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yellow, suffused with pale rufous, the discal large spot silvery-ochreous, edged with 

 dark rufous, a similarly euloured small spot above it, another in the cell near the base, 

 the abdominal fold whitish, both win 2^3 with outer mar2;inal brown line. Autennse 

 brown above, the club with a yellowish-white tip, on the underside the entire autennss 

 is yellowish-white ; palpi, head, body and legs brown, palpi white beneath, pectus with 

 white hairs, abdomen smeared with white. 



Female like the male. Upperside with an additional, somewhat prominent yellow 

 spot near the apex of the hindwing. Underside. Forewing with the outer marginal 

 band as on the upperside, l)ut more rufous in colour, otherwise as in the male. 

 Hindwing with the ground colour darker rufous, the silvery-ochreous markings as in 

 the male, with an additional apical sjaot, and a sub-marginal, broken, whitish baud. 



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



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — The type in coll. Elwes, came from Native Sikkim ; there arc 

 several examples of both sexes in the B. M. from the Chumbi Valley, taken by Taylor 

 in the month of July ; our description and figures are from a pair of them. 



PAMPHILA DIECKMANNI. 



Plate 7S3, figs. 4, ^, 4a, J , 4b, ^ . 



Cartcrcccplialus dieckmanni , Grreser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 102. 



Paiiipliila dieckmanni, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 168. Adamson, Trans. Xat. 



Hist. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 141. 

 Cartcroccphalus gemmata, Leech, Entom. xxiv. Suppl. p. .59 (June, 1891). 

 Pamphila genimata, Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 588, pi. 41, tig. 18, 9 (189.3). "Watson, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. X. 1896, p. 675. 

 Cartcrocephalus demea, Obei'thiir, Etud. d'Ent. xv. p. 19, pi. 3, fig. 24 (July, 1891). 

 Auhertia demea, Oberthiir, I.e. xx. p. 40 (1896). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black, with pure white spots. Forewing with two 

 spots in the cell, the first at the basal third, of irregular shape, the other at one-third 

 from the end, l)ar-shaped across the cell, an equally large, irregular spot below the 

 cell end in the first median interspace with two small spots below it, and a small spot 

 outwards, above it ; five sub-apical spots, the first three from near the costa, in a 

 straight line, divided by the veins, the other three smaller, also in a line, close together 

 and placed outwards. Hindwing with a white bar across the cell end and a small spot 

 below it. Cilia of both wings brown, pure white at the apex of the forewing and along 

 the costa of the hindwing. Underside paler black. Forewing with markings as on 

 the upperside, but larger, a white line across the end of the cell, a wliite streak at the 

 apex and a white patch at the base. Hindwing with two liroad transverse white 

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