NYMPIIALIDiE. SATYRIN^-. PARARGE. 177 



Genus Lasiommata, Westwood. 

 Lasiommata, Westwood, Gen. D. L., p. 385 (1S51). 

 "Body slender, hairy ; costal and median nervines of the forfiving- swollen at the base. 

 ZT^^f/ moderate-sized, very hairy, with a frontal tuft. .£jw prominent, hairy. /",//// porrected 

 obliquely, the tips raised to the level of the tops of the eyes, extending forwards as 

 far as the length of the head, very slender ; the front of the basal and second joints thickly 

 clothed with long divaricating hairs, extending to the tip ; the terminal joint being extremely 

 short. Antenna straight, distinctly annulated with white, not quite half the length of the 

 forewing, terminated by a distinct, compressed, pear-shaped club, the tip being bent outwards ; 

 the club, however, varies considerably in shape, being elongated and very gradually formed in 

 some exotic species. Thorax oval, moderate-sized, hairy. Abdomen slender. Forewing 

 large, elongate-triangular ; costal margin moderately arched ; apex rounded ; outer margin 

 entire, more than two-thirds of the length of the costal ; inner margin about as long as 

 the outer. Costal and median nervures dilated at the base, the latter less so than the 

 former. Keuration as in Eiebia ; the tipfei- disco-celhdar very short, transverse ; the middle and 

 IcMer forming a continuous curved line, the middle one shorter than the lower one ; the 

 ^/jf(7/(/(7/r£7/ reaching rather beyond the middle of the wing ; a nervule extending into the 

 discoidal cell continuous with the lower discoidal nervule ; another nervule extending back- 

 wards from near the lower extremity of the lower disco-cellular nervule. Hindwing 

 subovate ; outer margin moderately scalloped ; anal margin not incised near the extremity. 

 Upper disco-cellular nervule arising at a short distance from the origin of the branch of the 

 subcostal, considerably curved, and throwing off a nervule backv\ards into the discoidal cell ; 

 loT-oer disco-cellular considerably longer than the upper one, also curved, and united with 

 the median nervure at the origin of its third branch, or sometimes preceding the third branch. 

 Forelegs small, but distinct, and very hairy in both sexes ; those of the male very 

 slender, and more thickly hairy, with the tarsus simple, and acute at the tip. Those of the 

 female scarcely longer ; tibia shorter than the femur ; tarsus equal to the tibia, dilated, and 

 compressed at the extremity, where it is articulated, and armed on the inside with short spines. 

 Four hindlegs moderately long, very slender, scaly ; femur hairy beneath ; tibia and tarsus 

 with very few spines beneath. Claws curved, acute, simple, dilated into an angulated lobe 

 at the base. Paronychia slender, bifid. Piilvilhts small, rounded." 



" Larva. Elongate, villose, with two short points at the tail. Pupa short, thick, with 

 snaall angular projections, and two points at the head ; suspended by the tail." {Westwood, I.e.) 



The whole of the Indian species belong to two sections which have been generlcally 

 separated under the names Para.rge and Aniecera on the following characters : — 



Genus 15.— PAHAHG-B, liubner. 



Parargc, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 59 (1816). 

 Differs but slightly from Lasiommata in having the median nervure of the forenung but very 

 slightly swollen at base ; the outer margin of the forewing is scarcely sinuate, and the inner 

 margin is longer than the outer. The sexes are identical in markings, but differ somewhat in 

 aspect owing to all the black markings being far more prominent in the female. The male 

 has no sexual patches of raised scales or tufts of hairs on the wings. 



Only a single species occurs within Indian limits ; it is found in the North-West 

 Himalayas. The colour is ochreous yellow with the outer margin and a few spots black 

 and is quite different in aspect from all other Indian species of this subfamily. 



171. Pararge cashmirensis, Jioore. 



p. cashmitcnsis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 265, pi. xliii, fig 3, male. 

 PIabitaT: N.-W. Plimalayas. 

 Expanse: (?,20to2'2; ?, 2'2 to 2-35 inches. 



Description: " Male : Upperside ochreous yellow, brownish at the hase. Ciliz 

 yellowish white, spotted with black. Foreuing with a black dentate disco-cellular streak, and 



