202 NV.\irriALID/E. SATYRIN.E. EPINEPHELE. 



is fulvous wiili brown margins, and tlie brown sexual mark extending from near the inner margin 

 to near tlie apex of the ceil l)elow the median nervine.] Undersidk witli the costal and 

 exterior margins of the foraving greyish brown, the inner space pale ferruginous, the apical 

 ocellus with a white pupil and Ijrown-bordered yellow iris, which latter, however, does not 

 encircle the spot, being cut off as it were posteriorly ; a short streak before the ocellus, and a 

 submargiual line, dark brown. Hiiidwino grey, with delicate minute brown stride ; a discal 

 and a submargiual line dark brown, the former irregularly [even, but angulate] across the 

 disc from micUlle of anterior to posterior margin, both bordered outwardly with pale white, and 

 having a single anterior and two posterior black ocelli, each with a yellow* brown -bordered iris, 

 and the anterior with a white pupil. Female pale grey, the ferruginous space in Xht fonnving 

 ill-defined, and with a second black spot situated near the posterior angle [sometimes evanescent or 

 altogether wanting]. Underside as in the male, but with the lower black spot on ihsfomving 

 as above, the anterior ocellus on the hindiuitig being minute or nearly obsolete. Allied to 

 E. eiiiiora." (Moore, 1. c.) 



" iVc/e. — This is a Thibetian and Spiti insect, affecting the dry hot summer of the rainless 

 region of the Cliinese frontier. On a hot June or July day, these solder insects may be seen 

 flitting about the stony hillsides, 9,000 to 1 2,000 feet altitude — hill-sides where the GiaminacecE 

 are scarce and brown, and grey Artcmisice and Eplu'lra form the principal vegetation. They 

 do not occur in the moister and more wooded regions of the Himalayas ; but first appear on 

 the confines of Upper Kunawur, in Spiti, and the Chinese provinces of Gughe and Nari 

 Khorsum (Thibet)." (Colonel A. M. Lang, A'. E., 1. c.) 



Tiie ocellation on the underside of this species is variable. In the specimens taken by 

 Colonel Lang, who obtained the types, there are three ocelli on the underside of the hindiuing, 

 one subapical, two subana! ; in the male all three are prominent, but never so large as in the 

 next species E. roxa/ie ; in the female the sulsapical ocellus is more or less evanescent ; in 

 three males taken in I'angi in July by Dr. Hutchison, the subapical ocellus is absent entirely, 

 and the subanal ones are very small, the dark lines too are very faint and less angulate, and their 

 whitish borderings very indistinct, almost obsolete in one specimen. Two males taken by 

 Mr. de Niceville at Kargil and Nuria in Ladak, early in July, have all the ocelli large, almost as 

 large as in E. roxaiie ; one female from Kargil is similarly marked, another female from the 

 same locality has a fourth small ocellus above the subapical one, and another female also from 

 the same locality has only two ociilli, the lower subanal one being entirely wanting. In a male 

 and a female, both taken at Slier Dawaza near Kabul by Lieutenant H. Whistler-Smith, the 

 upper ocellus is entirely wanting ; in a second male specimen from the same locality it is 

 present ; while in two females from Khistwar, Kashmir, the upper ocellus is obsolete. More- 

 over the three male specimens from Pangi, that we have referred to above, differ from all the 

 others in the cilia on both wings, both above and below, being pale brown, not more or less 

 white as in the specimens from the other localities ; and the scalloping of the liindwing is much 

 less deep. 



The figure shows the upper an 1 undersides of a female specimen in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, taken at Kabul by Lieutenant II. Whis'.ler-Smith. 



192. Epiao?h3lo rosano, Feider. 



E, roxa'ie, FeUler, Reise Novnra, Lep., vul. iii, p. 491, n. S^g, pi. Ixix, figs, 12, 13(1866), female; id., 

 Tiitfr, ^'roc. Zool. Sue. Lond., if'So, p. 405. 



IIvBirAT: Wes'.ern Himalayas, Kunawar, Spiti; Losar, Kargil, Ladak; Beluchistan. 



Expanse: 20 to 22 inches. 



Descriptio.s : " Fe.male. Upperside, hoary-brown ; the margin immediately before 

 the cilia fuscous. Foreimiig with the discal area pale fulvous, divided by a .streak most often 

 obsolete, and with one black blind ocellus and often another median incomplete, and bordered 



"This must be .nn error ; in .•»1I the sjieriiri-ns we Ktvc seen, inc^idinjj those in Colonel T^atif's collection 

 (Captured witli the types of the species, the iriiies of the ocelli are white or grey, certainly not yellow. 



