NYMPHA LIN YE. (Group nympsalina.) 
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Dry-season form (Plate 319, tig. 1, b, c, d, £ $ ). 
Male and female. Upperside fulvous-yellow; markings as in wet-season form ; 
the black markings less sharply defined, the marginal bordering yellow dentate spots 
on the forewing less distinct, and the yellow lunules on the hind wing broad and 
continuous. Underside with the ground-colour dull yellowish-ochreous or pale 
brownish-ochreous, the markings dark oclireous-brown; comma-shaped mark 
prominent. 
Expanse, d 2, ? 2p- 0 inches. 
Habitat. —Western Himalayas; Kashmir, Kunawur, Kumaon. 
Distribution. —We possess specimens of the wet-season form from Thundiani, 
taken by Col. J. W. Yerbury in September; from Kashmir, taken by Major H. B. 
Hellard in August and September, and also both sexes of the dry-season form from 
the Simla Hills, Kunawur, taken by Capt. A. M. Lang, and from Kashmir, taken by 
Capt. Magee. Specimens from Thundiani are also in the collection of the British 
Museum and of Col. Swinhoe. Capt. A. M. Lang refers to this species under 
C-album, as “ occurring rarely in Kumaon, where he took it at several localities 
far apart, and of divers altitudes and climates. One fine specimen was taken on 
the bleak Hungrung Pass at about 15,000 feet elevation, while others were taken 
200 miles away on the lower well-wooded ranges of the Simla District ” (Ent. Mo. 
Mag. 1868, 34). Col. J. W, Yerbury took his specimens at (t Thundiani, a Hill 
Station near Abbottabad, at about 8700 feet elevation, in August and September. 
It affects the Yarrow and Ragwort ” (Ann. Hat. Hist, 1888, 139). Mr, W. Doherty 
probably refers to this species, under C-album, as being taken by him at Khati, 
N.W. Kumaon, at 8000 feet elevation” (J. A. S, Beng, 1890, 122), Mr, J. H, Leech 
has it from Sultunpur, Kulu, taken by Capt, Graham Young, 
POLYGONTA AGNICULA. 
Grapta Agnicula, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 559 (only). 
Nymphalis Agnicula , Kirby, Catal. D. Lep. Suppl. p. 733 (1877). 
Vanessa C-album, var. tibetana, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 363, pi. 10, fig. 1, 
Vanessa C-album (part), de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 237 (1886), 
Wet-season form (Plate 319, fig. 2, 2a, <£). 
Male and female. Upperside bright clear fulvous-red. Forewing with pro¬ 
minent black markings disposed as in Kashmir C-album , the two cell-spots being 
well-separated and small, the marginal black band slightly speckled outwardly with 
fulvous-grey scales, the inner row of yellow dentate spots, seen in C-album and 
cognata , are absent. Hindwing with three black discal spots, the two lower being 
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