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NYMPHALID^. 
are dated July-October, and the opalina specimens, April and May. It 
would appear, then, that in the North-western Himalayas the typical form 
only occurs, and in Western China, where hundreds of examples were captured 
in June and July, the orientalis form alone is found ; whilst in Sikkim both 
forms occur, which is suggestive of the species being seasonally dimorphic in 
that district. Alpheraky is inclined to think that orientalis is separable from 
opalina by the contour of the wings, but examination of a large number of 
specimens Avill convince one that in dealing with this species the outline of 
the wing is not a trustworthy character. 
Var. COnstricta, Alpheraky. " Var. minor, obscurior, alis posticis margine anali longiore, 
inaculis fasciisque albis angustioribus, striga longitudinali punctisque cellulse anticarum albis 
evanesceutibus. c? 47 millim." {Alpheral-y, I. c.) 
One male taken on the 20th of August, near Choui-tchin-pou. M. Alphe- 
raky considers the specimen described above to be representative of a new 
local race of A. opalina. 1 have received exactly similar specimens from 
various localities in Western China. In my opinion these are simply small 
examples of A. opalina, var. orientalis, and I may add that this kind of 
aberration is of frequent occurrence in many species of Rhopalocera from 
Western China. 
I have one female specimen, taken by a native collector in the Province of 
Kwei-chow, Avhich exhibits the following aberrant characters : — a long Avhite 
dash above the terminal spot of the discal streak of primaries, distinct on both 
surfaces ; ground-colour of under surface much smeared and irregularly 
blotched with black. 
Athyma jina. 
Athymujina, Mooro, Ilorsficld & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 172, \>\. v. a. fig. 3 
(1H57); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1858, p. 18; de Niceville, Butt. Iiid. ii. p. 109 
(188G). 
" Male. Uppersido smoky brown ; markings creamy white. Pore wing with the discoidal 
streak entire, long, broad, and thickening to the extremity ; a series of seven spots from 
subcostal vein curving outwards to middle of posterior margin, the first being small, second 
larger, broader, third narrow, fourth small, fifth larger, oval, sixth iho largest, somewhat 
sfjuare and indented at the sides, seventh narrow, elongated, triangular; a submarginal row 
of rather indistinct spots, those on the apex broadest. Hind wing with inner band some- 
what narrow ; out(!r l)aiid coiii])osod of broad lunulalcd spots ; baiul across l)aso of abdomen 
whitish. Underside l)rilliaiit fernij;iiious, jjostciior luargin of fore wing blackish ; markings 
the same as above, but the fore wing witii an additional spot to the curved row on costal 
