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a smaller one above coalescing with it, ciicled willi fuscous [ihe fuscous cincture is not shown 

 in the figure] ; the basal region darker, defined by an interrupted ilexuous fuscous streak, and 

 margined externally by seven unequal spots, the larger median one excepted, fulvescent, 

 contiguous ; with a minute posterior ocellus, obsolete, broadly circled with ochraceous. 

 Fkmalk : Upperside as in the male. Fore-wing beyond the cell shaded with darker, with 

 two blind black ocelli, but broadly circled with ochraceous, (especially the upper smaller one). 

 Hiiidiving showing the markings of the underside. Unuersiuk as in the male, but darker. 

 J-orewing with the ocelli larger, more distinct, and with minute white pupils. Hiruhviitg with 

 two blind, whitish, subanal spots." {Fclder, 1. c.) 



We have never seen E. ccenonyiiipha, and the type specimens collected by Dr. Stoliczka 

 are apparently unique. It is closely allied to buih E. maiza and J£. goolinurga, and approaches 

 the latter most closely by the presence of a subanal ocellus on the underside of the hindwing : 

 the colour is much darker in the figure of the female than that of the females of E. maiza 

 and E. gooliiiwga which we have seen, but not darker than fresh males of E. maiza. The 

 principal points of distinction appear to be that in E. coenonympha the male has two ocelli on 

 the UPPEUsiDE of the forewing ; and en the underside the fulvous patch on the forewing 

 occupies the entire wing, excepting the narrow brownish margins, and no trace of the discal 

 streak is shown in the figure ; whereas this streak is very prominent in E. maiza ; and on the 

 hindwing the basal area is much darker than the outer area, and edged with an interrupted 

 dark brown lunular line, and the yellowish spots beyond appear to coalesce ; whereas in E. 

 maiza the colour of the hindwing is uniform, the dark line is absent, and the yellowish spots 

 are well separated ; but all these characters are variable, and it is possible that further research 

 will show that E. maiza is really inseparable from E. coenonympha, 



200. EpinophelS maiza, Lang. (Plate XV, Fig. 41 ?). 



'Efinephile maiza, Lang, Ent. Month, Mag., vol. v, p. 36 (1S6S) ; id., Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1874, 

 p. 265, pi xliii, fig. 6, male. 



Habitat : Goolmurg and Pir Pinjal, Kashmir. 



Expanse : i'5 to i'6 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside dark brown. Forciuing with a small, scarcely per- 

 ceptible ocellus [this ocellus is often entirely absent, the upperside being uniform unspotted 

 brown]. Uiidarsule ferruginous brown. Fomviug with the discal portion clear ferruginous, 

 traversed by the dark nervures, and crossed by an angular discal band ; a small subapical 

 ocellus, distinct, iris yellow, white-pupilled. Hindiving with a small subbasal ferruginous 

 patch, and an irregular transverse discal series of yellowish spots." (Moore, 1. c.) "Female : 

 Upperside as in E. goolinurga, Lang, but with the irides of the ocelli much smaller and 

 darker. Underside generally as in F2. i^oohnurga ; but in the/oreiving the greyish-brown 

 borders and the transverse discal line are much broader and darker. In the hindwing the 

 colour is clear, unclouded brown ; the basal ferruginous patch is larger, the discal series 

 of cuneiform spots is incomplete and indistinct, formed of smaller, darker spots, and the four 

 submarginal ocelli are entirely wanting. The forrwiiig is slightly broader, and has a more 

 rounded apex and more convex exterior maigin than in E. goolinurga.'" 



" Were this insect and E. goobnurga male and female, they would be indubitably set down 

 as sexes of one species, but both appear to be females ; these may, however, pertain to one 

 species, which is variable, and of which a larger series must be obtained before its character 

 can be correctly defined." {Lang, 1. c.) 



The female only appears to differ from the male so far as markings are concerned in 

 having on \.\\e forewing two blind ocelli on the upperside, and two ocelli with minute white 

 pupils on the underside. 



Two specimens of the male from the Pir Pinjal, Kashmir, differ only from a female from 

 the same locality on the upperside of the forewing having but one minute black subapical 



