XVMrilAUD.E. SATYRIN.F.. HIITARCIJIA. 189 



1S2, Hipparcliia digna, Mmsiiaii. 



//. digna, Marshall, Joiirn. A. S. B., vol. li, pt. ii, p. G7 (1SS2). 



IIaiutat: N.-W. Himalayas. 

 Expanse : 2-45 inches. 



Dkscuiption : Female. Upperside, rather dark hrown, with a broad fulvous sub- 

 marginal band outwardly defined with dark lunulcs, and bearin- on tlic fomuing a single 

 apical oval black spot scarcely perceptibly pupilled, on the /iiji</7C'/ii<^> unmarked. The band 

 IS regular and well-defined throughout, slightly angulate on its inner edge on both wings, and 

 parallel to the margin, but inversely scalloped on the outer edge ; it is well removed from 

 the margin, leaving a much broader brown border than in any other Indian Hij'parchia. 

 Underside : i^<^;rz<:v//^ with the fulvous band as on upperside, but ochreous at the costal and 

 inner margins ; the black suliapical spot, but distinctly pupilled ; the middle area of the basal 

 half also fulvous merging into the submargin.al band, a daik sul)marginal dentate line defining 

 the band outwardly, the inner margin broadly dark brown, except where crossed l)y the band, 

 the outei and costal margins broadly pale brownish mottled with darker brown ; and the latter 

 Avith numerous irregular dark brown strice, extending into the cell. I/inihving pale brownish 

 white, clouded with a darker shade, and mottled throughout with very dark brown strise : 

 a dark brown dentate line corresponding to the outer margin of the band of the upperside, 

 another corresponding with the inner edge ; the space between them being inwardly broadly 

 ■whitish, outwardly clouded with brown ; a subbasal dark line, between which and the discal 

 line the ground-colour is brown, the base of the wing being rather paler brown with several 

 well-defined strigse. 



Two specimens, both females, were taken by Major J. Biddulph on the Shandur plateau 

 in Northern Kashmir. 



183. Hipparchia hueljiieri, Feider. 



Satyrns huhiicri, Feider, Reise Nov^ira, Lep., vol. iii, p. 494, n. S55, pi. Ixix, figs. 8, 9 (iS66),/i)/ia/e. 



Habitat: Lahoul ; Shigri, Spiti ; Dishungdeo j Gilgit ; N.-W. Himalayas. 



Expanse : i'9 to 2'i inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside darker than in Satynts agave, E.sper \^ = Sa(y)Hs 

 alcyoiie* P'abricius, nee Wien. Verz.], the fascia much deeper fulvous, outwardly acutely dentate, 

 more distant from the margin ; in the foreiuing inwardly rather diffused, not at all divided 

 by fuscous veins, and distinctly marked with blind spots ; in the himkoing shorter, not ex- 

 tending beyond the second subco.stal nervule, without an ocellus. Underside also darker 

 than in S. agave. Forewing with the entire disc fulvescent, darker in the middle, divided 

 by a single swarthy disco-cellular litura, the ocelli smaller, the upper one broadly and diffusely 

 circled with ochraceous, the submarginal striga more drawn back anteriorly than as in 

 Saiyrus geyeti.\ Hiiiihoing with all the nervules white, the streaks as in 6". geyeri, but 



* Satyrus aliyone,'Fahr\c\\xs. Habitat: Russia. Description: ''Wings, dentate; upperside fuscous 

 with a yellow fascia margined with black, not at all sinuate on the forewing, with two ocelli on both 

 sides. Underside : Hindwiug marbled with cinereous and fuscous, no fascia. Papilio S. nlcyotie. Wings 

 dentate, fuscous, banded with yellow ; forewing with two ocelli on both sides. Hindwing marbled on the 

 underside. {Fnhricius, IMant. Ins. vol. ii. p. 38, n. 399 (1787) ; idem, id., F.nt. Syst., vol. iii, pt. i, p. 231 

 ri. 724 (1793.; Closely allied to S. seiiiclc, but distinguished from it in that the yellow band of the upperside of 

 the wings is better detached from the ground-colour and is bordered with black ; that it is straight and 

 almost continuous on the forewing," that it has no spot, at least well-defined, on the hindwing; that the 

 underside of the latter is destitute of the angulate white band ; that the underside of the former, with the excep- 

 tion of the margins which are brown, is everywhere of a pale yellow, and moreover cut transversely by undulate 

 black lines. It inhabits the very elevated places in the southern parts of Russia. It must not be confounded 

 with that variety of hermio'te, of which several authors have made a separate species under the iia.\n&ol aicyone." 

 (Goiiart, Enc. Meth., vol. ix, p. 517, n. 112 (1819). 



t Satyrus geyeri, Herrich-Sch.afier, Schmett. Eur., vol. i, figs. 301, 302 (1S46-47). Habitat : .'^sia Minor. 

 Expanse: 2 inches. Description: Male. Upperside brown, with an ill-defined paler submarginal band bearing 

 two faint ocelli, and with the other markings of the underside showing through by transparency. Underside : 

 Foreiving pale ochreous, the outer margin brown, inwardly defined with a series of dark convex lunules 

 a subapical and a lower black spot, each with a minute white pupil ; a prominent but interrupted dark line 

 defining the inner edge of the pale submarginal fascia, a dark streak on the disco-cellulars, and another in the 

 cell, the costa and the cell being mottled with fuscous. Hiudiuing brown ; the cilia and all the nervules white • 

 a highly dentate submarginal line, another median irregular, outw.irdly broadly defined with white mottled with 

 brown, another basal less irrci;ui.ir, and one on the disco-cclhilars d.irk brown ; the whole wing faintly and 

 sparingly irroraled with daik specks. 



