XYMPHALIN.E. (Group jr£i/r.E/.vj.) 5 



but in one place, on one acre of ground. I may say, on a patch of very stony 

 pasture-land, at 16,000 feet altitude, on the Kongma Pass, above Shipki, iu July, 

 leading from Kunawur into the Chinese province of Guglie in Tibet, where the 

 ground, is not clear of snow for more than four months in the year. Here one day 

 I saw a great number of these insects flying, an icy-cohl wind blowing all the time, 

 so that the insects were blown about, and never more than an inch or so above the 

 ground. No other Lepidoptera near them did I see but a stray CoUas Edasa, and 

 several Parnassil coursing up and down the snow-banks a little higher up " (P. Z. S. 

 1865, 496). Mr. P. W. Mackinon remarks that specimens are " brought in very 

 rarely by native collectors from the Isilang Pass, Tehrai Clurhwul, 18,000 feet 

 elevation, in July " (Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1898, 368). Mr. J. Hocking took ic 

 on the Rhotang Pass (P. Z. S. 1882, 243). 



MELLICTA SIKKIMENSIS (Plate 380, fig. 4, 4a, S ? )• 



MeUtcea Sindura, Yar. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loml. 1888, p. 33G. 



MelHica orieyifalhy' Elwes, id. p. 405, pi. x. fig. 4, 5, ^ ? (1888). Je Niccvillc, Gazetteer of Sikkim, 

 1894, p. 1.32. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dusky fulvous ; cilia whitish, alternated with black. 

 Both wings with the base densely black scaled; veins black ; a broad black exterior 

 marginal band, which is traversed by a medial row of more or less obsolescent 

 fulvous lunules. Forewing also with a black obtuse point from near base of the 

 cell, a broad reniform mark slightly centred with fulvous scales across middle of the 

 cell, an angular duplex streak at its end, and a broad angled patch below the cell ; an 

 inner-discal angular row of rather large spots, of which the three lower are some- 

 what dentate ; followed by an outer-discal row of similar spots, the latter being 

 somewhat partly continuous and slightly confluent with the outer black band. 

 Rindwing also with an inner-discal transverse sinuous row of black small dentate 

 spots partly confluent with the black basal area, and an outer-discal continuous row 

 of larger similar spots partly confluent with the outer black band. Underside pale 

 fulvous. Forewing with the costa and outer border yellowish ; cell and discal 

 markings obscure ; submarginal row of lunules prominent and white. liindwiiuj 

 with a transverse subbasal narrow prominent glossy-white black-edged sinuous 

 band, which touches a similar spot at end of the cell, a medial-discal sinuous band 

 with its inner black-edge less apparent, and a submarginal lunular band ; the basal, 

 inner-discal and outer-discal transverse interspaces blotched with bright fulvous ; 



■"' Quite distinct from Melitaa orientalis, Meaetries, Scbrenck's Kelseu AmurlauJ, ii. p. 23, pi. 2. 

 fig. 5 (18.39). 



