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of both wings checkered black ami white. Underside jjale blackish, l)ase of both wings 

 suffused with bluish. Forewing with the spots as on the upperside, but larger, a 

 marginal macular white band from the apex for a short distance, then only faintly 

 indicated hindwards. Ilindwing with a prominent white spot in the upper middle of 

 the cell, another below in the middle of the first interspace, a broad white discal band 

 with irregular sides, from the costa to the hinder margin, near the anal angle, dislocated 

 at vein 3, then continued hiudward by two large conjoined spots, a series of white 

 marginal streaks and two small spots Ijetween it and the discal baud ; marginal line of 

 both wings black. Cilia checkered, pale blackish and white. Antennae black above, 

 with white dots, pure white beneath, the club on the underside white, marked with 

 black ; palpi, head and body above black, beneath, the palpi with long grey and black 

 hairs ; legs, brown above, ochreous-grey beneath, the hairs on the breast and legs grey, 

 abdomen whitish. 



Female similar to the male, the white middle baud of spots in a more or less 

 outward curve, in the male it is nearly straight, all the spots larger, and on the 

 underside the white macular band of tlie forewing is complete. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1 j^^ to ly-g- inches. 



Habitat. — Kashmir, N.W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — The type is from Kashmir ; we have both sexes from Gulmerg, 

 Killom near Quetta, 10,000 feet elevation, and Ranikhet ; Doherty records it from 

 Kumaon, Leslie and Evans from Chitral, Elwes from Kulu, 12,000 feet. 



CHINESE AND JAPANESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Hesperia alveus, Papilio alveus, Hubiier, Eur. Schraett. i. figs. 461-463 (1803). Hesperia alveus, 



Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 579 (1893). Habitat, W. China, Central A.sia, Europe. 

 Hesperia maculatus, Syrichtus macuhitus, Bremer and Grey, Schmett. N. China's, p. 11, pi. 3, fig. 6 



(18.53). Pryer, Rhop. Niphon, p. 35, pi. 10, fig. 21 (1889). Habitat, North and West China, 



Japan. 

 Hesperia zona, ScelothrLx zona, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1875, p. ccxiv. Hesperia zona, Leech, 



I.e. p. 577, pi. 41, figs. 1, 3. Habitat, .Japan, Korea. 

 Hesperia alhistriga, Scelothrix (Pyrgus) albistriga, Mabille, I.e. 1876, p. xxvii. Hesperia albistriga, 



Leech, I.e. p. 577, pl. 41, fig. 1. 

 Hesperia sinicus, Pyrgus siuicus, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 96. Habitat, Shanghai. 

 Hesperia hieti, Syrichtus bieti, Obertbiir, Etudes d'Ent. xi. p. 26, pl. 6, fig. 50 (1886). Habitat, 



W. China. 

 Hesperia tliihetanus, Syrichtus maculatus, vnr. thibetanus, Oberthiir, I.e. xv. p. 20, pl. 3, fig. 27 



(1891). Habitat, W. China. 

 Hesperia oh'rthiiri, Syrichtus oberthiiri, Leech, Entom. xxiv. Suppl. p. 59 (June, 1891). Hesperia 



oberthiiri, Leech, Butt, of China, etc. p. 579, pl. 41, fig. 5, ^ . Synonym, Syrichtus delavayi, 



Oberthiir, I.e. xv. p. 20, pl. 3, fig. 31, ^ (July, 1891). Habitat, W. China, Yui nm. 



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