NYMPHALfN^E. (Oroup asoynnina.) 251 



nieclial-discal row of very small round spots, followed by a submarginal ro^Y of black 

 confluent dentate spots merging into the marginal band and traversed by a row of 

 decreasing small wliite spots, tlie upper ones of which are rounded, the lower 

 lunnlar and slightly fulvescent ; the interspaces between the subapical costal patch 

 and the upper modial-discal spots also white. Hindwiiig with an ordinary black 

 inner-discal angulated continuous series of narrow lunnlar spots, the upper ones 

 being well separated from the black basal area ; a curved medial-discal row of small 

 rounded spots, followed by a black marginal band traversed by a row of prominent 

 white spots, the upper three of which are longitudinally-oval, the second and third 

 being the longest, the fourth round, the three lower broken and somewhat hastate 

 in shape. Underside. Foreicing pale fulvous, the costa gre}^ ; basal and discal 

 black markings, as above, but much less defined ; the discocellular streak grey- 

 centred ; subapical triangular spots and submarginal spots silvery greyish-white, 

 the npper of the latter longitudinally-oval, the lower somewhat hastate in shape. 

 Hindwing. Ground-colour olive-yellow, the basal, medial-discal, and outer marginal 

 interspaces more or less castaneous and irrorated with black scales ; two small 

 silvery-greyish white upper basal spots, another in middle of the cell, an oblique 

 streak at end of cell, an inner-discal irregular series of spots of which the upper one 

 is placed in the costal interspace and is obliquely elongated, the next two very 

 small, the next much elongated and joined to the cell-streak, the next two in the 

 median interspaces small, a lengthened narroAV streak in the submedian and another 

 in the internal interspace; beyond is a medial-discal carved row of spots, the two 

 upper being the largest, the next small, the three next placed in the median and 

 submedian interspaces being dentate ; followed by an outer-discal row of very small 

 spots, which are also black speckled ; and then a marginal row of longitudinally- 

 narrow oval spots ; all these silvery spots are slightly black-edged. Bodij blackish, 

 clothed with fulvous hairs; palpi above fulvous, clothed with blackish hairs, beneath 

 greyish ; body beneath greyish ; legs fulvous ; femora grey beneath ; autenme 

 black above, beneath and tip fulvous. 



Expanse, 1 j^q to 1 ^^ inch. 



Haeitat. — Chumbi, Tibetan frontier of Sikkim ; Bhotan. 



DisTEiEUTKiN. — " Only found in the high i^anges on the eastern frontier of 

 Sikkim, and in Bhotau ; the exact locality and elevation unknown, as it has never 

 been taken by a European. Those which I have received recently from Bhotan are 

 somewhat larger than the type, but do not vary except in size " (IJ. J. Ehves, Trans. 

 Ent. 8oc. 1888, 350). "Very rare; has only, I believe, been obtained on two 

 occasions by Mr. Elwes' native collectors in Native Sikkim at an even higher 

 elevation than that at which .1. gcmmata was found" (L. de Niceville, Sikkim Gaz. 

 1894, 139). 



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