,S4 NYMPIIAUD^T':. SATVKIX.E. IlirrARCillA. 



ocelli on the undoiMac of the hliulwing, from all the oilier species, ll.at it slan.ls quite apart, 

 having no near allies. The remaining species all come under the subgenus Euvieiiis, Iliibncr, 

 according to Scudder, who accepts //. Scinele as the type of this group. 



176. Sipparchia parisatiS, Kollar. (Plate XVI, Fig. 47 ?.) 



Satyyus f-ansatis, Kollar, Dcnk.clir. Akad. Wien. Math.-Nat. CI, vol. i., p. 52, n. 7 (1850) ; /////<in7//« 

 (Saiyrus) macroJ>thalmus, Eversmai.n, Bull. Mosc , vol. x.\iv., pt. i, p. 615, n. 5 (1851J. 



Habitat: Western Himalayas, Afghanistan, Persia, Armenia. 

 Expanse : 27 to 3-2 inches. 



Description : " Upperside black, broadly margined with white. Hbnhviug dentate. 

 Underside : both 'Mings marbled with cinereous and white, a common angulate median white 

 fascia, two black ocelli on each wing circled with yellow, and pupilled with white. A most 

 distinct species, widely diverse from all of this genus." (Kollar, I.e.) 



In Indian specimens the upperside is of a blackish brown colour, and when fresh beauti- 

 fully glossed with blue in certain lights. The white outer margin is broadest on the hindwing, 

 and does not reach the ape.\ of the forewing. In some specimens the outer half of the costal 

 margin is whitish, widening out towards the apex. The fomoiiig has two submarginal black 

 spots, the upper minutely white-pupilled, the lower blind. The himlwitig has one subanal 

 black spot with minute white pupil. The underside is pale French-grey, profusely covered 

 with fine irregular dark stria; on the costal half of the forcwiiig, and on the entire hiiukuivg, 

 and mottled with wldtish. With an angulate median white fascia on both wings, inwardly 

 defined by a blackish line, with two large submarginal ocelli on each wing, with yellow iris and 

 narrow dark brown outer ring, the upper prominently white-pupilled on both wings ; the lower 

 blind on the forewing, minutely white-pupilled on the hindwing. A narrow submarginal line, 

 and the extreme margin dark brown ; the cilia white. In Persian specimens the colour is paler 

 brown, and the white naargin is much broader, extending beyond the black subanal spot on the 

 hindwing. 



The MALE has the sexual mark on the forewing broadly along the median nervure extend- 

 ing into the cell, of the same colour as the ground, but visible owing to the greater density 

 of the scales, and a slight sheen on them owing to their different structure. It has also a single 

 white spot (sometimes two) on the underside of the forewing between the ocelli. T\\q fcvtalc 

 lacks the sexual streak, and has two white spots between the ocelli of the forewing on both 

 upper and undersides, which are sometimes traceable in the male on the upperside. Major 

 Kol)erts states (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 18S0, p. 405) that " when fresh and in the sun the 

 white border is shot with brilliant blue." 



//. parisatis is the commonest and most widely spread of all the Indian Ilipparchias. 

 ^Ye have specimens taken by Mrs. Deane in Chini in June ; in Pangi by Mr. R. Ellis in July ; 

 and in Gilgit by Major J. Biddulph in August. Regarding its habits Colonel Lang writes : — 

 " Obtained on steep precipices over bare hill-sides above the Sutlej ; and these Himalayan 

 precipices are not quite the ground for the entomologist, net in hand, and eye fixed on the 

 soaring insect. The aspect of the insect on the wing is quite Nymphalidian — a soaring flight, 

 swift if frightened, pitching in all sorts of inaccessible spots. Subsequently found very com- 

 monly in Upper Kunawar, always on steep cliffs, pitching on rocks." It is found commonly 

 throughout the hilly regions of Afghanistan and P>eluchistan. In the neighbourhood of 

 Kandahar it "frequents nullas and shady places, and may be caught by dozens at a time. 

 Abundant but local at the end of May, and in June in shady, moist places among the low, 

 rocky, barren hills." (Afnj'or Rohcrls, 1, c.) Colonel Swinhoe took it in a small field of potatoes, 

 at Chaman in South Afghanistan on the 2ist May, and at Mach in the middle of the 

 P>olan pass in July. Mr. de Nictville has taken it near Simla, and at Kotgarh in the autumn, 

 in Chumba in May, at Budruwah and Junglewah on the frontiers of Kashmir in June, and 

 late in Jidy near Pajoura, Kulu. 



The figure is taken from a female specimen in Mr. de Nicevillc's collection taken at 

 Junglewah, Kashmir, and shows both the upper and undcrsiiles. 



