1874.] LEPIDOPTERA OF CASHMERE. 267 



15. Melanitis ismene, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 26. f. A, B. 



16. Melanitis bela, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 223. 

 This is a very distinct species, and is confined to the N.W. Hima- 

 layas. 



Subfam. Acr^ein^e. 



17. Pareba vesta, Fabr. ; Donov. Ins. t. 30. f. 1. 

 Acrcea anomala, Kollar, Hiigel's Kasch. iv. pi. 3. f. 3, 4. 



Subfam. Nymphalin^e. 



18. Atella phalanta, Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. i. t. 21. f. 1, 2. 



19. Argynnis childreni, Gray, Lep. Nepal, t. 11. 



20. Argynnis kamala, Moore, Catal. Lep. E. I. C. i. p. 156. 



21. Argynnis jainadeva, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, t. 30. f. 1. 



22. Argynnis rudra, Moore, Catal. E. I. C. i. p. 157. 



23. Argynnis niphe, Linn. ; Cram. Pap. Exot. t. 14. f. B-E. 



24. Argynnis iss^a, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 11. 



25. Argynnis cashmirensis, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 4.) 

 Male and female. Upperside bright ferruginous, markings black 



and very prominent : fore wing with the costa, base, and hind margin 

 brown ; three lunular marks within and an outward curved streak 

 closing the cell ; a dentate lunule below the cell ; a transverse discal 

 confluent zigzag series of spots ; a suffused subapical patch ; a submar- 

 ginal recurved row of broad oval spots ; a marginal rowof dentate spots, 

 and narrow exterior line which is angled on the veins : hind wing with 

 the base brown, indistinctly streaked with black, and bordered by 

 a distinct black zigzag lunular band ; the outer portion marked as in 

 fore wing ; cilia alternate white and black. 



Underside : fore wing fulvous, apex and exterior border streaked 

 with yellow ; markings narrower and less defined ; anterior spots in 

 submarginal and marginal rows with white dots ; a black patch at 

 base of hind margin : hind wing dark ferruginous ; disk clouded with 

 yellow ; two small pearly-white streaks at base of wing, one above 

 the other below the cell ; a small black narrow streak at base and a 

 white-bordered black spot within the cell ; a curved median trans- 

 verse band with irregular black angulated borders, composed of three 

 pearly-white portions and yellow intervening spaces, the former dis- 

 posed thus — (1) between the costal and subcostal, (2) at end of 

 the cell and divided by the discocellular, (3) between the first and 

 second median, the first and third being much constricted ; a sub- 

 marginal series of six white-centred black spots ; a marginal row of 

 pearly-white quadrate spots, each well separated by a dark ferrugi- 

 nous streak, and bordered interiorly with a narrow blackish dentate 

 lunule. Body above blackish brown, beneath and legs dark yellow. 



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