242 LEPIDOPTEEA IXDICA. 



Female like the male, but less ochreous above, the spots more promiueut. 

 Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ,? ? 1 j-q- to I-yq inches. 



Habitat.— N.W. Himalayas, Chin Hills. 



Distribution. — The types came from Masuri, 7,000 feet elevation; Hannyngton 

 records it from Kumaon, Watson from the Chin Hills ; we have it from Nepal. 



AUGIADES SUBHYALINA. 



Plate 812, figs. 3, $, 3a, ?, 3b, i oc, <i . 



Hesperia suhliyal'ma, Bremer and Grey, Schmett. N. China's, p. 10, pi. 3, fig. 4 (1853). 

 Pamjjhila sulhyalina, Menetries, Cat. Mus. Petr. Lep. i. pi. 5, fig. 7 (18.5.5). 



Augicides siihlii/alina, Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 602, pi. 41, fig. 8, (J (1893). Elwes and 

 Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 247, pi. 24, fig. 58 (genitalia). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside ochreous-browu. Forewing with the costa up to and 

 beyond the sub-apical .spots dark ochreous divided by the brown sub-costal veins, the cell 

 with two dark ochreous streaks from the base ending in two elongated spots at the cell 

 end, the streaks divided from each other by a brown line and from the costal streak by 

 tlie upper margin of the cell ; the space below the cell up to the sex mark and the 

 basal half of the hinder marginal space below the sub-median vein also dark ochreous, 

 the sub-apical spots and the discal series disposed much as in ^1. hrahma, but all darker 

 ochreous, and there are two small dark ochreous dots above the discal series. 

 Hindwmg with a spot at the end of the cell, and a discal whorl of five spots ending in 

 the first median interspace, all dark ochreous, but somewhat suffused in some examples ; 

 the abdominal half of the wing more or less covered with dark ochreous hairs. Cilia of 

 both wings ochreous. Underside dull greyi-sh-ochreous. Forewing with the lower half 

 blackish, the costal and cell streaks and the sub-apical spots present, but somewhat 

 indistinct, the discal series as on the upperside, but paler, the lowest spot white, its 

 outer end forked. Hindwing uniform in colour, darker and Ijrowner than the colour 

 of the forewing, the ochreous spots present, but somewhat obscure. Antennte black, 

 the shaft spotted with white on the underside, the club tipped with pale red, its hinder 

 portion on the underside whitish ; eyes ringed with white ; palpi grey above, whitish 

 beneath ; pectus whitish ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings ; 

 legs more or less ochreous, with whitish hairs between them on the thorax. 



Female. Upperside brown, tinted with ochreous, dull and uniform in colour, all 

 the spots larger and nearly white and more or less elongated, the discal series on the 

 forewing completed up to the sub-apical .spots by the addition of two spots one above 

 the other, placed a little outwards. Cilia of both wings nearly white. Underside very 



