Zepidoptera of the Altai Mo^tntains. 357 



(Eneis hora, Gr.-Gr,, Hor, Ent. Ross., xxii, p. 307 ; Rom. 

 Mem., iv, t. XX, 1, and var. ? vcrdanda, Stgr., Iris, x, p. 349. 

 (PI. XIV, fig. 1 ^ 6 ?.) 



This is a very little known insect, which was originally 

 described from two males taken by Grum-Grshimailo 

 in the Altai Pamir; these types are now in ray 

 possession. It is a near ally of hoo^e, which it repre- 

 sents in the high mountain ranges of Central Asia. A 

 form of it described by Staudinger in Iris (vol. x, p. 349) 

 as vcrdanda, is common in the Thianshan, the Borochoro 

 Mountains (part of the same range), and in the Kuruk-tagh 

 Mountains near Korla in Eastern Turkestan. I also 

 received from Herr Tancre three males and two females 

 (the latter marked 'noma var.' PI. XIV, fig. $) from 

 Tchiuffistai in the South-Western Altai, which I cannot 

 distinguish from hora. 



The principal, if not the only difference, which I am 

 able to see between the types of hora from the Pamir, 

 and the twenty-one other specimens in my collection 

 (three of which are from Korla) is that in the latter 

 the band of the hind-wing below ends at the costa in 

 a more or less narrowed and pointed apex, instead of 

 coming right up to the costa in a broad band. Otherwise 

 the two forms are practically identical, and differ from 

 the Asiatic form of horc which I have above described in 

 having no male mark. The clasps of hora and vcrdanda 

 seem identical and want the large tooth near the middle of 

 the upper edge found in clasps of the &orc type. The ocelli, 

 which are not very conspicuous, vary as in other species, 

 two being the normal number on the fore-wing and one on 

 the hind-wing. In colour they are brown, often more fulvous 

 than the Altai hore which is blackish, whilst fulla is grey. 

 And the females, especially those from Tchingistai, are 

 paler fulvous than the males, whereas in hoox and fulla the 

 two sexes are nearly or quite the same colour. The $ 

 figured is from Tchingistai (ex. Tancre), and differs from the 

 types of ho7'a from the Altai now in my collection in 

 having no ocellus on hind-wing above, and being rather less 

 fulvous in colour. I figure it to show that the character 

 principally relied on by Staudinger when describing 

 vcrdanda — namely the shape of the band on the hind-wing 

 below — is inconstant, and am quite ready to admit that 

 neither hora nor vcrdanda are specifically distinct from horc. 



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