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attenuated end and feather-tip. Hhulwmg crossed by a discal curved narrow- 

 fulvous macular band, the spots being elongated, narrow, and with somewhat 

 blackish edges. Underside. Forewing with the basal cell and discal area fulvous, 

 paling to ochreous below the costa ; costal border, the outer border, and base of 

 posterior border brownish-cinereous mottled with blackish strigae ; inner line of the 

 discal band indistinct except at its costal end, its outer line sinuous ; subapical black 

 spot with white pupil. Hindiving pale brownish-cinereous, thickly mottled with 

 blackish strigae ; crossed by a wavy subbasal and a somewhat angulated blackish 

 discal line, the interspace between them forming a darker baud, with its inner and 

 outer edge broadly bordered with whitish-cinereous ; submarginal sinuous black 

 line distinct. 



Female. Upperside. Forciving with the discal fulvous band entire, somewhat 

 broader and slightly paler, its sinuous inner and outer edge darkly defined, subapical 

 black spots large. Hindiving with the discal fulvous band also entire, broader and 

 "with less sinuous outer edge. Underside as in male, except that both wings are 

 paler ; markings the same. 



Expanse, c? ? 2f inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. Himalayas. 



This species is nearest allied to the European congener K. Erythia, Hiibner. 



DiSTBiBTJTiON. — The type specimen was " taken by Major J. Biddulph, on the 

 Shandur Plateau, in Northern Kashmir" (Butt. Ind. 189.) A male, labelled 

 " Gilgit," is in the collection of Mr. L. de Mceville. 



Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate 102, fig. 2 represents the Gilgit 

 male, and fig. 2a the type female, both of which have been kindly lent for this pur- 

 pose by Mr. L. de Niceville. 



KANETISA PIMPLA (Plate 102, figs. 3, 3a, c? ? ). 



Satyrus Pimpla, Felder, Eeise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 494, pi. 69, figs. 10, II (1867), ? . Butler, Catal. 



Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 60 (1868). 

 Eipparchia Pimpla, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 185 (1883) $ ? . 



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

 white. Forewing with a black subapical spot, sometimes minutely pupilled with white 

 and with an obsolescent pale iris ; with a broad short inner-discal ill-defined dusky- 

 black glandular patch, which is clothed with claviform scales with deep jagged-pointed 

 tip, some underlying shorter fusiform scales, interspersed'by several long slender an- 

 droconia with attenuated end and feather-tip. Underside. Forewing pale cinereous 

 vinaceous-brown, the lower part of the cell and middle of the disc ferruginous, 

 leaving the costa, outer border and posterior margin broadly brown ; the costal 

 border and upper part of cell mottled with darker strigge ; crossing the disc is a 



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