298 On Parantirrhoea marshalli, W.-M. 



smaller and to have smaller antlers, is a very much darker 

 animal all over than the Swedish, and it has a more blackish 

 face and blackish ears. As type for the new subspecies I 

 propose no. 8. 11. 22. 1 in Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., from 

 Aberfeldy. In winter pelage the whole face and the sides of 

 the head are blackish. The nose is sprinkled with whitish 

 tips to some hairs; especially on a spot above the rhinarium, 

 these light-tipped hairs are more numerous, and the sides of 

 the head grizzled with longer huffish tips to the hairs. On 

 the forehead the black ground-colour dominates, but is 

 somewhat sprinkled with buff tips. The ears are mixed black 

 and buff — more black at the tips, more buff basal ly. The 

 neck and the back are dark brown, the visible parts of the 

 hair being blackish with rings of a rich buff, sometimes 

 inclining to rufous. The basal, not visible, parts of the hair 

 are dark grey, much darker than in Swedish specimens. The 

 sides of the body are not quite so dark as the back, the ground- 

 colour being somewhat paler and the rings paler buff. The 

 throat behind the white chin-spot is buffish, lighter in the 

 middle. The lower side of the neck is buffish grey, not 

 coarsely sprinkled as in Swedish specimens. The lower side 

 of the breast is grey, darker and less buffish than in Swedish 

 specimens. The black nose-mark and the speculum as usual, 

 although the latter seems to be smaller than in Swedish 

 specimens. The fur all over the body is not so long nor so 

 coarse as in Swedish specimens. 



In summer pelage the British Roe-deer has a black patch 

 on the forehead surrounded by rufous and somewhat sprinkled 

 with the same colour. The ears have broad blackish margins 

 and are otherwise mixed with buffish. The upper neck and 

 back are very rich rufous, the sides of the body somewhat 

 paler, and the lower parts still lighter; the throat behind the 

 white chin-spot pale buff, the belly almost whitish. 



XXXIV. — Description of the Indian Butterfly Parantirrhcea 

 marshalli, W.-M. {female). By Lieut.-Colonel N. Man- 

 dees, F.E.S. 



The male was desciibed by Wood-Mason in 1880 from a 

 male specimen captured by Mr. Harold Ferguson in the 

 Ashamboo Hills in May. The female is not noticed by 

 Bingham (' Butterflies of India/ vol. i. 1905), and a descrip- 

 tion would therefore appear to be necessary, as it is evidently 

 unknown. 



