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side, but greyish-brown ; also three slender brown transverse streaks within the 

 cell, and an irregular streak beyond it : two prominent subapical black ocelli with 

 white pupil, the upper one very small, beneath them is a white dot, indicating an 

 incipient ocellus, all three being encompassed by a slender brownish line. Hindwing 

 with greyish-brown basal area and exterior border, the discal area being whitish- 

 grey, the division defined by a dark brown irregular zigzag discal line, there being 

 also a similar brown subbasal line, and a wavy submarginal line, the pale area 

 traversed by a series of six prominent ocelli, the lowest being duplex, each with a 

 black centre and white pupil, an ochreous ring, and then a brown ring, the upper, 

 second, and third ocellus being the smallest, the others of nearly equal size. 



Female. Upperside. Foreiving differs only in the two subapical spots being 

 more prominent, the discocellular bar and the marginal border are broader. Eind- 

 ioing as in male. Underside as in male. 



Expanse, (J 2 to 2f, ? 2f to 2f inches. 



Habitat. — 'N.-W. Himalayas (Kashmir). 



Distribution. — A. Cashmirensis is " a rare and very local butterfly. It was 

 captured by the late Capt. R. Bayne Reed at Goolmurg, an elevated plateau above 

 6000 feet, in Kashmir. Specimens have since been taken by Mr. R. Ellis in Pangi, in 

 July and August, at considerable elevations. It was also captured by Mr. Atkinson 

 in Kashmir, but no other record of its capture can be traced." (Butt. Ind. i. 178.) 

 The late Major H. B. Hellard obtained specimens at Ooramboo and Goolmurg. 



Allied species op Ameceea. — The allied A. Eversmanni* F. v. W. Moscow 

 Bull. 1847, pi. ii. fig. 5, 6, of Central Asia. Specimens which we have examined 

 differ from A. Cashmirensis, on the upperside, in the exterior marginal band beino- 

 much darker and more pronounced, this band on the hind-wing being also con- 

 spicuously narrow, and very sharply defined on its inner edge, the discal black 

 spots being five in number, sharply defined, and placed in a more regularly hnear 

 sequence, the entire discal and basal area of this wing being also as bright ochreous 

 in colour as the forewing. On the underside A. Eversmanni differs in the 

 forewing being brighter ochreous, the cell streaks and outer markings darker and 

 sharply defined, the cell streaks less sinuous and wider apart, the outer streak being 

 much nearer the discocellular veinlet. In the hindwing the basal area and outer 

 brown portions are darker, the subbasal and discal irregular line prominent, the 

 outer edge of the latter strongly defined, and prominently white bordered ; the ocelli 

 are more regular in size, though smaller, the three upper ocelli being of uniform 

 size, and all are placed in more regularly linear sequence. 



* Also described and figured by Erschoff, Lep. Turkestan, p. 19, pi. 2, fig. 15. See also Eomanoff's 

 Mem. Lep. 1890, p. 487. It is placed, erroneously, in Staudinger's Catal. Eur. Lep. (1871), p. 30, as a 

 variety of Pararge Eoxelana. This latter named insect is not even congeneric. 



