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blue ocelli, but the middle one is transformed into a lunula, 

 curved inside in the same way as is the case with the 

 Turkestan forms of the species. Another specimen, 

 having the same character of the submarginal markings 

 of the hindwing, presents other pecuUarities connecting it 

 in a striking way to cardinal, Gr.-Gr., from Buchara. All 

 the three red ocelli are well developed, surrounded by 

 heavy black rings and joined by black bars. The dark 

 markings of the primaries are also enlarged. This speci- 

 men is decidedly larger in size than any other of my 

 nicevillei. Not approving the system of giving special 

 names to accidental aberrations, I find it worth while to 

 make an exception for this interesting case of transition 

 between the Indian and Turkestan groups of P. delphiiis, 

 and confer the name of ab. cardinalina, nov. (Plate LIII, 

 fig- 3> S) to this butterfly, which can be discriminated 

 from the genuine cardinal only by the character of the 

 dark margin in the secondaries, and the absence of white 

 scabs in the red ocelli on the underside. 



I am glad to be able to publish a figure of a male speci- 

 men of alkinsoni (Plate LIII, fig. 4), known only by the 

 two original females. My three specimens from Pir-Panjal 

 settle completely the question of the two typical specimens 

 in the British Museum, as they were referred both to 

 Darjeeling and Pir-Panjal. The males agree closely with 

 the description of the females. The red filling of the 

 ocelli is less conspicuous on one of my two males ; it is 

 obliterated almost entirely in the upper ocellus, which 

 reminds one very much of subsp. stenosemus, Hour. 



Lieutenant A. Brownlow, R.A., has had the kindness to 

 transmit to me a fine female of nicevillei from Kishtwar 

 Mountains. I have obtained later a male, in very poor 

 condition of preservation, from the vicinity of Zoji-la. 

 Both specimens differ from the typical nicevillei by an 

 extreme development of red on the secondaries, and par- 

 ticularly by the thin black encircling of the ocelli. It may 

 be that these characters constitute a true local race. 



In the Western Ladak has been found a delphius form 

 belonging to the group of staudingeri, B. H. — hunza, Gr.-Gr, 

 The dark semi-transparent bands of the primaries are 

 shaped as in subsp. staudingeri, although they are not so 

 well marked. 



The secondaries have two subanal blue-centred ocelli 

 before the margin, the following markings having the 



