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apex clouded, the outer border defined by a submarginal slender dark-brown line ; 

 across the disc is a slender very ill-defined brown angular line, which is obsolescent 

 posteriorly ; the ocellus prominently black, with white pupil, pale fulvous ring, and 

 a brown outer ring. Hindwing indistinctly flecked with delicate brown speckled- 

 strigse ; across the disc is an angulate wavy dark brown line and an even submarginal 

 line, both with an outer white boi'der ; between them is a series of three small 

 prominent black ocelli, one of which is situated between the radial and subcostal, 

 the next between the lower medians, and the other between the latter and the sub- 

 median veinlet but nearer to the outer margin of the wing, each ocellus with a white 

 pupil, white ring, and then an outer brown ring ; sometimes there is also a minute 

 ocellule present between the subcostals. 



Female. Upperside somewhat paler. Forewing with the fulvous area also 

 paler and confined more towards the apex ; across the disc is a more or less ill- 

 defined slightly- angulate brown line ; the subapical black spot slightly paler ringed, 

 and a smaller spot, also, sometimes present between the upper medians. Hindwing 

 with the discal line and ocelli of the underside indistinctly visible. Underside 

 as in the male, except that on the forewing the lower black spot is sometimes present, 

 and on the hindwing the upper ocellus is either absent or very minute. Bodij 

 beneath pale greyish brown ; collar, side of palpi, and legs beneath white ; antennae 

 brown, annulated with white and tipped with ochreous. Expanse 2 to 2f inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. Himalayas (? Kabul). 



DiSTEiiiUTiON. — According to Colonel A. M. Lang (P. Z. S. 1865, 502) " this is 

 a Tibetan and Spiti insect, affecting the dry hot summer of the rainless region of the 

 Chinese frontier. On a hot June or July day, these sober insects may be seen Slitting 

 about the stony hillsides, 9000 to 12,000 feet altitude — hill-sides where the 

 GraminacetB are scarce and brown, and grey Artemisife and Ephedra form the prin- 

 cipal vegetation. They do not occur in the moister and more wooded regions of the 

 Himalayas ; but first appear on the confines of Upper Kunawur, in Spiti, and the 

 Chinese provinces of Gughe and Nari Khorsum, Tibet," and in his MS. Notes 

 records its capture on the road from ' Pangi to Tibet in July,' and at Rogi in 

 September and October." The localities given by Dr. Felder (R. Nov. iii., 491) for 

 his " Roxane " are " Kumaon, Spiti, Losar, Ladak, Kargil." The figure given by the 

 authors of the " Butterflies of India," referred to above, is stated to be from a 

 specimen taken in Kabul by Lieut. H. Whistler-Smith. 



MANIOLA LATISTIGMA (Plate 103, figs. 2, 2a cJ ? ). 



Epineplide Roxane, Butler, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 405 (nee Eelder). 



Eirinephtl e Davendra, var. Roxane (part), Swinhoe, Trau."?. Eut. Soc. 1885, p. 338. 



Larger than typical M. Davendra. Male. Upperside. Foreivitig with the 



