LEPIDOPTERA. 5 



brown marginal band ; a light narrow dusky-brown lunular streak at end of the cell in the 

 fore wing. Underside : fore wing pale yellow ; costal border and outer margin greenish- 

 yellow ; a dusky black-speckled lunular spot at end of the cell, and discal row of indistinct 

 speckled spots : hind wing greenish-yellow, with darker green speckles ; an ochreous-brown 

 patch at end of cell, enclosing a white triangular mark and small spot ; a discal series of 

 dusky-brown dentate spots. Antennae and legs reddish. 



Expanse If inch. 



Sab. North of Changla (17,000 feet), Ladak. 



Differs from C. eogene, Feld. (Novara Reise, Lep. t. 27, fig. 7), in being smaller, and in 

 haying the wings, including the cilia, pale chrome-yellow instead of orange-yellow ; the dis- 

 cocellular mark is less prominent and lunular, not oval ; the broad marginal band is of a much 

 yellower colour. On the underside, the discocellular mark on the fore wing is also lunular and 

 is not pale-centred. 



Sub-PamUy PA PILIONIN&. 



17. PARNASSITTS CHAELTONIUS. Plate I, fig. 3, ? . 



P. charltonius, Gray, Catal. Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. i, p. 77, pi. 12, fig. 7, $ , (1852). 

 Rab. Kharbu (13,000 feet), Ladak. 



18. PAUNASSITTS JACQUEMONTH. 



P.jacquemontii,'So\aA., Spec. Gen. Lep. i, p. 400 (1836). Blanchard, Jacq. Voy. dans 1'Inde, iv, 

 Ins. p. 16, t. 1, figs. 3, 4. Gray, Catal. Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. i, pi. 12, figs. 1, 2. 



S. North of Changla (17,000 feet), Ladak. 



Sub-Family LYC(ENIN&. 



19. POLTOMMATTJS KASHGHAEENSIS. Plate 1, fig. 7. 

 Polyommatus kashgharensis, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 230. 



Male. Upperside pale blue, with narrow black exterior-marginal line ; costal edge white. 

 Cilia white, with dark inner -border. Underside slightly pearly-grey, base of wings pale 

 metallic green : fore wing with a white-bordered black spot in middle of the cell, and a 

 curved discal series of five spots ; a very indistinct spot at end of the cell, and a less distinct 

 marginal series of spots : hind wing with three sub-basal and a curved discal series of six 

 small white-circled black spots ; an indistinct spot at end of the cell, and marginal row of 

 spots with slightly ochreous interspaced upper dentated line. 



Expanse If inch. 



Sab. Yangihissdr, Eastern Turkestan, April 1874. 



Allied to P. semiargus. 



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