310 NYMPH ALLELE. 



Exp. $ $ 67-86 rurn. (2-68-3-4"). 



Hah. The Himalayas, Mussooree to Sikhiui ; Assam ; Upper 

 Burma. 



The dry-season form has the ground-colour both on the upper 

 and under sides duller, the markings all very much broader and 

 in the $ of a paler and duller yellow. 



326. Pantoporia selenophora, Kollar (Liminitis), HugeVs Kaschmir, 

 iv, pt. 2, 1844, p. 426, pi. 7, figs. 1, 2, tf ; de N. (Athyma) 

 Butt, Ind. ii ? 1886, p. 176 ; Davidson, Bell 8f Aitken, Jour. Bomb. 

 N. H. Soc. x, pt. ii, 1896, p. 254 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, 

 p. 202, pi. 267, figs. 1, la-le, J $ . 



<3 . Upperside black. Fore wing : discoidal streak deep red, 

 twice divided, the apical portion dusky white ; three elongate oval 

 white spots in the interspaces beyond ; a distinct white band, 

 variable in width, from dorsum to interspace 3 ; an obscure inner 

 subterminal line of trausverse whitish marks, and a still more 

 obscure outer subterminal pale line. Hind wing with the broad 

 white discal band of the fore wing continued across to vein 1, a 

 postdiscal narrow diffuse pale macular band, and a subterminal 

 pale line ; abdominal fold dusky grey ; cilia of both fore and hind 

 wings black, alternated with white. Underside bright chestnut- 

 red; the markings as on the upperside but all white, on the 

 terminal portions of the wings diffuse ; discoidal streak in fore 

 Aving white, diffuse, more broadly divided ; interspace 8 white 

 at base, with a dark chestnut-red loop below it in interspace 7 

 crossing into the cellular area; very dark postdiscal blotches in 

 interspaces 1 a, 1 to 3 on fore wing ; and a series of very dark 

 chestnut-red marks between discal and postdiscal bands on the hind 

 wing ; dorsal margin of hind wing broadly blue. Antennae, head, 

 thorax and abdomen very dark brown ; beneath, the palpi, thorax 

 and abdomen white faintly tinged with blue. — $ . Upperside velvety 

 brownish black with white and pale markings. Fore wing : the 

 discoidal streak clavate, twice divided, a large elongate triangular 

 spot beyond apex of cell ; a macular discal band of four large spots 

 inclined outwards from dorsum, and three obliquely placed spots 

 from beyond the middle of the costa, the lowest spot of these 

 minute, the next two large, elongate, with a very slender short 

 streak above them on the costa ; an inner subterminal series . of 

 transverse spots and an outer subterminal pale incomplete line. 

 Hind wing : the subbasal broad band widening towards costa ; a 

 postdiscal series of large, inwardly bluntly conical spots and a broad 

 subterminal pale line. Underside as in the c? , but the white 

 markings broader, the ground-colour not so bright. Antennae, 

 thorax and abdomen as in the tf , but the abdomen with a white 

 transverse band at base. 



Exp. S $ 66-72 mm. (2-6-2-83"). 



Hob. The Himalayas ; Southern India, the Nilgiris, Kanara and 

 Mysore; Assam ; Burma and Northern Tenasserim. 



