N ml PHALINJE. (Group LEMENITINA,) 
including the two marginal Innular lines on both wings. Hind-wing also with a 
narrow pinkish-white basal and a subbasal fascia, and a less-defined medial discal 
sinuous fascia. 
Female. Upperside as in male; markings the same, but in some examples 
slightly sullied yellowish-white. Underside as in male. Body and palpi above 
fuliginous-black; palpi and thorax beneath, forelegs, middle and hind femora 
greyish-white; abdomen beneath and middle and hind tibias and tarsi pale ochreous- 
white. 
Expanse, d 2^, ? 3 inches. 
Dry-season brood (Plate 289, fig. Id, e, f, g, $ ? ). 
Neptis Amboides , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p, 241, d $ . 
Smaller than wet-season brood. Male. Upperside. Ground-colour duller black. 
Forewing with the discoidal streak broader, the discal spots also broader and more 
compactly disposed. Hindiving with the discal band broader. Underside ground¬ 
colour somewhat paler and duller coloured; markings broad, as above, otherwise as 
in wet-season. 
Female. Upperside; ground-colour duller black than in wet-season, the 
markings sullied white. Underside as in male. 
Expanse, d 2 ^, $ 2-q, inches. 
Habitat. —Western Himalayas; Nepal. 
Note. — We have identified Hollar’s insect ( Sankara ) with that of Amba, from a 
coloured drawing of his type specimen in the Nat. History Museum at Vienna, 
kindly sent to us by Dr. Rogenhoffer. 
Distbibution. —We possess a male of the wet-season form taken in Kashmir by 
the late Capt. R. Bayne Reed, two females from Naini Tal, and both sexes from 
Nepal, taken by the late Genl. G. Ramsay; we have also the type specimens of the 
dry-season form (Amboides), the males from Ruttun Pir, Kashmir, taken by Capt. 
Reed, and the female from Kangra, taken by the Rev. J. H. Hocking. There are 
specimens from Simla, Kangra, and Almora, in the British Museum. Mr. J. H. 
Leech possesses specimens from Sultanpur, Kulu, taken by Mr. A. G. Young, and 
from Dana, taken in August by Mr. Mac Arthur. Mr. L. de Niceville records it as 
“ a common species in Simla ; specimens from Kulu Valley and Masuri are in the 
Indian Museum, Calcutta, and in Col. A. M. Lang’s collection, from Kunawur. Mrs. 
Deane took it in Chini in June ” (Butt. Ind. ii. 88 ). Mr. W. Doherty records it 
from the <e Kali and Sarsu Valleys, 2000 to 5000 feet elevation, Kumaon ” (J. A. S. 
Beug. 1886, 125). 
Habits op Imago. —Mr. de Niceville says that he (( always met with it in beds of 
