NVMPIIALID.E. SATYRIN.E. 1 IIITAUCIIIA. 185 



177- Eipparcliia pimpla, KMcr. 



Satyrin /•tin/'l.t, FcMcr, Rcisc Novarn, I.cp., vol. iii, p. .|'M, n- 856, pi Ixix, figs. 10, 11 (i36(j),/ein,iU. 



Haiutat : Western Ilimalaya.s ; Afyhanislan, IJclucliistaii. 



Expanse : 1 9 to 2'2 indies. 



Dksckution : MaI.E. Utperside uniform, rather dark brown, the ci/ia wliilisli, markcil 

 with brown on the nervule.s. Foreioiiig witli a black suljapical spot, sometimes minutely 

 pupilled with while, and with obsolete paler iris. Undeksiue : forewiiii; rather paler brown, 

 with a bright ferruginous discal patch covering almost the entire cell, the custal margin 

 marbled with whitish and irregular dark stria: extending into the cell ; the subapical ocellus 

 larger bordered with yellowish on the inner side, followed by a short dark streak ; an incom- 

 plete submargiiial dark line. Ifiiicuoiiti^ pale brown, irregularly mottled with whitisli and 

 dark brown, all the nervules white ; .an indistinct subbasal angulatc striga dark brown ; a 

 dark brown angulatc median streak inwardly diffused, outwardly sharply defined and bordered 

 with white finely mottled with brown ; a submarginal dentate dark line also inwardly diffused 

 and outwardly sharply defined, beyond which the margin is whitish, more conspicuously 

 mottled with brown ; one or two minute subanal black spots marking the positions of 

 obsolete ocelli. Female rather larger, paler brown, the disc tinted with ferruginous, the 

 subapical ocellus much more prominent and with a distinct fulvous iris, with two or three 

 diffused elongate sordid-ferruginous streaks below it. Underside much paler, foie-ivinc 

 with the costal margin ochreous and very slightly mottled, the moltlings scarcely extending 

 into the cell, and showing no defined streaks ; the subapical ocellus large, with pale ochreous 

 yellow iris, the apical area mottled with white, the submarginal line nearly complete. 

 ///Wzt'/wj^ pale ochreous mottled with brown ; the subbasal, discal, and marginal dark lines 

 narrow, well defined ; the two latter having the ground-colour whitish outwardly. 



The female described and figured by Felder is darker than the si>ecimen described above, 

 and lacks the ochreous tinge of the underside. 



//. pimpla is a very rare insect, and though found over a large tract of country, is no- 

 where common. The type specimen, a female, was taken at Chulichang in Ladak ; another 

 female was taken by Major J. Biddulph on the Shandur plateau in Northern Kashmir ; 

 the male, which has not been previously described, was taken at Sher Darwaza near Kabul 

 by Lieutenant H. Whistler-Smith during the late Afghan war; and again quite recently by 

 Colonel A. RI. Lang, R.E., in the neighbourhood of Quetta at Kawas on a rocky peak 8,500 

 feet altitude in September. It is not veiy closely allied to H. arethusa, Wiener Verzeichniss * 

 of Europe, with which Felder's original description appended below, t compares it. It is one 

 of the group of which H. actcca, Esper, of Southern Europe, is the type, and is most closely 

 allied to a variety from Astrabad which has been separated and figured under the name of 

 //. btyce, Ochsenheimer, var. paithka, by Lederer (Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., vol. vi, p. S3, pi, 

 iv, figs. 12 male, 13 female, (1S69) ; H. biyce, Ochsenheimer, being itself a synonym of 

 H. hippodice, Hiibner ; and //. hippodke, Hiibner, being a variety of//. acLca, Esper. A short 

 description of this variety parthka is given below ; the male specimen of H. pimpla from 



* Siityriis arethusa, Wiener Verzeichniss. " Wings dentate, upperside fuscous, with a fulvous macular fascia 

 and a blind ocellus. Underside: Hhiiiwi}!^ marbled with cinereous and fuscous, with a recurved whitish 

 fascia. The wings are feebly dentate ; of an obscure brown on the uppersidr, with a yellow macular outer band 

 bearing near the ape.x- of the /orewing, and near the anal angle of the /liiuinnng, a black blind ocellus. 

 Underside : fore^ving oi a red more or less vivid, with the margins obscure and cut up with blackish, especially 

 onthecosta; the ocellus of the upperside but pupilled with white. Hindwitig ashy dotted with brown, with 

 a whitish transverse discal band curved below, slightly sinuous above, and preceded outwardly by a small 

 black ocellus with a white pupil. The scallops of the outer margin are whitish. Inhabits Russia, Hungary, 

 the middle of Germany, and several districts of France." (Godart, Enc. Meth., vol. ix, p. 517, n. 113 (1S19*. 



\ Satyrus pimpla, p'elder. Habitat : Western Himalayas ; Ladak ; Chulicliang. Expanse : I'g to 2'2 

 inches. Description : " Female. Wings with the cilia shorter than in 6'. [//.] arctkusa. Upperside darker. 

 Fore^ving with the disc tinted with ferruginous, with the black subapical ocellus much larger, sometimes 

 pupilled with white, and with a sordid ferruginous iris, and with two or three diPTuse elongate sordid ferru- 

 ginous spots below it. H indiving w'nh the indistinct submarginal streak darker. Undkrside as in .S". arethusa 

 but xhe/orewing with the fulvous patch covering almost the whole cell, otherwise restricted, well removed 

 from the submarginal streak, the two streaks across th'c cell wanting, the subapical ocellus larger. Hiudwiti" 

 more widely striated, the discal streak prominently bent, not at all directcti downwards, but suhparallel to the 

 margin, outwardly narrowly defined with hoary-white, and another subinaryinal, outwardly defined with 

 hoary-white, broadur and darker." Ifcldir, Keisc Novara, Lep. , vol. iii, p. A'jt, 11. 85'^', pi. l.\ix, fiys. 10 11 

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