EBYNNIN^. 335 



Gegenes karsana, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 378. Swinhoe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, 

 p. 280. Watson, id. ix. 1895, p. 435. de Rhe-Philipe, id. xi. 1898, p. GOl. Nurse, id. xiv. 

 1902, p. 513. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 57. 



CJiapra karsana, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 139. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 34 (1891). 



Chapra (Gegenes) karsana, Hannyngton, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 1910, p. 370. 



Hesperia karsana var. saturata, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1882, p. 19. 



Gegenes nostradamus, Watson (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 104. Elwes and Edwards (part), 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 281. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale olive-oclireous brown. Foreu-ing with two very 

 indistinct pale sub-apical dots, in interspaces 6 and 7, not always distinguishable. 

 Hindwing without markings ; both wings with the ground colour darkest at the base, 

 gradually paling outwards, but always of quite a difterent description of colouring to 

 that of G. nostradamus ; marginal line of both wings brown. Cilia concolorous with 

 the wings. Underside with the coloration similar but somewhat duller. Forewing with 

 the sub-apical dots as on the upperside, and a series of three very indistinct pale discal 

 spots in an inwardly oblique line in interspaces 3, 2 and 1. Antennae black, the shaft 

 spotted with white on the underside, the club black on both sides ; in nosti-adamus it 

 is pure white on the underside ; palpi, head and body concolorous with the wings, the 

 front of thorax with some whitish scaling, and with grey scaling on the sides ; on the 

 underside the palpi, pectus, the entire body and legs are pure white. 



Female like the male, but the discal series of s]3ots on the forewing is complete as 

 in nostradamus. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 to lyg inches. 



Habitat.- — Burma, Western India, Sind, Beloochistan, Afghanistan. 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — The types came from Eawul Pindi, Punjab ; we took it plentifully 

 at Karachi, Quetta, Kandahar and in many places in Sind and in the Pisheen Valley ; 

 Nurse records it from Kutch ; Doherty records it from Kumaon, de Rhe-Philipe from 

 Masuri, and Wood -Mason and de Niceville record a variety from the Nicobars, these 

 last three localities seem to be questionable, because it is undoubtedly a desert form 

 of nostradamus. 



CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 

 Gegenes hainana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 303. Habitat, Hainan. 



Genus ERYNNIS. 



Erynnis, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. p. 157 (1801). Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 99. Leech, 

 Butt, of Ceylon, etc. ii. p. 593 (1893). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. Lx. 1895, p. 435. 

 Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 287. 



Forewing, vein 12 short, ends on costa much before end of cell, cell long and 



