NYMPHALINZ:, (Group CHARAXINA.) 245 
Female. Upperside similar to male. Forewing with the white transverse band 
broader, anteriorly broken by a broad subcostal black streak, and with a broad 
black-speckled inner discal border extending to near the submedian vein ; the outer 
series of white spots large and lunular. Hindwing with the white upper discal band 
broader and extending to near the middle median yeinlet; the submarginal black 
macular band broader and with slender white lunular marks. Underside as in the 
male, but somewhat more olivescent in tint. Body dark brownish-ochreous ; palpi 
above black ; palpi beneath and pectus white; legs brownish-ochreous ; fore tarsi 
white ; antenne black ; eyes red. 
Expanse, ¢ 3,6, 2 4,2, to 4,5, inches. 
Hasirar.—Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Naga Hills. 
Distrisution.—‘* Common in Sikkim throughout the summer months at low 
elevations” (de Nicéville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 149). Specimens taken by the late 
Mr. Otto Méller in Sikkim in June and July are in Mr. W. Rothschild’s collection. 
It was also taken at Buxa in Bhotan by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon. Specimens from the 
Naga Hills are also in Mr. W. Rothschild’s collection. 
Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 181, fig. 1 is cra Mr. Butler’s 
type male of Khimalara, and figs. la, b, c, are from male and female identical with 
Felder’s types. 

HARIDRA KHASIANA (Plate 182, figs. 1, la, 32). 
Charaxes Khasianus, Butler, Lep. Exotica, p. 98, pl. 37, fig. 6, g 2 (1872). de Nicéville, Butt. of 
India, ete. ii. p. 293 (1886). 
Charaxes Pleistoanax (female only), Felder, Reise Novara ili. p. 443, 
Imaco.—Male. Similar to H. Pleistoanax. Upperside differs in the olivaceous- 
ochreous basal area and hindwing being paler. Forewing with the bluish-white 
discal band broader and extending diffusedly within the basal area beyond the 
sinuous black line, which latter is generally broadly defined ; submarginal series of 
spots small or lunulate. Hindwing with the white discal band also broader and 
extending diffusedly inwards more or less beyond the black sinuous line; sub- 
marginal black macular decreasing band with white lunate marks. Underside 
similar to H. Pleistoanax, but generally more ochreous. 
Female. Upperside similar to H. Pleistoanax, but with the basal areas muc 
paler, the abdominal margin of hindwing and its outer border also much paler. 
Forewing with the discal bluish-white band much broader, and also extending 
diffusedly inward more or less beyond the blackish-speckled virgula; the outer 
marginal series of spots white, large, and conspicuous. Hindwing with the white 
