24 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



bourliood of Kandahar by Colonel 0. Swinhoe, who obtained a single " female at 

 Chaman on the 14th May, 1880 " (Ann. N. H. 1882, 206). This specimen has been 

 under our examination for verification. 



Genus NYTHA. 



Nytha, Billberg, Enum. Ins. p. 77 (1820). Scudder, Amer. Acad. A. and Sci. Boston, 1875, p. 231. 

 Hijjparchia, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1868, p. 19-i; Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 50(1868), iiec Fabricius. 



Imago. — Male. Wings large, broad. Forewing triangular ; costa arched, apex 

 obtuse, exterior margin oblique, posterior margin short ; costal and median vein 

 swollen at the base ; crossed by a broad medial-discal inwardly-oblique glandular 

 fatch, which also extends within lower part of the cell to its end only, and is densely 

 clothed with raised very long slender serrate-tipt scales, and numerous interspersed 

 long very slender attenuated androconia with truncate base and tasselled-tip ; cell 

 veiy long, rather broad. Hindtoing very broad, exterior margin convex, sharply 

 scalloped; abdominal margin very long; cell long; discocellular much recurved, 

 very oblique. Pal2n densely clothed to tip. Antennce long, slender, with short broad 

 spatular club. Eyes naked. 



Type. — N. Hermione. 



NYTHA PARISATIS (riate 98, figs. 4, 4a, <? ? ). 



Satyrus Parisatis, Kollar, Ins. Fauna S. Persia, p. 11 (1849) ; id. Deuksclir. Akad. "Wien. Math. 



Nat. CI. 1, p. 52 (1850). Staudinger, in Komanoff's Mem. Lep. 1890, p. 483. 

 Hipparchia Parisatis, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 58 (1868). Marshall and de Nic^ville 



Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 184, pi. xvi. fig. 47 ? (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside deep dusky-brown, with an olivescent gloss in some 

 lights. Cilia greyish-white, slightly alternated with dark brown at end of the 

 veins, more strongly on the hindwing. Foreiving with the costal edge from near the 

 base more or less thickly studded with greyish-white scales, forming a narrow bor- 

 dering fascia, which is dilated before the apex, and the exterior margin posteriorly 

 also studded with greyish-white scales forming a narrow band intersected by the 

 brown veins ; a broad dusky-black oblique inner-discal glandular fascia, which is 

 clothed with densely-packed very long narrow foliate serrate-tipt scales, very 

 numerously interspersed with long androconia with bulbous base, hair-like end and 

 feather-tip ; an indistinctly-defined subapical and a lower outer-discal black spot, the 

 upper one white-pupilled, and between them are generally visible two minute 

 narrow white spots, which are situated above and below the upper median veinlet ; 

 beyond is a narrow dusky -black lunular submarginal Hue edging the grey- white outer 

 border. Hindwing with a broader greyish-white marginal sinuous-edged band 



