1865.] FROM THE NORTH-WEST HIMALAYAS. 495 
55. Precis 1puita, Cram. Pap. t. 209. f. C, D. 
Rather abundant in the Himalayas. 
56. Precis HARA, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E.1.C. i. pl. 3a. f. 1. 
An Himalayan species. Not so abundant as the preceding. Ge- 
nerally seen on the banks of streams. 
57. ATELLA PHALANTA, Drury, Ins. i. t. 21. f. 1, 2. 
Tolerably abundant up to 8000 feet elevation. 
58. Laocona Hyppocta, Cram. Pap. t. 220. f. C, D. 
59. ARGYNNIS NIPHE, Linn. (Cram. Pap. t. 14. f. C-E; Hiigel’s 
Kaschmir, iv. pl. 13. f. 12). 
Tolerably abundant in certain localities, 6000 to 8000 feet in the 
Himalayas. The males seem much more abundant than the females. 
60. ArRGYNNIS Iss“A, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 11. 
Very abundant in the Himalayas, 5000 to 8000 feet. At all seasons 
of the year, even in winter, when snow lies deep on sheltered slopes, 
this insect may be seen on open sunny sites. 
61. ARGYNNIS CHILDRENI, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, pl. 11. 
An Himalayan species, frequenting grassy slopes near woods, open 
copses, and gardens, 7000 to 10,000 feet elevation. Flight bold 
and very fast. Affects Composite aud Crucifere. Not avery com- 
mon species. 
62. ARGYNNIS KAMALA, Moore, Catal. Lepid. Mus. E. I. C. i. 
p- 156. 
Abundant throughout a tract of 120 miles, at an altitude of 6000 
to 10,000 feet, in the summer and autumn months, in the Simla 
district and Lower Kunawur. It affects open glades and the borders 
of forests, pitching on low shrubs, brambles, and banks of thyme, 
thistle, scabious-heads, &c. 
63. ARGYNNIS JAINADEVA, n. sp. (PI. XXX. fig. 1.) 
Male. Upperside rich fulvous; markings black ; fore wing with 
four discoidal streaks, the fourth double and closing the cell; a 
transverse discal series of narrow lunulated spots irregularly disposed, 
but each joined to the other by being continued in a line on the vein; 
a small suffused spot before the apex ; a second discal series of round 
spots, a submarginal row of lunules, and a double marginal line. 
Hind wing with a double mark closing the cell ; an irregular trans- 
verse discal series of lunules; a second discal series of three round 
spots and an upper intermediate dot; a submarginal row of well- 
defined lunules, and a double marginal line; cilia pale fulvous yel- 
low. Underside—fore wing pale fulvous, greenish yellow apically ; 
markings as above, except that those at the apex and the margina 
