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marginal line, and the subapical black spot, as on the upperside. Eindwing ochreous- 

 cinereous, numerously covered with short blackish strigge and intervening speckles, 

 ■which are thickest disposed at the base ; veins prominently vrhite lined ; crossed by 

 an indistinctly-defined angulated subbasal and a more distinct medial-discal excurved 

 angulated black line, the latter having a whitish outer border, and beyond is a sub- 

 marginal distinct black sinuous line. 



Female. Upperside slightly paler fulvous. Forewing with the base pale 

 cinereous purplish-brown, the outer border somewhat darker ; crossed by an inner 

 discal diffused blackish line, which is acutely angled outvs^ard on the upper median 

 veinlet, the line also extends along the subcostal and then sinuously and prominently 

 edges the dark outer border, thus enclosing a discal fulvous band, within which is 

 an upper and a lower black spot. Hindioing with the entire basal area and outer 

 border cinereous purplish-brown, enclosing a prominent fulvous medial-discal band, 

 which is edged with an inner and outer black sinuous line. Underside. Foreiving 

 somewhat paler ; markings as in the male, except that the discal line is more distinct, 

 and the submarginal line more sinuous, there being also two black spots of the same 

 size as those above. Hindtving also somewhat paler, with the ti'ansverse black lines 

 more acutely defined, the subbasal line more distinctly angled within the cell, and 

 both the discal and outer sinuous line being pale-bordered externally. Body cine- 

 reous-brown ; collar, side of palpi, and legs beneath cinereous-white ; antennae cine- 

 reous-brown, tipt wilt ochreous, with a rather stout short club, the tip being obtuse. 



Expanse, S If to If, ? 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Lahul ; Spiti ; Deosi Plains, Stakpila Pass, N. Kashmir. 



DisTRiBDTiON. — Dr. Felder (Eeise Nov. 494) gives "Lahul and Spiti" as the 

 localities of the type specimens. Under this species, a specimen of the female is 

 recorded in " Second Yarkund Mission," Lep. p. i., as having been taken by the late 

 Dr. r. Stoliczka at Leh in September. 



Major H. B. Hellard records it in his "MS. Notes " as having been taken on the 

 " south side of Stakpila Pa ss in the upper part of the Boorzil Valley, North Kashmir, 

 in July, 1873," but whether these specimens of Major Hellard's and those above 

 noted from Leh refer to Eilberni, as here defined, we are unable to certify. Mr. J. 

 H. Leech obtained many specimens of both sexes in the Deosi plains N.-E. of 

 Kashmir, at 13,000 feet, in August, 1887 ; others were taken by Mr. McArthur in 

 the Chonging Valley, 15-17,000 feet elevation in July. Mr. L. de Niceville (Butt. 

 Ind. 190), under this species, records " two females taken by Major J. Biddulph at 

 Gilgit in August." Neither of these two specimens, which are now before me for 

 examination, agree with true Hiihcrni. One of them, certainly, is not this species — 

 it is a larger insect, with very much paler discal band on both wings, and is two 

 and a quarter inches in expanse. 



