i88 NYMPIIALID.E. SATYRIN/E. HIPPARCIIIA. 



180. Eipparchia Tjaldiva, Moore. 



Laslommata lahitva, Moore, Pioc. Zool. Soc, Lend., 1S65, p. 499, n. 84, pi. xxx, fig, 4, male. 

 Habitat : Spiti ami Thibet. 

 Expanse : i"87 to 2*5 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside : /^(?;-«w;/^ fuliginous grey. Il{ii<hc'i//£ ashy gvey ; 

 both unngs with a broad, irregularly margined, discal ferruginous band, which has on the 

 /ore-wing an upper and a lower blackish spot, on the hhidiviitj^ a small spot at its lower end. 

 Female, paler. They^r^w'w^ with the spots on the discal band larger, there being also 

 a third intermediate smaller spot ; the spot on the himhuing with a white pupil. Underside 

 grey, of the FEMALE greyish white, with numerous short blackish stride. Fomving with the 

 disc pale ferruginous, the margins of the band (as seen from above), defined by irregular 

 black lines ; in the MALE w^ith a single, in the female with two black spots, the apical 

 with white pupil and yellow iris ; the black dot on the hiiuhvtug also with white pupil and 

 yellow iris. Cilia silvery grey. Allied to H. thclcphassa.'''' (Moore, 1. c.) 



The male of //. ^(?/<//e<T may be readily distinguished from that sex of //. theh'p/iussa 

 by the sexual mark, which in H. baldiva is concolorous with the wing, extending broadly 

 along the median nervure chiefly outside the cell, but inconspicuous. Further in //. baldivd 

 the inner margin of the fulvous band on the /" tw///^'" is almost straight, and the spots between 

 the ocelli are either wanting altogether or, if present, are black, not white ; on the under- 

 side of the himiwiitg, the transverse irregular lines are far more distinct in H. baldiva, than 

 in //. thelephassa ; the female of H. baldiva has the inner margin of the fulvous band 

 almost as angulate as in //. thelephassa, but it lacks the white spots on both surfaces, and 

 has the irregular lines of the hitidwing on the underside far more prominent. 



H. baldiva is apparently a very local insect ; it has never been taken so far as we know, 

 except by Colonel Lang, from whose specimens the original description was taken ; the 

 specimens in Colonel Lang's collection are labelled '"Thibet, 10,000 feet, taken between 

 Shipkee and Broopcha in July," and the following note is recorded : — " On the bare, brown, 

 stony mountain-slopes of Spiti, Upper Kunawar, Thibet ; this species seems to delight in the 

 hot weather of June and July." In Ladak it appears to be replaced by the closely allied 

 //. khana. 



181. Eipparchia lehana, Moore. (Plate XVI, Fig. 489.) 



H. Ichaiia, Moore, Ann. and I\Lis- of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. i, p. 227 (1878) ; idem, id., Second 

 Yarkund Mission, Lep., p. i, pl.,i, fig. 4 (1879), tnale. 



Habitat : Leh (.Septeml)er 6th, 1873) ; Kliabu (13,000 feet), Ladak. 

 Expanse : $ , a^oo inches ; ? , 2'25 inches. 



Description : " Allied to H. baldiva, Moore, from Upper Kunawar. Upperside paler 

 in colour, the discal transverse lutcous band is broader on both wings, and its inner border 

 in the male is inwardly oblique. Both sexes above and beneath are without the small 

 ocellus on the band above the anal angle. Underside also very much paler, and the trans- 

 verse sinuous lines wider apart." {Moore, 1. c, in Ann. and Mag.) 



Mr. de Niceville took one male and two females of this species at Chanagund, Ladak, 

 on June 30th. The male differs from the type male of //. lehana in being larger (255 as 

 against 2-lO inches), and in having the inner edge of the submarginal fulvous band on the 

 upperside of the forewing more distinctly angled inwardly above the third median nervule. 

 On the hindwing, there is a minute black dot in the lower median interspace as in H. baldiva, 

 but smaller. The sexual streak is inconspicuous. The females are also larger, (2^90 as against 

 2-65 inches), otherwise they agree with the female type specimen. The angulation of the 

 inner margin of the fulvous band on the forewing of the male sufTicieully distinguishes it 

 from //. baldiva. 



The figure shows the upper and undersides of a female in Mr. dc Niccvillc's collection ; 

 taken at Chanagund, Ladak. 



