SATYRIN Zi. 23 
female, from Kashgar, are in the British Museum collection, and also in that 
of Mr. H. Grose-Smith. 
The illustrations of this species on our Plate 98, fig. 3, represent a male from 
Skoro La, kindly lent by Mr. L. de Nicéville, and fig. 3a the female, reproduced 
from Major Marshall’s figure above referred to. 
Genus PHILARETA. 
Mate.—Forewing much broader, shorter, and less triangular, than in typical 
Chazara (0. Briseis) ; costa much arched before the end, exterior margin almost 
erect; cell much shorter; glandular patch not present. Hindwing large, very broad, 
exterior margin scalloped, cell much shorter. Palpi clothed with shorter hairs 
in front, apex more pointed. Antenna with a stouter, longer, flat, more truncate-tipt 
spatular club. Hyes naked. Type. P. Hanifa. 
PHILARETA PERSEPHONE. 
Papilio Persephone, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. I. pl. 115, figs. 589-90, et pl. 140, figs. 710-11 (1805). 
Hipparchia Persephone, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit, Mus. p. 55 (1868). 
Papilio Anthe, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. I. p. 169 (1807). 
Satyrus Anthe, Boisduval, Icones, pl. 40, figs. 3, 4 (1832), 2. 
Hipparchia Anthe, Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt of India, ete. i. p. 192 (1883). 
Imaco.—Male and female. Upperside dusky-brown, cinereous-brown basally. 
Ciha alternated with white. Morewing with an outer-discal interrupted band composed 
of whitish spots,the upper portion being elongated and divided in its middle by a square 
black spot, and its inner end angled upward to the costa, the next portion, between 
the upper medians, shorter and curved on its upper edge, the next longer and 
divided in its middle by a round black spot, the two lower portions shorter. Hindwing 
crossed by a medial-discal curved sinuous whitish band, the inner edge sharply 
defined. Underside cinereous. Jorewing with the costal and outer border mottled 
with blackish and brown strigez, the middle of the wing and macular band pale 
ochreous, the latter almost white and laterally defined by narrow black edging ; 
the two black spots distinct; posterior border dusky. Hindwing densely mottled 
with black and brown strigz; a more or less distinct angulated transverse sub- 
basal and a discal line, and a lunular submarginal line, the two latter with pale 
cinereous outer border. Body beneath, palpi, and legs brownish-cinereous ; antennal 
club blackish. 
Expanse, ¢ 22 to 23, 2 22 to 2 inches. 
Hasrrat.—S. Russia; Persia; 8. Afghanistan. 
Distrieu110n.— Within our limits, this species has been taken in the neigh- 
