2J0 NVMPHALID.-E. SATYKIN/E. EPINEPHELE. 



fulvous patch is in some specimens almost altogether obsolete, and in these there is little or 

 no trace of the dark discal line ; in others, where the fulvous patch is more prominent, the 

 transverse discal line is prominent also, and the brown margin is wider ; but the patch is never 

 so large, so continuous, or so pale as in E. 7ieoza ; on the underside the markings appear to be 

 identical, but E. pidchia is much the darker. 



Dr. Felder gives Kunawar; Pangi, Bisahir, and Chini for this species. Mr. de Niccville 

 took several males at Dras and Tashgam, Ladak, in June ; Mr. R. Ellis took it in Pangi in 

 July ; Mrs. Bazett took it in Kashmir at Baba Marishi, at 8,400 feet elevation in June, at 

 K.atahal at 10,000 feet, and at Goolmurgat 9,400 feet, in July. Major J. Biddulph took a jiair, 

 male and female, on the Shandur plateau in northern Kashmir ; the female having on the 

 forewing a second black spot placed on the lower median interspace, both spots piouiinently 

 circled with pale ochraceous, the irides coalescing. Mr. A. Graham Young has sent a 

 single female from the Kulu Valley. 



Tlie ri"ht hand half of the figure shews the upperside of a male in Mr. de Niceville's 

 collection from Dras, La lak. and is not that of a female of E. piilchdla, as erroneously given 

 on the plate. The other half is correctly named E. pulchella, male. 



Erschofif in his Lep. Turkestan describes and figures as E. amardcca, var. nanbulensis, 

 a species which seems clearly to belong to this group, and to be closely alied to E. pulchra. 

 His description is as follows: " M.\le : Uppkrside without ocelli. Underside : A^/«,/wi«^ 

 unicolorous grey, median fascia almost wanting." The figure shows a very small male insect 

 I 4 inches in expanse, with no sexual brand on the forewing. The upperside of both 

 tc'///^'j brown, darkest at the outer margin ; the «//<? paler. UNDERSIDE: Forewing fulvous, 

 the outer margin broadly pale brown, with two dark submarginal lines, a subapical small 

 ocellus, and a smaller submedian black spot below ; the hindwing uniform pale brown, with 

 indistinct dark striae ; and indistinct, but somewhat regular, subbasal, median and marginal 

 dark lines. It is most like E. pulchra but smaller, with no trace of the fulvous patch on the 

 upperside, and with two black spots on the underside, and none on the upperside in the fore- 

 wing. In his paper on the Lepidoptera of Kuldja and the neighbouring mountains (Hor. Soc, 

 Ent. Ross., vol. xvi, p. 425 (1881), Alpheraky also records a species belonging to this 

 "roup with the following remarks : ^' Epinepkele si^tcies"} Some males of a species probably 

 new, which have also been taken in the Altai by Haberhauer. Dr. Staudinger had deter- 

 mined them as E. pnkhella, Felder, and truly it is a species closely allied to this latter to 

 iud<Te from the underside especially. I have since received from Dr. Staudinger a male under 

 the name of E natibiiiensis, Erschoff, which does not appear to me to be distinct from the 

 doubtful E. pulchella from the Altai." All these remarks appear to us to apply to one and 

 the same species, which is nearest to E. pulchra, not E. pulchella, but closely allied to both, 

 and which should stand as E. naubidemis, Erschoff. 



199- Epinsphsle cceaonymplia, Fci.ier. 



E. ccenonym/'h.t, felder, Reise Novara, Lcp, vol. iii, p. 492, n. 850, pi. l.\ix, figs. 14, 15 (1866), fenialt. 



Habitat : Suroo, Ladak ; Western Himalayas. 



Expanse : ? , r65 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside fuscous, with the forewing below and the hindwing 

 above the internal nervure obscurely and shiningly hoary, [this is not quite clear, and there 

 is no trace of it in the figures which accompany the description]. Forewing w'x'OlX ^w oz€i\yxs 

 between the discoidal nervules, and another between the first median nervules, blackish-fuscous, 

 blind, incomplete. Underside hoai7-fuscous, paler in the exterior region, with a very 

 obsolete submarginal line. Fomving with a large fulvous discal patch, ill-defined, divided by 

 a fuscous disco-cellular streak, and a most indistinct small fuscous fascia beyond the cell ; the 

 ocelli of the upperside blacker, the upper one with an indistinct ochraceous iris. Hindwing 

 densely irrorAtcd with blackish at the base, with a large fulvous jiatch on the upper base, with 



