54 LEPIDOPTERA IJVDICA. 



CHORTOBITJS PULCHELLA (Plate 105, figs. 1, U,^ ? ). 



EjpinepTiele pulchella, Feldor, Keise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 490, pi. 69, fig. 16 (1867), c?. Moore, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 566. Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 208, pi. xv. fig. 40, 

 $ (left hand half only). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brown ; cilia cinereous-brown. Forewing with a 

 large falvous discal patch extending to near the base ; a rather large black sub- 

 apical spot. Einchving unmarked. Underside pale olivescent cinereous-brown. 

 Foreiving with the fulvous patch as above, the costal and outer border indistinctly 

 flecked with browner strigse and hoary scales, the outer border edged with a very 

 ill-defined brownish denticulated line; the subapical spot larger, white-pupilled, and 

 encircled with a pale ochreous ring. Hindwing flecked with browner strigJB and 

 hoary scales, and crossed by an ill-defined subbasal and a discal very flexuous 

 brownish line, and a more macular submarginal line. 



Female. Upperside as in male, except that on the forewing there is sometimes 

 a lower median small black spot. Underside also as in the male, except that on 

 the forewing the ocellus is somewhat larger and has a slightly broader encircling 

 pale ochreous ring, and sometimes having a very small spot between the lower 

 median veinlets. Body beneath pale cinereous-brown ; hairs in front of palpi 

 blackish-tipt ; collar, sides of palpi, and legs beneath whitish-cinereous ; antennae 

 brown above, whitish-cinereous beneath. 



Expanse, c?lf, ? If to If inch. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



Distinguishable from G. Neoza by the much brighter fulvous colour of the upper- 

 side of the forewing in both sexes, and also in the absence of the transverse discal 

 annulate brown line in both the male and female. 



Distribution. — The localities given for this species by Dr. Felder (1. c. p. 490) 

 are " Spiti ; Losar, Dishungdeo, Kibber, Shalkar, Lupshu, and Rumbog in Ladak ; 

 Karnag; Niri Sumdo, 15,000 feet ; Padam ; Abrang; and Marsmag." Mr. L. de 

 Nicuville (Butt. Ind. 208) i-ecords the capture of a large series of the male and of a 

 single female at Dras and Tashgam in Ladak, in June, and Major J. Biddulph took 

 a male at Astor at 7700 feet altitude in September, " and that it appears to affect 

 higher elevations and to occur further in the interior than E. Neoza." Major 

 H. B. Hellard obtained it in Kashmir in September, 1872, and Mr. J. H. Leech 

 collected specimens on the Skoro La, 12,000 feet, in July, 1887. 



CHORTOBIUS C(ENONYMPHA (Plate 105, fig. 2, ?). 



JEpinephde Canonympha, Felder, Kcise Kovara, Lep. iii. p. 492, pi. 69, figs. 14, 15, ? (1867). 

 Marshall and do Nicevillc, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 210 (1883) J ?. 



Imago. — " Male. Upperside fuscous, with the forewing below and the hindwing 



