the genus CEineis. 459 
most part too scattered and fragmentary to be readily 
utilised by the student of to-day. 
We have excluded the following species from our 
arrangement of the genus :— 
Chionobas stretchii, W. H. Edw. (Trans. Am. Ent. 
Soc., iii., p. 192, 1870), which is the same as the Hip- 
parchia ridingsit of the same author (Proc. Ent. Soe. 
Phil., iv., p. 201, 1865), andis figured by Strecker (Lep., 
pl. iv., fig. 6, 2, 1873), is perhaps best treated as an 
aberrant CHneis, since the balance of its characters seem 
to be rather with that genus than with Satyrus. It has 
the antenne and something of the facies of an Gineis, 
but the cell of the fore wing is comparatively wider, the 
lower surface of the hind wing wants the long upright 
hair, the intermediate tibie in the male are about half 
as long as the tarsi, and there seems to be a very feeble 
thickening of the basal portion of the median vein; but 
it has not the facies, the strongly clubbed antenne, or 
the swollen base of the median vein found in typical 
Satyrus. It is true that its divergence both from (neis 
and Satyrus is as great as that of some other genera of 
Satyride from each other; but if a separate generic 
name is required for it, that of Neominois has been pro- 
vided by Scudder (Bulletin Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., ii., 
p. 241, 1875). 
Chionobas pumilus, Feld., Reise Novara, Lep., iii., 
p. 490, pl. lxix., figs. 6, 7, 1866, ¢; «b., Elwes, P. Z.S., 
1882, p. 404, pl. xxv., fig. 3; Gineis pumilus, Marsh. and 
de Nicé., Butt. Ind.,1., p. 238, pl. xv., fig. 37, 9; Gineis? 
(Satyrus ?) palearcticus, Ster., Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1889, 
p- 20; Gineis pumilus var. lama, Alphéraky, Rom. Mem. 
sur Lép., v., p. 80, 1889 ; Gineis pumilus var. iole, Leech, 
Butt. China, &c., p. 76, pl. xi., fig. 2, is unquestionably 
an Aulocera, Butl. (Ent. Mo. Mag., iv., p. 121). It 
possesses the peculiar wing-pattern and other characters 
proper to that genus, and, moreover, has the same type 
of clasp-form which is found in at least one species of 
Aulocera, and which is perhaps correlated to the wing- 
pattern found in that genus. Its superficial resemblance 
to Aulocera brahminus had already been remarked upon 
by Marshall and de Nicéville and Leech (l.c.). The 
type of this species was described from Ladak, where it 
is common on the dry plateaus at from 14,000 to 16,000 ft. 
I afterwards got specimens from the alpine valley of 
TRANS, ENT. SOC, LOND. 1893,—PaRT Iv. (DEC.) 21 
