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the usual six outer-discal ocelli, and three fine marginal lines. No 

 discal oblique " male-mark " of modified black scales across the fore- 

 wing on the upperside as in L. schakra, KoUar, L. menava, Moore, 

 L. nasshreddini^ Staudinger, L. mceroides, Felder,* and L. majuscula, 

 Leech. Female. Uppeeside, both wings somewhat paler than in the 

 male. Forewing with the ferruginous markings of the male somewhat 

 more extensive and paler ; always with a considerable sized rounded spot 

 in the submedian interspace. Otherwise as in the male. 



In coloration and markings this species is hardly distinguishable 

 from L. schakra^ Kollar, but the absence of the "male- mark" will 

 differentiate it as regards that sex. The females of the two species 

 are almost precisely alike, unless the greater irregularity of the outer- 

 discal fuscous line on the underside of the hindwing in L. laurion be 

 sufficient to distinguish between them 5 but this feature in L, schakra 

 appears to be very inconstant. It is abundantly distinct from L. menava, 

 MoorOj and L. mceroides, Felder, in the male, those species have a very 

 broad and prominent " male-mark " which L. laurion lacks altogether ; 

 and on the underside of the hindwing of the former (the latter I 

 have not seen) the above-mentioned line is nearly even, not highly 

 zigzagged. 



This species is tha one referred to under " Amecera " mceroides, 

 Felder, in Butt. India, p. 181, from Pangi. I subsequently examined the 

 type of the latter in lh\ Felder's collection in Vienna, and as it has a 

 broad sex-mark, the present species is evidently distinct, L. laurion 

 entirely lacking it. Mr. P. W. Mackinnon has obtained numerous 

 specimens in August from the Gonas Pass to the north of Mussoorie 

 towards the Thibetian frontier. In Paugij to the north of Dalhousie, it 

 occurs in July and August. It is a butterfly of high elevations only, 

 and appears to be confined to the outer borders of the Central Asian 

 tableland at the western end of the Himalaj'^as. 



Since the above was in type, Mr. G. F. Hampson of the British 

 Museum (Natural History), after examining the types of Z.. mcerula 

 and L. mceroides in the collection of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, has 

 sent me the following interesting notes with sketches : — " L> mcerida 

 is a female, the forelegs undoubtedly feminine ; consequently there is 



* The Russian writers give L, mceroides and L. nasshreddini as syuocyms of L. menavas, 

 to whicsh 1 would add L. mterula. 



