TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 15873 SUBJECT: GRB 140219A: Xuyi and Nanshan upper limits DATE: 14/02/21 17:51:56 GMT FROM: Dong Xu at DARK/NBI D. Xu (DARK/NBI), D.-M. Wei, H.-B. Zhao, Y. Xia (PMO), C.-H. Bai, X. Zhang, H.-B. Niu, A. Esamdin, L. Ma (XAO), Y. Osorio (NOT) report on behalf of a large collaboration: We observed the whole IPN field and its surrounding region of GRB 140219A (Hurley et al., GCN 15864). The first epoch was done at ~15:40 UT on 2014-02-20 using the 1m telescope located at Xuyi, Jiangsu, China, equipped with a 3x3 deg^2 CCD camera. The second epoch was done at ~17:50 UT on 2014-02-20 using the 1m telescope located at Nanshan, Xinjiang, China, equipped with a 1.2x1.2 deg^2 CCD camera. For both epochs, a series of R-band 120s exposures were obtained. The depths of the images of the two epochs are largely comparable and it has R~19 mag. Within the IPN field, we found two relatively bright sources, but they can be ruled out to be an afterglow by cross checking the Xuyi, Nanshan, and DSS images. A third epoch was done at the 2.5m Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) and the NOT images confirm the above ruling-out. Therefore, assuming GRB 140219A is a conventional cosmological burst happening within the IPN field, its afterglow would be fainter than R~19 mag at T~20 hrs post-burst, which is a possible case according to previous GRB follow-ups. Inspection of some surrounding region of the IPN field also leads to no credible afterglow candidate detection. For the reported two Swift/XRT sources in the central part of the IPN field (Mangano et al., GCN 15872), S2 is not present in the Xuyi and Nanshan images as well, while S1 is a known source.