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slightly-defined blactish angular line, and beyond a lunular subraarginal line; and 

 between them is a large prominent subapical black spot with minute white pupil and 

 pale outer ring. Hindiring pale cinereous viuaceous-brcuTi, mottled with fine darker 

 brown strigge ; crossed by a subbasal and a discal curved angulated black line, and a 

 submarginal sinuous line, the two latter outwardly-bordered with whitish speckles. 



Female. Upperside somewhat paler glossy olivescent-brown. Foreioing with 

 a larger subapical black ocellus, with a distinct white pupil and pale ill-defined 

 ochreous outer ring, below which are also two ill-defined pale ochreous spots 

 between the medians. Underside with the broad borders of the forewing, and the 

 entire hindwing pale brownish-cinereous, finely mottled with delicate brown strigge. 

 Forewing with the disc pale bright fulvous; crossed by faint traces of an inner 

 discal fulvous-brown angular line and a brown lunular submarginal line, the white 

 pupilled ocellus with very pale outer ring. Hindtving crossed by a subbasal and a 

 discal blackish angulated line, and sinuous submarginal line, the two latter with, pale 

 outer border. Bodij beneath pale brownish-cinereous ; legs above brown. 



Expanse, ^ 2, ? 2f inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas ; Afghanistan ; Beluchistan. 



Distribution. — The type specimen, a female, is recorded by Dr. Felder (Reise 

 Nov. 494), as having been taken at " Chalichang in Ladak." A " female was also 

 taken by Major J. Biddulph. on the Shandur plateau in Northern Kashmir; a male 

 was taken by Lieut. H. Whistler- Smith at Sher Darwaza near Kabul during the late 

 Afghan War ; and again quite recently by Colonel A. M. Lang, in the neighbourhood 

 of Quetta, at Kawas, on a rocky peak 8500 feet altitude, in September." (Butt. Ind. i. 

 185.) Mr. J. H. Leech obtained the female at Skardo, Baltistan, at 8000 feet eleva- 

 tion, in July, 1887. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 102, fig. 3 represents the male from 

 Kabul, and fig. 3a a female from the Shandur plateau, bothkiudly lent by the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, and Mr. L. de Niceville. 



Genus MANIOLA. 



Maniola, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. i. pp. l.'J2, 170 (1801). Scudder, Amer. Acad. A. and Sci. 



Boston, 1875, p. 211. 

 E^iinephele* Euhner, Yerz. bek. Schmett. p. 59 (181 fi). H. Schseffer, Schmett. Eur. i. p. 81 



(1843). Butler, Ent. Mo. ISlag. 1868, p. 194 ; Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. G4 (1868). 

 Epinepldla, Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B.!M. p. 7 (1850). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing short, broad, subtriangular ; costa arched, apex 

 obtuse, exterior margin slightly oblique, posterior angle rounded ; subcostal, median, 



* Preoccupied by Epincphelus in 1801, for a genus of Fishes. 



