334 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



GEGENES NOSTRADAMUS. 



Plate 835, fi^s. 1, ^, la, ? , lb, <? . 



Pajiilio nontrafJamiis, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 323 (1793). 



Pamphila nostradatims, Kirby, Eur. Butt. p. 65 (1882). 



Gcgenes nostradamus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 378. Watson (part), id. 1893, p. 104 ; id. 



Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435. Elwes and Edwards (part), Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, 



p. 286. Leslie and Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. 1903, p. 677. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, 



p. 57. 

 Chapra nostradamus, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 33 (1891). 

 Papilio pijrjmsens, Cyr (nee Fabricius), Ent. Neap. pi. 51, fig. 5 (1787). Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. ii. 



figs. 458-460 (1803). 

 Papilio pumilio, Hoft'mann, 111. Mag. iii. p. 202 (1804). 

 Scsperia piimilio, Freyer, Neure Beitr. vi. pi. 513, tigs. 2, 3 (1847). 

 Hesperia hfehvrU, Rambur, Cat. Lep. And. p. 90 (note), 1858. 



Imago. — Male. Upper.side brown, with a slight pinkish tint. Furewing with 

 Mackish suffusion on a little more than the basal half merging into the paler ground 

 colour of the outer portion of the wing. Ilindwing with a paler blackish suffusion on 

 the basal portion, no markings on either wing. Cilia of both wings brown. Underside 

 uniformly pale greyish-brown ; very obscure indications of three sub-apical pale dots 

 on the forewing and of some discal dots on both wings. Antennae black, its underside 

 with white spots on the shaft and the club entirely white ; palpi grey, with some 

 brown hairs ; head and body concolorous with the wings ; underside whitish ; legs 

 ochreous-white. 



Female. Upperside paler than the male, without any blackish suffusion. Forewing 

 with three extremely minute whitish sub-apical dots in an outwardly oblique line and 

 three discal spots in an inwardly oblique line, one in each of the median interspaces 

 and the third on the sub-median vein, sometimes there is a very minute white dot in 

 the discal series in interspace 4. Hindicing without markings. Underside coloured 

 like the underside of the male, the spots as on the upperside. 



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



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas, Central 4sia, South Europe, North Africa. 



Distribution. — Within our limits, Butler records it from Campbellpur, Attock 

 Bridge, Kairabad, Kala Paul and Hurripur ; Leslie and Evans from Chitral ; we have it 

 from Kulu. 



GEGENES KARSANA. 

 Plate 835, figs. 2, $ , 2a, ? , 2b, <J , 2c, ? . 



Hesperia l-arsana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 576, pi. 67, fig. 6. 



Pamphila karsana, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 612. Swinhoe, id. 1884, p. 512 ; id. Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. 1885, p. 345. 



