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female, from Kasbgar, are in the British Museum collection, and also iu that 

 of Mr. H. Grose-Smith. 



The illustrations of this species on our Plate 93, fig. 3, represent a male from 

 Skoro La, kindly lent by Mr. L. de Niceville, and fig. 3a the female, reproduced 

 from Major Marshall's figure above referred to. 



Genus PHILARETA. 



Male. — Forewing much broader, shorter, and less triangular, than in typical 

 Chazara {G. Briseis) ; costa much arched before the end, exterior margin almost 

 erect; cell much shorter; glandular patch not present. Hinclwlng lar^e, very broad, 

 exterior margin scalloped, cell much shorter. Palpi clothed with shorter hairs 

 in front, apes more pointed. Antennce with a stouter, longer, flat, more truncate-tipt 

 spatular club. Eyes naked. Type. P. Hanifa. 



PHILARETA PERSEPHONE. 



Pajnlio PersejyJwne, Hubner, Eur. Schmett. I. pi. 115, figs. 589-90, et pi. UO, figs. 710-11 (1S05). 



Hijypareliia Persephone, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 55 (1868). 



Papilio AntJie, Ocksenheimer, Schmett. Eur. I. p. 169 (1807). 



Satyrus Anthe, Boisduval, Icones, pi. 40, figs. 3, 4 (1832), ? . 



Hipparchia Anthe, Marshall and de Nictville, Butt of India, etc. i. p. 192 (1883). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside dusky-brown, cinereous-brown basally. 

 Cilia alternated with white. Forewing with an outer-discal interrupted band composed 

 of whitish spotSjthe upper portion being elongated and divided in its middle by a square 

 black spot, and its inner end angled upward to the costa, the next portion, between 

 the upper medians, shorter and curved on its upper edge, the next longer and 

 divided in its middle by a round black spot, the two lower portions shorter. Eindiv.ing 

 crossed by a medial-discal curved sinuous whitish band, the inner edge sharply 

 defined. Underside cinereous. Forciving with the costal and outer border mottled 

 with blackish and brown strigse, the middle of the wing and macular band pale 

 ochreous, the latter almost white and laterally defined by narrow black edging ; 

 the two black spots distinct ; posterior border dusky. Hindiving densely mottled 

 with black and brown strigse ; a more or less distinct angulated transverse sub- 

 basal and a discal line, and a lunvilar submarginal line, the two latter with pale 

 cinereous outer border. Body beneath, palpi, and legs brownish-cinereous ; antennal 

 club blackish. 



Expanse, <S 2f to 2f , ? 2f to 2f inches. 



Habitat. — S. Russia ; Persia ; S. Afghanistan. 



Distribution. — Within our limits, this species has been taken in the neigh- 



