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club with a red tip, palpi and abdomen white on the underside, thorax and legs grey, 

 the legs white beneath, head and body above concolorous with the wings. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1^, $ li inches. 



Habitat. — Central Asia, N.W. Himalayas. 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — Recorded by Leslie and Evans from Cliitral. 



CARCHARODUS SWINHOEI. 

 Plate 782, figs. 3, <J , 3a, ? , 3b, ^ . 



Carcharodus swtnhoei, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 68; id. Journ. Bo. Xat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, 



p. 422. 

 Erpinis viarrubii, Butler (nee Piaml)ui), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 411. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



188.5, p. 305. 

 Carcliarndus alcese, Elwes and Edwards (part), Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 152. 



Imago. — Male. Uppcrside dark olive-brown, or olive-greenish-brown. Foreiving 

 with the costal fold ochreous when turned over ; spots ochreous-white, nearly pure 

 white ; all very small ; a lunule marked inwardly with blackish at the end of the cell, 

 two small blackish spots below it ; two small white spots marked with blackisli in the 

 median interspaces, in an inwardly obliijue line, two larger blackish spots above the 

 hinder margin a little before and a little beyond the middle, a blacki.sh suffused 

 sub-apical .space containing three white dots near the costa in an outwardly obliijue 

 curve and .some blackish spots on the outer margin. Hindicinij with ante-medial, 

 discal and sub-marginal series of somewhat spear-shaped blackish marks, a little darker 

 than the ground colour in the interspaces ; a white spot at the end of the cell, with 

 some spots hindwards in continuation, and an indistinct series of whitish spots 

 inside the sub-marginal blackish series ; all these markings more or less obscure. 

 Underside paler, both wings crossed by four dark bands, the spaces between pale and 

 more or less whitish, the spots as on the upper.side. Antennfe black, shaft and club 

 spotted with white on the underside ; palpi, head and body above and below and the 

 legs concolorous with the wings, palpi beneath and the pectus grey. 



Female like the male, but without the costal fold, the spots a little larger, ami in 

 some specimens there is a white spot on the hindwing inside the cell near the base. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1 j-^ to 1 j% inches. 



Habitat. — Kashmir-, X.W. Himalayas, Kandahar, Quetta. 



Distribution. — There are many examples in the B. i\I. from Beluchistan, 

 Afghanistan and Thundiani ; we have both sexes from Kandahar, Quetta, Kashmir, 

 Chitral and Thundiani. 



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