24 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
bourhood of Kandahar by Colonel C. Swinhoe, who obtained a single “ female at 
Chaman on the 14th May, 1880” (Ann. N. H. 1882, 206). This specimen has been 
under our examination for verification. 
Genus NYTHA. 
Nytha, Billberg, Enum. Ins. p. 77 (1820). Scudder, Amer. Acad, A. and Sci. Boston, 1875, p. 231. 
Hipparchia, Butler, Ent. Mo, Mag. 1868, p. 194; Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 50 (1868), nec Fabricius. 
Imaco.—Male. Wings large, broad. Forewing triangular ; costa arched, apex 
obtuse, exterior margin oblique, posterior margin short; costal and median vein 
swollen at the base; crossed by a broad medial-discal inwardly-oblique glandular 
patch, which also extends within lower part of the cell to its end only, and is densely 
clothed with raised very long slender serrate-tipt scales, and numerous interspersed 
long very slender attenuated androconia with truncate base and tasselled-tip ; cell 
very long, rather broad. Hindwing very broad, exterior margin convex, sharply 
scalloped; abdominal margin very long; cell long; discocellular much recurved, 
very oblique. Palpi densely clothed to tip. Antenne long, slender, with short broad 
spatular club. Eyes naked. 
Type.—N. Hermione. 
NYTHA PARISATIS (Plate 98, figs. 4, 4a, 3 2). 
Satyrus Purisatis, Kollar, Ins. Fauna 8. Persia, p. 11 (1849) ; id. Denkschr. Akad. Wien. Math. 
Nat. Cl. 1, p. 52 (1850). Staudinger, in Romanoff’s Mem. Lep. 1890, p. 483. 
Hipparchia Parisatis, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 58 (1868). Marshall and de Nicéville 
Butt. of India, ete. i. p. 184, pl. xvi. fig. 47 9 (1883). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside deep dusky-brown, with an olivescent gloss in some 
lights. Cilia greyish-white, slightly alternated with dark brown at end of the 
veins, more strongly on the hindwing. Forewing with the costal edge from near the 
base more or less thickly studded with greyish-white scales, forming a narrow bor- 
dering fascia, which is dilated before the apex, and the exterior margin posteriorly 
also studded with greyish-white scales forming a narrow band intersected by the 
brown veins; a broad dusky-black oblique inner-discal glandular fascia, which is 
clothed with densely-packed very long narrow foliate serrate-tipt scales, very 
numerously interspersed with long androconia with bulbous base, hair-like end and 
feather-tip ; an indistinctly-defined subapical and a lower outer-discal black spot, the 
upper one white-pupilled, and between them are generally visible two minute 
narrow white spots, which are situated above and below the upper median veinlet ; 
beyond is a narrow dusky-black lunular submarginal line edging the grey-white outer 
border. Hindwing with a broader greyish-white marginal sinuous-edged band 
