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it is also easily distinguishable by the absence of the series of submarginal ocelli, 

 on a ferruginous band, which are generally present on both wings in most of the 

 species of the latter genus. 



PARALASA KALINDA (Plate 117, figs. 3, 3a, b, <^ ? ). 



Erebia Kalinda, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 501, pi. 30, fig. 5, ? . Marshall and de 

 Niceville, Butt, of India etc. i. p. 241 (1883). Ehves, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1889, pp. 331, 341. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside olivescent-brown ; cilia alternately edged with white 

 and brown. Foreiolng with a subapical round black ocellus, pupilled with white and 

 narrowly ringed with ochreous, below which is an outer-discal chestnut-red patch. 

 Eindwing with a lower outer-discal smaller chestnut-red patch, which is nearly or 

 sometimes quite obsolete in some specimens. Underside cinerescent-brown. Fore- 

 luing with the entire discal area, including the cell, chestnut-red, the subapical 

 ocellus more prominent and paler ringed, and the brown apical border speckled with 

 cinerescent scales. Hindiving sparsely speckled with distinctly-defined cinereous 

 scales, these scales being more densely disposed across the disc and there form an 

 ill-defined transverse fascia, beyond which is an outer discal recurved series of white 

 dots. 



Female. Upperside. Fareumig with the ocellus somewhat larger, and the 

 discal red patch much broader. Eindwing as in the male. Underside duller brown, 

 in some darker cinerescent-brown, Foreiving as in the male. Eindwing more 

 densely speckled with cinereous scales, the discal white dots less prominent. Thorax 

 beneath greyish-black; abdomen beneath and legs beneath greyish; legs above 

 brown ; palpi white at the side, frontal hairs black ; antennas blackish above, pale 

 ringed beneath, club reddish and black tipt. 



Expanse, c? In) to 2, ? I^q to 2^q inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



DiSTEiBOTiON. — The type specimens were taken by Colonel A. M. Lang, who 

 remarks that " this is a subalpine Kunawur insect, and is local. I saw very few, 

 and at only two places, on the Hill-sides below the Werang and Runang Passes, at 

 perhaps from 11,000 to 12,000 feet elevation, in July. It has a weak low flight 

 amongst grass and flowers " (MS. Notes). " Mr. A. Graham Young took it in the 

 Kulu Valley in May. Mr. L. de Niceville obtained numerous males and one female at 

 Ulwas in May, and Mr. R. Ellis and Dr. Hutchinson took numerous specimens of 

 both sexes in Pangi, in June and July, at altitudes of 9000 feet and upwards " 

 (Butt. Ind. 241). Dr. G. Watt obtained it in the Pine forests of the Ravi Basin, 

 up to 12,000 feet. Specimens are in Mr. J. H. Leech's Collection, taken by Mr. 

 H. McArthur in the Kutie Pass, 7000 feet, N. of Dalhousie, in September, 1889, 

 and from Kokser, in Lahul in July, 1888, and from the Kutkie Pass, 85,000 feet, in 



