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Variety 2. — " Upperside -witli the purple gloss much, duller and less distinctly 

 defined, the white discal band more widely diffused both outwardly and inwardly by 

 white powdering, especially on the hindwing. Forewing with an additional white spot 

 above the upper discoidal nervule in prolongation of the discal band, and all the white 

 spots are larger. Hindwing with the submarginal series of white dots expanded into 

 a series of diffused and almost confluent white lunules. Underside with the discal rufous 

 band wider, its outer edge sharply defined with black and less sinuous ; in the forewing 

 the additional white spot also appears ; the black spots in the cell are much larger 

 (confluent in one specimen), the black patch at the inner angle is larger and more 

 diffused, and the whitish luaules on the rufous border are reduced to two. In the 

 hindwing the black spot of the rufous band on the lower median interspace is entirely 

 wanting. Expanse, 3"15 to 3*50 inches. Three males in Major Marshall's collection ; 

 two taken at Kutabul, in Kashmir, by Mrs. R. Bazett, at an elevation of 8200 feet, 

 and one from Pangi, on the east border of Kashmir, taken by Mr. R. Ellis " (de 

 Niceville, I.e. p. 51). 



Vaeiett 3. — Apatura Zanoa (Plate 191, fig. d, e). Upperside brownish-black. 

 Forewing showing only a very restricted lower discal portion, on a blue ground, of 

 the medial band, and the three subapical spots. Hindwing showing only the white 

 hairs, on a blue ground, of the lower part of the medial band, a small white costal 

 spot before the apex, and the anal fulvous-red spot. Underside. Forewing with a 

 broad outer marginal fulvous-red band marked posteriorly between the medians with 

 two series of pinkish-white lunules, and inwardly bordered by black spots ; cell 

 streaks normal. Hindwing with only a broad marginal fulvous-red band, the inner 

 edge of the band being sinuous ; a slightly-defined subanal black-speckled spot, 

 and an interrupted, slightly defined, slender fulvous-red, short submarginal line. 

 Darjiling. 



DiSTKiBUTiON. — " The males are found sparingly throughout the outer ranges of 

 the Himalayas westward as far as Murree; they are not usually difficult to capture, as 

 they come down to the wet sand on the borders of the hill streams to drink. There 

 is a single female in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Masuri ; also males from 

 Buxa, Bhotan, and the ISTaga Hills. Major Marshall has taken it below Naini Tal in 

 Kumaon, and Dr. E. R. Johnson at Shillong in the Khasia Hills in July. A variety 

 [No. 2] occurs in the interior of the N.W. Himalayas, of which three males are in 

 Major Marshall's collection, two having been taken at Kutabul, in Kashmii% in June, 

 by Mrs. R. Bazett at an elevation of 8200 feet, and one from Pangi, on the east 

 border of Kashmir, taken by Mr, R. Ellis" (de Niceville, I.e. 51). Major H. B. 

 Hellard took " a single specimen at Tain, in Kashmir, at the beginning of October " 

 (MS. Notes). Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 125) records its capture at 

 " Loharkhet and Kapkot, on the Upper Sarju Valley, at 4000 to 5000 feet in N.W. 



