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Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent bronzy-brown. Cilia alternated with 

 white. Forewing with an inner-discal short broad dusky-black glandular fascia 

 extending within the cell, which is clothed with moderately-short broad slightly 

 serrate-tipt scales, and long foliate acutely serrated-tipt scales, but no androconia ; 

 crossed by a medial-discal series of creamy-white or ochreous-yellow spots, which 

 are somewhat short and small, a spot being always present (and sometimes an 

 incipient narrow streak) diverging to the costa beyond the cell. Bindwing with a 

 similar-coloured medial-discal band. Underside paler olivescent bronzy-brown. 

 Forewing with the costal and apical border indistinctly mottled with pale-edged 

 blackish strigse, the discal band creamy-white or ochreous-yellow, broad, its lower 

 portion continuous, the divergent costal portion entire and continued to the edge ; 

 subapical black spot with white pupil more or less prominent. Hindwing more or 

 less densely mottled with black strigge, the strigse being more or less edged with 

 cinereous ; the base tinged with green ; the submarginal lunular line irregular and 

 diffused. 



Female. Upperside with the transverse band as in male, but somewhat broader. 

 Underside as in the male. Collar and side of palpi, ochreous-white ; legs brown. 



Expanse, 2f to 3 inches. 



Caterpillar. — " Colour probably black, but it is so very thickly clothed with short 

 bright-yellow hairs that it is almost impossible to see what its ground-colour really is ; 

 head and legs black. Feeds on wild blue Iris." 



Chkysalis. — " Attached to the centre of a leaf by the tail, and a bright-yellow 

 thread across the pupa, head upwards, like a LycEenid. Colour shining olive-brown ; 

 head, spines, and tail black ; a white patch crossed by an irregular black band upon 

 each side of the thorax ; a circular yellow spot on each shoulder ; on each side of the 

 dorsal segments is an irregular white mark. The colours, very vivid in the living 

 pupa, fade rapidly upon the death of the insect. The imago emerges in a fortnight." 

 (A. Graham Young.) 



Habitat. — N.-W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — This species is the commonest of the group, aud according to 

 Col. A. M. Lang (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1868, 246) " abounds in the Simla and Kunawur 

 districts of the N.-W. Himalayas during the rainy season, from July to October, 

 chiefly on grassy slopes and in fields near woods, also in open woods ; from the 

 outer spurs overlooking the Indian plains for 200 miles into the interior of the moun- 

 tain ranges towards the treeless regions of Spiti and Tibet." Major H. B. Hellard 

 obtained it in " Simla, Masuri, Pangi in Busahu', aud in Kashmir, from June to 

 October." (MS. notes.) Major J. W. Yerbury (P. Z. S. 1886, 357) records it as 

 "common at Murree, August and September; Atabul, 9000 feet; Thundiani, Sep- 

 tember." In Kulu, Mr. A. Graham Young writes, " Not uncommon in its peculiar 



