SATYRINM 21 



pale cinereoi^s-browD, transversely mottled with darker brown; crossed by an 

 indistinctly-defined subbasal and a more prominent brown irregular angulated discal 

 line, the latter broadly outwardly-bordered by cinereous-white, and beyond which is 

 a very small subanal black spot with white pupil, and a submarginal lunular dusky 

 line. 



Female. Upperside similar to the male (except in the absence of the sexual 

 patch). Forewing with the inner edge of the discal band more acutely angular, and 

 the outer edge lunular. Underside paler than in male, with similar markings, but 

 less defined. Bodij cinereous-brown ; collar, sides of palpi, and legs beneath 

 cinereous- white ; antennte brown, with broad blackish spatular club. 



Expanse c? 2f , ? 2|- inches. 



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



Distribution. — Within our limits this species has been taken by Major Howland 

 Roberts in the neighbourhood of Kandahar, who notes that it is " very common at 

 the beginning and middle of May in the nullahs and on the rocky slopes at the foot 

 of the hills, resting under the shade of rocks and stones during the heat of the day, 

 and flying about in the early morning and evening, when it is easily captured. In 

 June scarcely a specimen was to be found." (P.Z.S. 1880, 405.) Colonel C. Swinhoe 

 also obtained it in S. Afghanistan, at " Chaman in May, at Quetta in May and 

 September, and at Gwal in May. Fairly common." It was also obtained by Colonel 

 A. M. Lang at " Quetta at 5500 feet elevation, in the Hanna Valley 6500 feet, and 

 the Kawas Valley, 8000 feet elevation, where it was not uncommon among boulders 

 in the gorges of the high valleys." (Butt. Ind. 187.) 



Genus CHAZARA. 

 Both sexes more robust than typical Eumenis {E. Semele), and the general 

 pattern of the markings on the upperside different. Male. — Foreioing more 

 triangular, the glandular patch shorter, confined immediately below the cell, the patch 

 clothed with laxly- raised outwardly-curved elongated broad-tipt dark claviform scales, 

 interspersed with numerous longer very slender tapering dark androconia with 

 feathery tips, the patch also being densely covered with overlapping hairs ; cell 

 broader and shorter. Hindiving broader, more convex externally. Paljyl much 

 stouter, apical joint thicker and shorter. Antennce with a shorter, broader, spatular 

 club. Eyes naked. Type. C. Briseis. 



CHAZARA SHANDURA (Plate 98, figs. 3, 3a, cJ ? ). 

 Eijrparchia Shandura, Marshall, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1882, p. 38, pi. 4, fig. 3, ? ; Marsha 

 and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., i. p. 191 (1883). 

 Imago.— Male. Upperside fuHginous-black. Cilia alternated with white. 



