238 NYMPHALID.^. SATYRIN/E. CENEIS. 



Genus 23.-CB1TEIS, Hubner. (Plate XV.) 



(Eneis, Hubner, Verz. bek. Sehmett., p. 58 (iSi6) ; Chionobas, Boisduval, Lep. Amer. Sept , p 214 (1833) ; 

 id., Westwood, Gen. D. L., vol. ii, p. 3S1 (1851) ; id., Moschler, Wien. Eat. Monatsch., vol. vii, pp. 169, 201 

 (1863), Monogtaph. 



" BouY very hairy ; wings but moderately clothed with scales, of a dull brownish buff, or 

 dirty fulvous colour ; the hindwing beneath much freckled. Head very small, and very hairy. 

 Eyes prominent, naked. Palpi densely hairy in front, porrected obliquely, scarcely reaching 

 to the level of the top of the eyes, but porrected to the length of the head ; terminal joint 

 small, slender-oval, hairy. Antenna short, slender, gradually thickened from the middle 

 Into a long but not thick club, obtuse at the tip, concave, finely carinated beneath. Thorax 

 very hairy. Abdomen small, slender, hairy. Forewing elongate-triangular ; the costal 

 margin scarcely arched ; apes rounded ; outer margin convex, entire, about two-thirds the length 

 of the costal ; inner margin straight, not quite so long as the outer. Neiuation as in Erebia, 

 except that, in consequence of the greater length and narrowness of the wing, the discoidal 

 cell is narrowed and elongated to some distance beyond the middle ; the middle and lower 

 disco-cellular nervules (the upper being obsolete), forming a nearly continuous, oblique, 

 slightly curved line. Hindwing also elongated, so that it extends considerably beyond the 

 inner angle of the forewing ; the costal margin nearly straight ; the outer margin rounded, 

 entire, or but slightly scalloped ; anal margin entire. Neuration as in Erebia, except that the 

 discoidal cell is elongated and narrow, extending considerably beyond the middle of the wing ; 

 the upper disco-cellular nervule is also much elongated, and the lower one as long as the 

 space between the base of the third branch of the median nervure and the point of its junc- 

 tion with the lower disco-cellular. Forelegs of the male very small and slender, densely 

 clothed to the tip with long loose hairs ; the femur about as long as the tibia, and the tarsus as 

 the tibia. Fo^ir hindlegs short ; femur rather thick, very hairy beneath ; tibia clothed all over 

 with long loose hairs ; tibial spurs long and acute ; tarsi armed beneath and at the sides 

 with rows of spines. Claws curved, long, simple, and very acute. Paronychia and pulviilus 

 small." 



" (Eneis is distinguished from the other genera of Satyrina partly by the more elongate 

 form of the wings, and shorter inner margin of i\\Q forewing, which occasions a deeper incision 

 between its hinder angle and the apex of the hindwing, partly by the wings being less densely 

 clothed with scales than ordinary, and partly by the pale, livid, or obscure colours of the 

 wings, and the hindwing marked with paler nervures beneath. Also by the very hairy con- 

 dition of the four hindlegs, and the greater elongation of the discoidal cell of both wings, and 

 of the upper disco-cellular nervule of the hindiuing." (IVeslwood, I.e.) 



The genus is a Paljearctic one extending into the Nearctic region. About twenty species 

 are known, chiefly from the Arctic regions, and from the high mountain ranges in the temper- 

 ate zone : only a single species occurs within our limits at great elevations in the Hima- 

 layas. 



231. CEneiS pumilllS, Felder, (Plate XV, Fig. 37 $). 



Chionobas pumilus, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. iii, p. 490, n. 846, pi. Ixix, figs. 6, 7 (1866^, 

 male; id., Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1882, p. 404, pi. xxv, fig. 3. 



Habitat : Ladak, Sikkim, Himalayas. 



Expanse : i -9 inches. 



Description: " Male : Upperside, both wings yellowish-brown, with a band beyond the 

 middle ochreous-yellow ; the cilia whitish spotted with fuscous. Forewing with the band edged 

 with fuscous, obsoletely submacular, furcate at apex ; in the hindwing it is inwardly defined w'llh. 

 fuscescent and bisinuated. Underside : Forewing \n\.\d\ paler, hoary on the costal and apical 

 border and irrorated and striated with fuscous, a ferruginous-fuscous cellular streak [on the 

 disco-cellubr nervules] ; the fascia as on the upperside but edged with ferruginous-fuscous, and 

 including a dot of the same colour between the discoidal nervules ; and fuscous irrorations before 

 the cilia, Hindwing ^sXq fuscous, closely striated with dark fuscous, chiefly towards the base. 



