52 LEPIDOFTERA IN DIG A. 



Type. — C. Pamphilus (Linn.). 



Tliis genus embraces a group of European and N. Asian butterflies, -whicli are 

 intermediate between typical Maniola [Jurtina) — the males of whicb possess an 

 androconial patch on the forewing — and Coenonympha, distinguishable by the above 

 characters. It also includes the well-known G. Typlion (Davus, Fabr.) and its allies. 



CHORTOBIUS PULCHRA (Plate 104, fig. 3, 3a, <J ? ). 



Epinephele 'pulchra, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. Ill, p. 491 (1867), ^. Marshall and de Nic6ville, 

 Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 209 (1883). 



Imago. — "Male. Uj^perside as imlchella. Forewing with the fulvous patch 

 less bright, divided by the fuscous veins, and cut through beyond the middle 

 by an obsolete fuscous angulate streak, within which it is irrorated with 

 fuscous ; the margin of the ground-colour beyond wider than in piilchella, the 

 blackish spot larger. Hinclwing irrorated with fulvous in the disc. Underside as 

 in indchella, but the patch of the forewing more restricted and brighter fulvous, 

 divided beyond the middle by the streak of the upperside, but obscure ferruginous 

 and more distinct, and the ocellus larger " (Felder). Male. Larger than this 

 sex of typical Neoza. Upperside similar, except that the brownish-fulvous patch 

 on the forewing is duller and is less apparent, it is more restricted within the discal 

 area, and thus leaving broader brown margins, it is also crossed by an indistinct 

 angulate slightly-diffused brown discal line ; the subapical black spot is also larger. 

 On the underside, the greyish-brown borders on the forewing are also broader, the 

 discal an gulate-line distinct, the submarginal line is sinuous, and the ocellus much 

 larger. 



Female. Upperside duller fulvous than in Neoza, the discal angulate brown 

 line more distinct and difi'used. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, cJ ? If to 1} inch. 



Habitat. — N.-W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Dr. Felder gives " Kunawur ; Pangi, Bisahir, and Chini" for 

 this species. " Mr. L. de Niccville took several males at Dras and Tashgam, Ladak, 

 in June ; Mr. E. Ellis took it in Pangi in July ; Mrs. Bazett obtained it in Kashmir 

 at Baba Marishi, at 8400 feet elevation in June, at Katabal at 10,000 feet, and at 

 Goolmurg at 9400 feet in July. Major J. Biddulph took a pair, male and female, 

 on the Shandur plateau in northern Kashmir. Mr. A. Graham Young took a 

 single female in the Kulu Valley " (Butt. Ind. i. 210). Specimens in our collection 

 from Col. A. M. Lang, were obtained " below Rupin Pass, North, at 12,600 feet, in 

 September," a male also, taken by Capt. R. Bayne Reid at Goolmurg, and a male 

 from " Tashgam in Dras Valley, Ladak," taken by Major H. B. Hellard. 



