10 LEPIDOPTERA IMjICA. 



row of dentate luiniles joined at the vein-ends to a marginal band, tlius leaving a 

 parallel intervening i-ow of fulvous dentate spots. Hindwiiig with a black basal 

 costal elongated bar, the base of tlie cell and upper portion of inner margin being 

 l)roadly black scaled ; a black oval mark in middle of cell, an inner-discal transverse 

 angulated series of lun\des, of which the loner are broadest and merge into the 

 dark inner border ; a parallel medial-discal series of rounded spots, of which the. 

 upper is the largest, the next two small, speckled, and very obscure, the others 

 increasing in size, the two lowest slightly merging into those above them; followed 

 by a submarginal narrow lunular band, which is joined at the vein-ends to a 

 broader marginal band, thus leaving a parallel intervening row of fulvous broad 

 lunules. Underside bright fulvous. Foreioivfj with slender black basal, cell, discal, 

 and marginal markings as above, but much less defined ; the apex and edge of 

 outer margin dull white, the latter traversed by a row of small decreasing black 

 spots ; th_' extreme outer margin edged with a denticulated black line. Hlndwing 

 with a dull white basal sinuous band, a middle cell spot; a broad transverse discal 

 cuived band, and a broad marginal lunular band white, the latter crossed by black 

 veins, each band being borderingly-edged with black lunules ; basal band also 

 marked with two transverse series of small black spots, the discal band medially 

 traversed by a row of small black lunate spots, and the marginal band by a row of 

 small narrow spots ; the extreme outer marginal edge with a narrow black dentate 

 line. Body and palpi above black; palpi beneath clothed with fulvous hairs; 

 abdomen beneath whitish, banded with black and lateral fulvous spots, anal tuft 

 fulvous ; legs fulvous ; antennas black, the tip fulvous. 



Female. Upperside. Furewing dusky fulvous ; veins Ijlack ; the basal inter- 

 spaces powdered with black scales ; black markings similar to male, but broader, 

 there being present also, an outer discal transverse row of black continuous lunules, 

 the interspaces between it and the inner-discal row- of spots being pale fulvescent- 

 white ; the middle cell-bar and inner discocellular bar enclosing a pale f ulvescent- 

 white space, the outer discocellular bar being acutely angled. Hindicing bright 

 fulvous-red ; the black markings as in male, the interspaces between the low'er discal 

 spots speckled with pale fulvous scales, and the anal marginal lunules whitish. 

 Underside bright fulvous. Forewing marked as in the male ; the costal edge, apex, 

 and outer marginal edge very pale yellow. Hindwing marked as in male ; the basal, 

 discal, and marginal band being very pale yellow. 



Expans3, S I^q, ? 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Chitral, N. of Afghanistan. 



Our illustrations of this species on Plate 380 are from a male and female in the 

 collection of Mr. 11. Grose-Smith. Specimens of both sexes are in the British 

 Museum, taken in the Shishi Kuh Valley, Chitral, 9000 to 11,000 feet elevation, in 



