SATYRIN^. 105 



July, taken by Capt. Thompson, and also from Dugi, 12,000 feet, August and 

 September, from Baralacha, August, and from Spiti, August and September, taken 

 by Mr. McArtliur. Major H. B. Hellard took it on the " South side of Runang 

 Pass, at about 12,000 feet, in August" (MS. Notes). 



PAEALASA SHALLADA (Plate 118, figs. 1, la, b, cj ? ). 

 Erebia Shallada, Lang, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1880, p. 247. Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, etc. i. p. 241, pi. xv. fig. 42, S (1883). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1889, pp. 331, 

 341. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside uniform dark velvety olivescent-brown ; cilia brown 

 alternately edged with white between the veins. Forewing with a subapical black 

 ocellus having one prominent white pupil and an indistinctly-defined brownish- 

 ochreous outer ring ; below which is a small dark red outer-discal patch, situated 

 between the middle and lower median vein. Hindiving with a similar red patch 

 extending from above the upper to the lower median vein. Underside. Forewing 

 dark red, with the borders dark cinerescent-brown, and the apex speckled with 

 cinerescent scales ; ocellus larger than on upperside, bipupilled with white and ringed 

 with pale ochreous. Eindiving dark-brown, sparsely irrorated with cinerescent 

 speckles and short hairy scales, which are somewhat more numerously disposed across 

 the disc and there form a very ill-defined curved fascia ; beyond which is an outer- 

 discal curved series of white dots. 



Female. Upperside somewhat paler brown, the dark red patches brighter 

 coloured and more diffused, the subapical ocellus larger, more distinct and bipupilled, 

 the lower pupil being minute, outer ring pale ochreous ; sometimes there is a minute 

 ocellule between the upper and middle medians. Underside as in the male, but 

 paler brown and more densely speckled, the subapical ocellus more prominent, 

 larger, and brighter coloured. 

 Expanse, 2 to 2i^ inches. 

 Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — This species was first obtained by Col. A. M. Lang, who remarks 

 that "it appears to be very local, as during three or four years collecting in Kunawur 

 I only twice met with it, taking only five specimens, once at 6000 feet altitude, and 

 again at 8000 feet, on grass ground and rocky slopes near Wangtoo, above the 

 Sutlej, in June " (MS. Notes). Since then Mr. L. de Niceville has taken a large 

 number at Ulwas, in company with P. Kalinda, in May ; he also found it during 

 May exceedingly plentiful along all the roads in the Station of Dalhousie, and 

 through the thick forest as far as Kujiar. Major C. H. T. Marshall also found it 

 commonly at Kujiar, near Dalhousie, and at other places in the Churaba State, in 

 May ; and Mr. A. Graham Young took it in Kulu in May and July " (Butt. India, 



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