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20. Vanessa caschmirensis aesis Friihst. 

 1 ?, Arun Valley, 11,000 ft., 9/6/22 {N.). 



21. Vanessa iadakensis Moore. 



1 c?, Base Camp, 16,500 ft., 29/5/22 (L.). 

 1 (^, Pang La, 15,000 ft., 8/6/22 {L.). 

 1 $, Kharta Chu, 13,000 ft., 12/6/22 {N.). 

 1 c?, Phiing Chu, 11,000 ft., 15/6/22 {N.). 



* 21a. Polygonia interposita agnicula Moore. 



1899. Polygonia agnicula Moore, I.e., iv, p. 99. 



J905. Vanessa c-albnm r. agnicula Bing., I.e., i, p. 372. 



1912. F. {Polggonia) c-album agnicula Evans, List, I.e., 



p. 580. 

 1921. P. interposita agnicula Riley, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



(9), viii, p. 596. 



1 ?, Arun Valley, 11,000 ft., 9/6/22 (N.). 



1 c?, Arun Valley, 11,000 ft., 14/6/22 {N.). 



22. Argestina karta Riley. 



2 (J, 1 9, Pang La, 15,000-16,000 ft., 8/6/22 (L.). 



3 c?, Arun Valley, 11,000 ft., 9/6/22 {N.). 

 1 9, Chushar, 14,500 ft., 13/6/22 {L.). 



* 22a. Argestina nitida sp. nov. 

 (PI. XXXVII, figs. 6-8) 

 1 $, Pang La, 15,000-16,000 ft., 8/6/22 (L.). 



c?. Upjjerside, both icings : uniformly dark glossy brown with 

 greenish and purplish reflections in certain lights, the cilia light grey 

 with darker markings at the extremities of the veins. Fore-iving : no 

 trace of any area of modified scales, or submarginal line, the ocellus 

 present in area 5 but minute. Underside : markings arranged as 

 in waltoni and karta, but the warm chestnut brown of underside of 

 fore-wing is replaced by dull coppery, and the irrorated appearance 

 of the apical area is continued the whole length of the costa, and 

 the yellowish ring of the ocellus is barely discernible : on the hind- 

 wing, the three transverse wavy lines are completely lost in the 

 mottled dark brown and ochreous, and the postdiscal row of white 

 points is increased to six in number by the addition of a point in 

 area Ic. 



§. Exactly resembles the o both above and below, except for the 



