96 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



leugth of the costa ; discocellulars sub-erect, the lower the longer ; vein 3 emitted a 

 little before lower end of cell, 2 from a little before the middle, costa nearly straight 

 except at its base, the male with a small costal fold, apex sub-acute, outer margin 

 evenly convex, shorter than the hinder margin which is nearly 

 straight. Hindwing, vein 7 emitted quite close to the upper end of 

 cell, discocellulars and vein 5 very faint, 3 emitted immediately 

 before lower end of cell, 2 from a little beyond the middle ; costa 

 arched at its base, then nearly straight to the apex, apex and outer 

 margin evenly rounded. Antennse more than half the length of 

 the costa of forewing, club robust, arcuate, blunt at the tip, no 

 teiiuiual crook ; palpi sub-erect, second joint laxly clothed with longish scales, third 

 slender, blunt, almost concealed by the scaling of the second joint ; hind tibiae with 

 two pairs of spurs, and with a tuft of hairs in the male, with a pair of scabbard- 

 shaped scaly and hairy appendages, springing posteriorly from the breast at the 

 base of the hind less and about one-third the lencrth of the abdomen. 



Lang says : * " The position of the wings during repose is different from that of the 

 butterflies of any of the other families, the hindwings being held in a horizontal 

 po.sition, and the forewings only half erect, the wings are never closed perpendicularly 

 over the trunk, the inner margin of the hindwing is not deflected, but is thrown into a 

 slight fold, so that there is no canal for the reception of the abdomen." 

 Type, Papilio malvse, Linnseus. 



HESPERIA CASHMIRENSIS. 



Plnte 780, figs. 3, i , 3.a, 9 , 3b, $ . 



Pyrr/us caslimnensis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Sec. 1874, p. 274, pi. 43, fig. 7. 



Hegperia cashinirensis, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 137. Watson, Hesp. Tnd. p. 155 



(1891) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 65 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. 



Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 160. Leslie and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. xiv. 1903, p. 677. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside fuliginous-black, base of both wings with long bluish- 

 grey hairs. Forewing with three sub-apical white spots close together from near the 

 costa, a spot well outside the lowest spot with two more spots in an inwardly oblique 

 line, the middle spot of the three very small, a band of five white .spots across the 

 middle of the wing, crossing the end of the cell, the cell spot thickly lunulate, the spot 

 aViove it duplicate, the spot below it round, the two lowest spots somewhat inwardly 

 obli({ue. Hindwing with two, sometimes three, very obscure white discal dots. Cilia 



• Butt, of Europe, i. p. 335 (1884). 



