10 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown, -witli an genescent 

 gloss ; cilia alternated with white. Forewing with a transverse inwardly-oblique 

 discal straight dusky glandular fascia, which extends from the upper median to the 

 posterior margin ; two very indistinct slender dusky bars crossing the cell, a 

 similar discocellular bar, and an upper outer-discal outwardly-recurved line, the 

 latter with a slightly paler external bordering edge ; beyond is a suffused sub- 

 marginal line ; a moderately large prominent subapical black ocellus and a minute 

 apical ocellus, each with a white pupil and narrow ochreous outer ring. Eindwing 

 with two, sometimes three, similar outer ocelli, the lowest, and when present the 

 iipper, being the smallest. Underside pale brownish-grey. Forewing with the 

 lower discal area suffused with bright ochreous ; markings as on upperside, with 

 the cell bars, discal and submarginal line prominent, dark brown, and externally 

 bordered with pale grey, the inner cell-bar extending across the wing ; ocelli 

 prominent. Hindunng crossed by a subbasal and a discal irregular recurved 

 ochreous-brown line ; a series of six prominent ocelli, the sixth duplex, each with 

 two pale ochreous rings and two brown rings ; marginal lines pale grey 

 bordered. 



Female paler. Foreioing with a broad inverted-pyriform bright ochreous ex- 

 terior patch, on which the two ocelli are very prominent, the patch traversed by 

 the brown veinlets and the large ocellus inwardly bordered by an incurved brown 

 streak. Hindwing with the ocelli as in male, but more prominent. Underside 

 as in the male. Thorax above clothed with virescent-brown hairs ; body beneath 

 brownish-grey; legs above brown; palpi clothed with brownish-grey hairs; collar 

 and side of palpi greyish-white ; antenna dark brown, annulated with white. 



Expanse. — c? ? If to 2f inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. Himalayas ; ( ? Beluchistan). 



Distribution. — "According to Col. A. M. Lang's MS. notes, this species is 

 very local, and seems to have its headquarters at Pangi, in Middle Kunawur, and 

 to disappear within fifteen miles on either side. On the Werang Pass, nearly 

 14,000 feet high, and about twelve miles from here, Tibetwards, I have taken this 

 insect in June and July." Col. Lang also obtained it at Chini, 9000 feet, in 

 September. Major Hellard took it at Pangi in July and August. Mr. L. de 

 Niceville (Butt. Ind. 181) observes that "it is found in the Pangi and Chini 

 districts in June and July, but it appears to be local, and nowhere very common. 

 I took a male at Nurla, Ladak, on July 5th, and two females at Chanagund and 

 Charjil, Ladak, in June and July ; these were all the specimens I saw, the ex- 

 tremely scanty vegetation of this dry and barren region not being favourable to an 

 abundant insect fauna." 



A female specimen, doubtfully referable to this species, and differing from 



