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Underside. Forewing also similar. Eindivmg finely irrorated with brown scales — 

 imperfectly forming strig«, which are more densely disposed on the basal half, 

 paler and less numerous on the outer half ; crossed by an ill-defined subbasal, a 

 medial narrow sinuous angular fascia, and a less-defined submarginal fascia ; a very 

 minute apical and two anal black dots, the former disposed between the subcostals 

 and generally blind, the two latter sometimes pupilled and ringed. The following 

 is the original description of Y. Alemola. "Male and female. Upperside very 

 similar to T. Asterope, an African species. Underside much paler, and of a different 

 hue, greyish-white, very plentifully covered with pale reddish-brown stri^, more 

 dense in the fore than in tbe hindwing. Forewings with a brown fascia from the 

 costa round the ocellus back to the costa, diffuse and deep below the ocellus. Hind- 

 wing with three sinuous fasciaB across the wing, the first before the middle, the second 

 beyond the middle, the third submarginal ; one or other of these fasciae is very 

 often obsolete ; the strias is denser towards the base of the wing, leaving the outer 

 half whitish ; two anal and one apical blind dots, in the place of the well-formed 

 ocelli with yellow wings of Y. Asterope, one or other of these dots is often wanting, 

 in some specimens all are wanting." 



Expanse, Ij^ to l^-o inch. 



Habitat. — N.-W. Himalayas ; Western and Central India ; Orissa. 



This species is alHed to the N.-B. African (Aden) species P. Asterope of Klug, 

 specimens of which from Lahej, in Aden, collected by Major J. W. Yerbury, are in 

 our collection. 



DiSTETBUTiON. — In the N.-W. Himalayas, the wet-season form of this species has 

 been taken by Colonel A. M. Lang in the " Simla Hills in June and July " (MS. 

 Notes), and at Naini Tal. Col. C. H. T. Marshall took it in "Chumba, in March" 

 (Butt. Ind. 225), and Col. Swinhoe possesses specimens from Col. Marshall taken 

 at Chumba in April. Major J. W. Yerbury (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1888, 137) collected 

 the wet-season form at Attock and Abbottabad in April, at Campbellpur and Hassan 

 Abdal in June and July, at Kairabad in July, and at Abbottabad and Kala Pani in 

 July and August. The dry-season form (Alemola) was also obtained at Attock in 

 March and April, at Kairabad in April, at Campbellpur in April, at Akhori Hill in 

 April, at Hassan Abdal in May, Kala Pani in May, and at Rawul Pindi and on the 

 Murree Road in March and April. Both forms being common on the Hills round 

 Campbellpur, and on the lower slopes of the Hills near Abbottabad." Mr. "W, Doherty 

 doubtless refers to this species (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 119), under Y. 

 Asterope, as having been collected by him in Kumaon at " Bagheswar, Takula, Lower 

 Sarfu and Lower Gori, at 2000 to 6000 feet elevation." In Western India, it has 

 been taken at " Hyderabad in Bind " (Butt. Ind. 225). Specimens from Mount 

 Aboo are in Major Adamson's collection. The late Mr. G. H. Wilkinson took it at 



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