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Type : Argesldna. waltoni Elwes. {Callerehia tvaltoni 

 Elwes, P.Z.S., p. 482, PL 36, f. 14 {^), f. 15 (?), 1906. 



22. Argestina karta, sp. nov. 

 (PI. XXXVI, fig. 11 c^, fig. 12 ?.) 

 1 c^, 2 ?, 30/7/21 ; 1 ^, 31/7/21, Kliarta, 12,000 ft. {B.). 



(J. Upperside, both wings : very dark brown, almost black, the 

 cilia paler, greyish. Fore-wing with the marginal area slightly 

 lighter, a minute white-pupilled ocellus in area 5 and a very indis-- 

 tinct submarginal dark line from costa to about vein 3, the ripples 

 on the area of modified scales very inconspicuous. Underside, fore- 

 v/ing : warm chestnut brown, with a darker transverse shade just 

 beyond the cell, the costa, apex, hind margin and torniis darker, 

 grey brown, the apex, as far as ocellus, irrorated with dark ochreous ; 

 the ocellus black, reaching from vein 4 almost to vein 7, white 

 pupilled, ringed with pale yellowish. Hind-wing : dark grejash, 

 crossed by a basal, a discal and a submarginal very Avavy darker 

 line, and with a postdiscal series of 5 white points, the area from 

 base to discal transverse line darker than the discal area, the whole 

 wing densely sprinkled with very dark brown, and with ochreous, 

 the latter more particularly just beyond discal transverse line. 



$. Up2]erside, both loings : much lighter brown than in the ^. 

 Fore-wings : the greater part of the v/ing, except the margins (more 

 particularly inner margin), suffused warm chestnut brov/n, which 

 renders the rather la.rger ocellus and the submarginal line very 

 much more conspicuous. Undverside : as in the ^, except that the 

 whole tone of the markings is rather lighter. 



Length of fore-wing, (^ 23 mm. ; $ 22 mm. 



Besides the type species {waltoni Elwes) and the species 

 described above, the genus includes inconslans South, with 

 its subspecies gyala Evans, and a fourth species obtained 

 with waltoni by the Tibet Expedition in 1904.* 



to be justifiable. Although very aberrant in fades these do not 

 seem structurally separable from Callerebia. 

 * Argestina nitida, sp. nov. See Appendix II. 



