the Rhojmlocera of the Mf. Everest 1921 Expedition. 471 



23. Paroeneis grandis, sp, nov. 

 (PI. XXXVI, fig. 10.) 



2 ^, Kharta, W. of Mt. Everest, 12,000 ft., 30/7/21 (B.). 



(5*. Upperside, both wings : rich bright fulvous, the hind margin 

 (broadly), and the veins black; cilia light ochreous, broadly flecked 

 with black at the extremities of the veins. Fore-toing : costal 

 area suffused blackish, a black spot in area 5 centrally in the centre 

 of a paler ochreous field, which is continued in a paler band inter- 

 rupted at the veins, to inner margin. Hind-iving : a narrow 

 transverse paler band crosses wing just within the black marginal 

 border, the dark spots on cilia much smaller than on forje-wing. 

 Underside : fore-wing pale ochreous, the broad discal band paler, 

 not interrupted at the veins in one specimen, costal, apical, and 

 hind marginal areas grey with numerous short darker striations (the 

 type), interrupted at 2, 3, and 4 in the others. On the hind-icing 

 the outer edge of the black basal area is extremely sinuous through- 

 out its length and bordered by a narrow pale band (1-1 "5 mm.). 

 Beyond this, the whole wing surface heavily mottled with black, 

 dark grey, and brown, through which and midway between hind 

 margin and the pale transverse band, runs a very sinuous, inter- 

 rupted broad black discal line ; veins blue grej^ 



Length of fore-wing, 26-27 mm. 



Nearest P. bicolor, but readily separated from all other 

 members of the genus by the richness and uniformity of 

 the fulvous coloration of upperside, the blackness of the 

 margins, its size, and the width of the pale band of the 

 underside of the hind-wing, which approaches that of, but 

 remains narrower than in P. bicolor Stand. 



24. Paroeneis bicolor Stand. 



1911. Oeneis pumilus bicolor Friihst., I.e., ix, p. 311, 



1912. Satyrns {Paraeneis) pumikts bicolor Evans, I.e., 

 p. 562. 



1 ?, Nyenyam, 13,000 ft., 19/7/21; 1 ^, 27/7/21; 1 <^. 

 2/8/21, Rongshar Valley, 14,000 ft. (F/.). 



25. Paroeneis sikkimensis Stand. 



1893. Paroeneis sikkimensis Moore, I.e., ii, p. 38. 



1905. Oeneis pumilus race sikkimensis Bing., I.e., i. p. 129. 



