cell in the submedian interspace, and au 

 outer spot below the submediau ; the hindwing also having the olivescent bluish- 

 grey outer area extending more ijroadly inward on the disc and up the anterior 

 border. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, c? Oi-q to -Sh). ? ^h to 4 inches. 



Habitat. — Eastern Himalayas ; Xepal ; Sikkim ; Assam ; Khasias ; Xaga 

 Hills ; Upper Burma; AY. aud C. China. 



DiSTKlBUTiON. — " Occurs in Nepal, Sikkim, Shilloug, tlie Khasia Hills, aud 

 Manipur, and it was obtained by the Yunan Expedition " (de Xiceville, Butt. India, ii. 

 133). Mr. W. Doherty took it in the Naga Hills, oOOO to 8000 feet elevation, 

 in July and August. In Sikkim it "occurs commonly at Tonglo, 9000 to 12,000 

 feet elevation, about Midsummer" (/'/. Sikkim Gaz. 1894, 139). "Mr. Otto MOller 

 notes the occurrence of this species in Sikkim at 300O to 4000 feet elevation, but I 

 have only seen it rarely on Tonglo and the Siugalelah Range in open tlowerj^ places 

 in the forest, where it settled on flower-heads, at 9000 to 12,000 feet. It occurs 

 from Jane to October " (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 349). Dr. A". Mauders 

 obtained specimens at '• Bernardmyo, 7000 feet elevation, Shan States, Burma " (Tr. 

 Ent. Soc. 1890, 523). It also- occurs in Western, Centi'al and Eastern China. 

 Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N"., obtained it at Hong Kong (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1S95, 450). 



DRYAS SAKONTALA. (Phte 372, fig. 2, 2a, (J ? ). 

 Argynnis Sakontala, Kollar, Hiigel's KasclimLr, iv. pt. 2, p. 139, pi. 12, S ? (184-4). 



Imago. — Smallei- than typical Childreni. Male and female. Upperside much 

 paler, and of an olivescent yellowish-ochreous colour ; black markings similar 

 but less promiueut ; the olivescent bluish-grey lower border of the hindwing more 

 -restricted to the margiu, especially in the male. Underside similar to Ohthlreni. 



