NYMrHALID.E. SATYRIN.E. EPINEPIIELE. 209 



"Differs from E, neoza, Lang, in being smaller, in the ferruginous [fulvous?] on the fore- 

 wing being more Histinct in the male, and in the absence of the transverse discal sinuous brown 

 line on the forewing." (Moore, I. c.) 



The localities given for this species by Dr. Felilcr are Spiti ; Losar, Dishungdco, Kil)I)er, 

 Shalkar, Rupshu, and Rumbog in Ladak ; Karnag ; Niri Sumdo, 15,000 feet ; Padam ; 

 Abrang ; and Marsmag. Mr. de Niccville took a large series of males and a single female at 

 Dras and Tashgam in Ladak in June ; and according to Moore, Captain Ilellard took it 

 in Kashmir, and Major J. Riddulph took a male specimen at Astor at 7,700 feet altitude in 

 September. It appears to affect higher elevations and to occur fuither in the interior than 

 E. iteoza does. 



The left hand half of the figure shews the upperside of a male in Mr. de Niceville's 

 collection from Dras, Ladak. The other half of the figure refers to E. pulchva, male, 

 not E. pulc/tclla, female, as erroneously entered on the plate. 



197- Epinophele nsoza, Lang. 



Ej>ine/>hile neoza, Lang, Eiit. Month. Mag., vol. v, p. 35 (i868). 



Habitat : Western Himalayas. 



Expanse : 16 inches (Lanx) ; i"85 actual measurement of the female type specimen. 



Description: " 1\Lvle : UppERSiDE greyish-brown. Eorewing with the discal portion 

 broadly suffused with a satiny brownish-ferruginous ; a single apical black spot. Undeksiue : 

 Eortioing with markings as above ; but the disc is brightly ferruginous and separated from the 

 grey-brown exterior margin by a narrow, sinuous, darker line ; and the apical spot has a 

 minute white pupil and diffused yellowish iris. A transverse, fine, scarcely distinct ferruginous 

 line, strongly angulated outwards below the ocellus, crosses the wing beyond the middle. 

 /f/«t/7<7/«^'' greyish-brown, minutely striated and freckled, with three transverse, sinuous and 

 dentated lines darker ; the first basal, the second discal, the third simulating a submarginal 

 series of connected lunules. Female : Markings generally as in the male ; but the disc of 

 forewing on upperside brightly ferruginous, the apical spot larger, and with an indistinct 

 paler ferruginous iris. On the hiiuhiiing the submarginal lunular line of the underside appears 

 very indistinctly (or not at all) on the upperside." (Lang, 1. c.) 



The type female specimen of E. neoza in Colonel Lang's collection differs from the Ladak 

 female of E. piilchella in Mr. de Niceville's collection in being larger, the subapical spot is also 

 larger, the fulvous patch slightly darker, and the outer brown margin rather wider. On lire 

 underside the discal angulate line on both wings is rather more distinct in E. neoza, 



19S. Epinsphele pulcliraj Felder. (Plate XV, Fig. 40 <?, right hand half ) 

 E. pukhra, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. iii, p. 491, u. 848 (1866). 



Habitat : Western Himalayas. 



Expanse: i '6 to 2 'o inches. 



Description: "Male. Ui'i-erside as in E. pulchella, but i\iQ fomoing witii the 

 fulvous patch less bright, divided by the fulvous [fuscous ?] nervures, and cut through 

 beyond the middle by an obsolete fuscous angulate streak, within which it is irrorated with 

 fuscous ; the margin of the ground-colour beyond wider than in E. pulchella, the blackish 

 spot larger ; the /^/;/./i£////^ irrorated with fulvous on the disc. Underside as in E. pulchella, 

 but the patch of the forewing more restricted and brighter fulvous, divided beyond the 

 middle by the streak of the upperside, but obscure ferruginous and more distinct and the ocellus 

 larger." (P\lder,\. c.) Female: Upperside as in the male, but the forewing with the 

 fulvous patch brighter, the subapical spot larger, its iris more distinct, and the fuscous angulate 

 discal streak more prominent. 



E. piilchra seems to be even more closely allied to E. neoza than to E. pulchella ; 

 typically it is a much darker insect both on the upper and undersides. On the upperside the 



