100 ABARATHA. 



median. Also the following translucent spots : five apical ones, the upper 

 three elongate and approximate ; one at the end of the cell almost bifid, 

 with a dot on the costa above it ; four on the disc from the submedian to 

 the upper median, the second from above largest of all and adjoining that 

 at the end of the cell. Also one in the cell near the base. All these are 

 surrounded by blackish rings above and below. A blackish marginal line ; 

 cilia long, alternately black and whitish. Hindwing rusty-ochreous, with a 

 marginal dark line, and a discal, a cellular, and a submarginal row of dusky 

 spots but no translucent ones. Below paler ochreous, without any rufous 

 tinge, the translucent spots set in small blackish patches; a submarginal 

 line of joined dusky spots, and a dark streak near the base from the sub- 

 median to the median veins. Hindwing with a black transverse streak at 

 the end of the cell, a fainter one near the base of the cell, and a circle of 

 large and conspicuous black spots nine in all round the disc, whereof two 

 are between the costal and the subcostal and two between the median and 

 the submedian veins ; whitish hairs at the extreme base. Body dull 

 ferruginous above, whitish below. Female unknown. 



Differs from A. ransonnetii, Felder, its nearest ally, in the absence of all 

 white on the disc below. In colouring it is somewhat intermediate between 

 A . ransonnetii and the curious A . agama of Sikkim, which seems to mimic 

 Argynnis isaea. 



One male, Bagheswar on the Sarju, 3,500 ft." [Kumaon] . (Doherty, 



I.e.) 



150. ABARATHA SYRICHTHUS, FELDER. 



Pterygospidea syrichthus, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. iii, p. 530, 

 n. 938, pi. Ixxii, figs. 22, 23 (1867). 



Pyrgus agama, Moore, MS., Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C., vol. i, p. 249, 

 n. 556, pi. vii, figs, i, larva ; la, pupa (1857). 



The Latin in which this species is described is so very obscure that I 

 have thought it better to quote it in full instead of giving a translation 

 of it, as without examples of the species it is very difficult to translate it 

 correctly. 



" $ . Alse ciliis latiusculis, fuscis, albo intercisis, supra omnes fuscae, 

 anticae maculis duabus cellulse, totidem interioribus basalibus, lunula 

 disco-cellulari, maculis submarginalibus in serie fracta aliisque antemargi- 

 nalibus seriatis minoribus albidis, macula cellulari excisa, quatuor 

 interioribus (secunda inter ramum medianum primum et secundum majore) 

 tribusque congestis subapicalibus subhyalinis, in certo situ argenteo 

 micantibus, posticae macula cellulari, duabus anticis, aliis inaequalibus 

 proxime pone cellulam, dein septem submarginalibus aliisque antemar- 

 ginalibus in serie margini parallela albidis. 



Alae anticae subtus pallidiores, maculis iisdem sed majoribus, basi 

 #laucescente, posticae albae, ad basin glaucescentes, margine antico fusco 

 atomato, externo excise fusco, maculis duabus anticis, virgula saepe 



