BUTTERFLIES FROM THE INDO-MALAYAN REGION. 347 



by four silvery spots. Hindwing with the ground-colour much more 

 yellow than in the forewing, the base bearing large blotches of rich 

 castaneous, with prominent discal and marginal bands of the same 

 colour ; with the following silvery spots :— a small one placed on the 

 precostal nervure, one tilling the base of the costal interspace, and a 

 large one placed obliquely across its middle ; a small round spot in 

 the middle of the cell, a large elongated one filling its outer end, 

 joined to another elongated spot in the discoidal interspace 

 reaching to the outer edge of the discal rich castaneous band, this 

 latter bears on its outer edge a series of seven more or less wedge- 

 shaped spots, the uppermost of which in the costal interspace is 

 much the largest ; an elongated narrow silvery streak in the sub- 

 median interspace, which springs from the base of the wing and ends 

 on the inner edge of the rich castaneous discal band, the streak is quite 

 separated. or broken into two portions at about its middle ; there is a 

 second narrow streak in the internal interspace, which commences 

 opposite the point where the streak in the submedian interspace is 

 broken and reaches the abdominal margin ; a very indistinct some- 

 what ocellular series of spots placed in the middle of the band of the 

 ground-colour between the discal and marginal rich castaneous bands ; 

 the latter bearing a prominent series of more or less oval silvery spots, 

 one in each interspace. Cilia of both wings on the upperside pale 

 fulvous, of the forewing on the underside oil the apical half of the 

 wing pale fulvous alternated with darker, on the hindwing pale 

 fulvous throughout. Female. Upperside, both u-ings darker fulvous 

 than in the male, all the black spots larger, the black basal irroration 

 much more extensive, completely filling the sutural area of the fore- 

 wing, the outer margin broadly black, bearing a series of very pale 

 yellow (almost whitish) spots. Underside, forewing as in the male, 

 but all the markings more prominent. Hindwing with the ground- 

 colour more of a greenish tinge, the rich castaneous bands and the 

 silvery spots more prominent. Cilia very pale yellowish, almost 

 white, on the forewing prominently, on the hindwing obscurely 

 alternated with darker. 



Very close to the Argynnis altissima of Elwes,* ten specimens 



• Proc. Zool. Soc Lond., 1882, p. 403, pi. sxv, fig. 8, ? male. In Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., 1889, p. 539, Mr. Elwes refers to this figure as taken from a male. 



