NYMPHALINJ2. (Group NYMPHALINA.) 
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Tamale. Upperside with slightly paler bands than in male. Forewing with the 
discoidal band somewhat narrower, the other bands slightly broader, the snbapical 
band reaching the costa, and with two very small apical spots above its end. 
Rindiving with both bands somewhat narrower than in male. Underside as in the 
male. 
Expanse, S 1^, $ 2 inches. 
Dry-season form (Plate 323, fig. 1, d, e, <$). 
S ymbrenthia Brabirct , Moore, Proc, Zool. Soe. 1872, p. 558. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. 
p. 244 (1886). 
Male. Upperside duller fulvescent-black and the bands paler than in wet-season 
form. Both wings with very broad irregularly-edged bands, broader than in 
dry-season 8, Gotanda; the discoidal band on forewing diffused hindward below 
base of the cell. Underside bright ochreous-yellow ; tessellated marks somewhat 
narrower and less perfectly formed than in the wet-season form; the submarginal 
series of spots on hind wing not conically defined, each being formed by an upper 
and lower short lunate line, the centres being very sparsely metallic speckled. 
Expanse, lf 0 inch. 
Habitat. —Western Himalayas. 
Distribution. —We possess the type specimen ( Asthala ), the wet-season form, 
taken in Kaschmir by Capt. B. Bayne Beed, and also that of the dry-season form 
( Brabira ). Mr. P. W. Mackinnon says, it is “rather rare in Masuri, but flies from 
April to September. It occurs also in the Tehri Garhwal and the Upper Ganges 
Valley” (J. Bombay 1ST. H. Soc. 1898, 876). Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. S. Bengal, 
1886, 122) records it from the “Pindari Valley, N.W, Kumaon, at 7000 feet 
elevation.” 
Note. — Brabira being the oldest name, takes precedence of that given to the 
wet-season form. We have not seen a female of the dry-season form. 
SYMBRENTHIA SIVOKANA. 
Wet-season form (Plate 323, fig. 2, 2a, ; 2b, $ )» 
Imago. —Male. Upperside rich dark fulvescent-black; the bands rich dark 
fulvous, similar to those in wet-season S. Asthala ; the bands on forewing somewhat 
shorter. Underside light yellow with defined intervening patches of ochreous-yellow 
between the markings; both wings with all the markings very slender. Rindwing 
with the submarginal row of conical spots very small and having pale yellow centres, 
their inner-edge only being slightly speckled with bluish-grey scales ; the lower 
