4 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



at " Baltiil in tlie Sincl Valley, Lower Borzil Valley, and Giirais, in Kashmir, in 

 July " (MS. Notes). It is also recorded as having been taken " in the Wakhan 

 Valley, about 12,000 feet elevation. And also on the ascent to the Tragbal Pass, 

 about 9000 feet elevation" (Kept, on the Pamir Coram. 1898, 42). 



MELLICTA SINDURA (Plate 380, fig. 3, 3a, S)- 



Melilisa Sindura, Moore, Proo. Zool. Soo. Lond. 18G5, p. 4'JG, pi. 30, fig. 2. de Xice'ville, Butt, of 



India, etc., ii. p. 25 (1886). Roraanofr, Mem. Lep. v. p. 79, pi. 4, fig. 6 (1889). 

 MeliUea Ama-nula, Felder, Eeise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 392 (1867). 



Tmago. — Male. Fpperside fidvous ; cilia fulvescent- white, alternated with 

 black. Both wings with black veins; basal ai'eas blackish speckled; a narrow 

 exterior marginal black band which is traversed by an inner row of more or less 

 well-defined fulvous lunules, and by an outer row of less apparent fulvous-speckled 

 lunules. Forewinij with the costa blackish speckled; a black slender point from 

 base of the cell, a constricted mark across the middle, and a duplex streak at its 

 end; a slender angular mark below the cell; a transverse inner-discal angular row 

 of small spots, of which the two in the median interspaces are the smallest, or 

 sometimes obsolescent ; followed by an outer-discal row of similar spots which are 

 sometimes also more or less obsolescent. Hiiidiring with a slender blackish oval 

 mark at end of the cell, an inner-discal transverse imperfect sinuous line, and two 

 mediai-discal obsolescent lines, which latter are more defined posteriorly, and these 

 portions macular in the median and submedian interspace. Underside paler fulvous. 

 Forewivg with the costa and outer border yellowish ; cell and discal markings obscure ; 

 middle cell-mark interspaced with brighter fulvous; upper discal spots black; 

 submarginal dentate lunules yellou". IHndioinfj with a transverse subbasal narrow 

 glossy white outwardly black-edged sinuous band, an irregular-shaped spot at end 

 of the cell, a mediai-discal somewhat macular curved band, and a submarginal 

 lunular band ; the basal inner-discal and the outer-discal transverse interspaces 

 blotched with bright fulvous, the inner-discal bright interspace being outwardly 

 black-edged, and the lower bright blotches of the outer-discal interspace iuwai'dly 

 l)lack-edged. Bodij above blackish, clothed with fulvous hairs, beneath paler ; palpi 

 and legs fulvous ; antennre above black, beneath fulvous, annulated with white, tip 

 fulvous. 



Female. Upper and underside similar to the male; all the markings being 

 more prominent. 



Expanse, <S l/^ to l^-o, ? l^) inch. 



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Capt. A. M. Lang writes, " This is very local. I have seen it 



