18 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



EUMENIS DIFFUSA. 



fiy-jparcAJa cZi^Msa, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1880, p. 147, (J. Marshall and de Xiceville, Butt, of 

 India, etc., i. p. ISO (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside similar to E. Semele, with the glandular patch on the 

 forewing less prominent, the ochreous patches enclosing the ocelli obscured and more 

 diffused, and also those between the intervening veins. On the hindiving the discal 

 ochreous-band is very much broader, extending to the costa, and is uniformly 

 ochreous from its sinuous outer edge to its medial angulated edge — this band thus 

 being more like that in the female of Semele, and the subanal ocellus is not ringed 

 with paler yellow. On the underside of the forewing the pale outer discal band 

 is broader than in E. Semele. Hindwing similar, but more densely mottled. 



ExjDanse, c? 2J inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. Himalaya. 



We have examined the type specimen of this species, now in the British Museum 

 collection, and find that it is a male, not a female — as erroneously indicated by 

 Mr. Butler in his original description. 



The only specimen we have had under examination is that of the type above 

 referred to. Mr. A. Graham- Young (Ent. Monthly Mag. 1885, p. 130) records its 

 capture as follows : — " Eiiyparchia diffusa was, when I first took it in the Ravi Basin 

 (I found it not uncommon in 1866 and 1867), at once recognized by me as merely 

 a variety of H. Semele, and I had the less difficulty in coming to this conclusion, 

 for whereas the specimens of E. Semele (which is very common in Persia) I took 

 near Tabriz and other parts of Azerbijan, agreed exactly with English specimens, 

 those taken in the Shemron, due north of Tehran, had a slight tendency to vary, 

 and specimens from Sharood-i-Bostan and the mountains near Meshed showed a 

 further, but still very sHght variation. I have no doubt the ' missing links ' will 

 turn up in Afghanistan, and that this form from the Ravi Basin, as far as we know, 

 the eastern limit of E. Semele, will prove inseparable from the European type." 



EUMENIS BALDIVA (Plate 98, fig. 1, la, <? ? ). 



Lasiommata Baldiva, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G5, p. 499, pi. 30, fig. 4 cJ. 



Amecera Baldiva, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1867, p. 163 ; Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 127 (1868). 



Sipparchia Baldiva, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 188 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing dusky cinerescent-brown ; with a more 

 or less dusky-black inner discal oblique broad glandular 'patch, which is clothed with 

 laxly-disposed raised outwardly-curved elongated clavate scales, interspersed with 

 long bulbous androconia, having a fine hair-like end, and a divergent feathery-tip, 

 these androconia varying in length, and some being extremely fine and hair-like 



