NYMPHALID^. SATYRIN.E. AMECERA. i8l 



black centre ; a submarginal series of whitish-grey lunules. Allied to Z. [A.] schakra, Kollar." 

 {Moore, 1. c.) 



The FEMALE differs in being paler coloured, in lacking the male sexual streak, and in 

 having on the UPPERSIDE of theyt;;r7<'///^ a large triangular brij^ht fulvous patch occupying 

 nearly the apical half of the wing ; the ocellus is included in this patch, and it is cut only by 

 the dark nervules, not divided into streaks as in /^. schakra. 



A. meitava "comes from middle Kunawar, the pleasant villages of Pangi and Rarung, 

 where the last showers of rain fall at rare intervals. It does not venture to the drier regions ; 

 and its uniformly dark colour remains constant, and seems to distinguish it from the more 

 fulvous L. \_A.\ schakra so common on every rocky roadside in Lower Kunawar and the Simla 

 hills." (Note by Colonel Lang in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1. c.) It is also found in the Pangi 

 and Chini districts in the months of June and July, but it appears to be local, and nowhere very 

 common. Mr. de Niceville took a male at Nurla, Ladak, on July 5th, and two females, — one 

 each at Chanagund and Kargil, Ladak, on June 30th and July ist respectively. These were 

 all the specimens he saw, the extremely scanty vegetation of this dry and barren region not 

 being favourable to an abundant insect fauna. Quite recently a female specimen has been 

 taken by Colonel Lang in the Kawas Valley in Beluchistan at 8,000 feet elevation in the 

 month of September, which shows that this species has a far wider range than was at first 

 believed. 



175- Amecera mseroides, Feider. 



Lasiommata tna>roi(fes, Feider, Reise Novara, Lep , vol. iii, p. 496, n. 859, pi. Ixix, fig. i (1865), female. 

 Habitat: Dras, Ladak ; Chulichang, at 12,000 feet elevation ; Pangi. 

 Expanse: c?,2'ito2-4; ?,2-3 to 2-4 inches. 



Description : '♦ Male : UppEusinE as in L. [A ] menava, but paler ; the streaks more 

 obsolete. Forrwing with the ocellus distinctly surrounded with fulvous, and with two large spots 

 irrorated with fulvous below it. Hindwing with two ocelli coloured as in /.. [^.] meitava, but 

 more broadly ringed and a little nearer to the margin ; a fulvous spot annexed to the upper 

 ocellus. Underside as in Z. \_A.'\ menava, but the hindwing with the streaks of the basal half 

 fuscous, scarcely margined with fulvous ; that beyond the cell a little more directed outwards 

 towards the costa. Female. Upperside. .Ft';vT£/m^ with the ocellus placed on a triangular 

 band of deep fulvous. A local form of Z. \^A .'\menava , Moore, which Dr. Stoliczka collected in 

 numbers on the Southern Himalayas near Pangi in Kunawar. The FEMALE differs from the yet 

 undescribed female of Z. tnenava in the fulvous patch of the forewinghsmg throughout distinctly 

 defined, lighter and hardly divided by the nervules, and in the two ocelli of the hindwing being 

 separated from each other, smaller, and somewhat nearer to the margin, as well as differing on 

 the underside in the same way as described for the male. The two females of Z. tnenava taken 

 by Dr. Stoliczka have on the upperside a third irregular ocellus confluent with the large one 

 placed between the second and third median nervules." (Feider, 1. c.) 



A. mcEroides is given by Butler in his Cat. Satyridce B. M., p. 126, as a synonym of A, 

 menava ; but the presence in the male of the large fulvous spots below the ocellus on the 

 upperside of the forewing distinguish it from that species. No difference, however, can 

 be detected on comparing a female of A. menava with Felder's figure of a female of A, mceroides, 

 except in the slightly larger extent of the fulvous patch on the forewing. 



There are three specimens in Major INIarshall's collection of an Amecera taken at Pangi in 

 July and one female in August by Mr. Robert Ellis ; two of the former are clearly males by the 

 structure of the abdomen and of the forelegs, and the outline of the wings, but they have no 

 trace whatever of the male sexual streak on the forewing. They correspond well with Felder's 

 desciiplion of A. niceroides, and we refer them to that species, although the third 

 specimen, a female, taken at the same time and place, resembles that of A. schakra, and not 

 that of A. w«irtz/a, in style of markings of the upperside. All three are much darker in 

 colour than A. schakra usually is, but paler than A. menava. They are certainly distinct 



