NYMPHALINJE. (Group N YM THAI IN A .) 
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from the lower band. 1 Rindwing with the bands as in male. Underside as in the 
male. 
Expanse, $ 2^, 8 2^ inches. 
Dry-season brood (Plate 324, fig. 1, d, e, 1, f, g, $). 
Male. Smaller than in wet-season form. Upperside with all the bands as 
in wet-season form, but somewhat paler. Underside paler yellowish-ochreous ; 
tessellate marks the same but somewhat smaller ; the submarginal series of spots 
smaller and not conical, each being formed by an upper and lower short black line, 
the lower second and third only being slightly speckled with metallic greyish-blue 
scales ; marginal lower lunules and lunule at abdominal angle speckled with metallic 
greyish-blue scales. 
Female. Upperside with slightly paler bands than in male; all the bands 
similar. Forewing with the subapical band broader, its lower inner angle touching 
the discoidal; lower-discal band partly joined by a streak to the lower ends of both 
the discoidal and subapical band. Underside as in the male. 
Expanse, S 1^, 9 2 inches. 
Habitat. —N.W. Himalayas. 
Distribution. —We possess the type specimen, a dry-season male, taken in 
Kaschmir by the late Capt. It. Bayne Heed. A female from Kulu is in Col. 0. 
Swinhoe’s collection, and a female, also from Kulu, in Mr. P. Crowley’s collection. 
A male, taken at Kaleni, at 3900 feet elevation, in May, by Capt. McArthur, is in 
Mr. J. H. Leech’s collection. Mr. W. Doherty obtained it in the “ Pindari Valley, 
5000 to 8000 feet elevation, U.W. Kumaon ” (J. A. S. Bengal, 1886, 123). 
SYMBRENTHIA NIPHATOA. 
Wet-season form (Plate 325, fig. 1, la, <^,1, b, c, ? ). 
Symbventhm Niphanda, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1872, p. 559. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. 
p. 243 (1886). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside fulvescent-black; cilia alternated with white. 
Forewing with a yellowish-ochreous rather narrow band oxtending along lower half 
of the cell, including the median vein, and ending between the base of upper and 
middle median veinlets, its end being distinctly truncate, the upper edge irregularly 
waved, its lower edge even ; a subapical outwardly-oblique narrow irregular band 
extending to the costa, a small apical lunule, and a lower-discal inwardly-oblique 
narrow somewhat recurved band. Hindwing with a broader discal band narrowing 
to the costa, below which is a submarginal somewhat lunular band attenuating 
