350 Mr. H. J. Elwes’ catalogue of the 
Only found in the high ranges on the eastern frontier, 
and in Bhotan; the exact locality and elevation un- 
known, as it has never been taken by a Huropean. 
Those which I have received recently from Bhotan are 
somewhat larger than the type, but do not vary except 
in size. The female differs in the same way as that sex 
of A. gemmata does from the male. 
152. Argynnis pales. 
Argynnis pales, Schiff., S. V., p. 177. 
A. sipora, Moore, P. Z.§8., 1874, p. 568, t. lxvi., fig. 11; 
Butt, Ind., p.. 139, t. xviii., fig. 72. 
A. baralacha, Moore, P. Z.8., 1882, p. 242, t. xi. 
It is quite impossible to separate the Himalayan form 
of this wide-ranging butterfly from those found in 
almost all the higher ranges of Turkestan, Siberia, and 
Kurope. I have a very large series of both sexes, 70 
males and 50 females, from many localities in Kurope 
and Asia, and, though the variation is very great, yet 1 
do not think that the forms which have been already 
separated as varieties are sufficiently constant, though 
the form described by Staudinger as var. generator, Stett. 
Ent. Zeit., 1886, p. 2385, which was found by Mr. Leech 
on the Deosai plateau of Kashmir, seems in both sexes 
very different from the form found in Kashmir, Lahoul, 
and Sikkim. I have in my collection seven females taken 
in one day in a single meadow in the Alps, no two of 
which are alike, and, as the majority of those I have 
from Lahoul are more like European specimens than 
the Central Asian form generator, I do not think 
they deserve a separate name. The only specimens I 
have from Sikkim are three bad ones brought by natives 
with A. altissima from Chumbi and Bhotan, where it no 
doubt occurs at great elevations.* 
158. Dichorragia nesimachus. 
Adolias nesimachus, Boisd., Cuv. Regne An. Ins., i, 
t. 149 bis fig. 1 (1886). 
Dichorragia nesimachus, Butt. Ind., ii., p. 141, t. xix., 
fig. 82, 3. 
* T have since learnt that the variety generator does not occur 
on the Deosai plains with the Himalayan form, but was taken on 
the Skorolah Ladak. 
