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almost straight and keeled, the sides flattened and narrowh- quadrate from base 

 to keel. 



Expanse, 6 ? 2^-0 to 2^% inches. 



Habitat.— Ladak ; Vr. Tibet ; Sikkim-Tibet Frontier. 



Distribution. — The type-specimens were obtained in Ladak at 16,000 feet 

 elevation bj Major Chariton. A female, from Ladak, taken hj Mr. F. E. S. Adair, 

 and both sexes taken on the Barren Mount, W. Tibet, in July, are also in the British 

 Museum. Four males from N.W. Karakoram, 18,000 feet elevation, taken in July, by 

 Capt. McArthur, and three males from S.W. Tiber, taken at 17,(i00 feet, are in 

 Mr. J. H. Leech's Collection. Botli sexes from Lapsang (or Lakzung), S. of the 

 Karakoram Pass, about 17,500 feet elevation, also on the summit of the Pass, 

 19,600 feet, in July, 1870, taken by Mr. E. B. Shaw on his journey to Yarkand, are 

 in Ml-. F. Godmau's Collection, and a female taken in the Samunda Pass, 17,000 feet, 

 near Lake Tsomoriri, in Ladak, by Dr. Stoliczka, is in the "Felder" Collection at 

 Tring. Mr. H. J. Elwes records a specimen, which he refers to tliis species, received 

 by him from the Sikkim-Tibet Frontier (P. Z. S. J 886, 35). 



On our Plate 411, figs. 1 is a male, and la, b, a female, from Lapsang, and Ic, 

 also a female, from the Samunda Pass. 



TADTJMIA SIMO (Plate 411, fig. 2, ?). 

 Parnnssius Simo, Gray, Catal. Lep. Brit. .Mus. Pap. p. 76, pi. 12, fig. 3, ? , 4, (^ (1852). Ehves, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lonil. 1S86, p. 35. Oberthiir, Etudes Eut. xiv. p. 14, pi. 1, fig. 8, 9 (IS91). 



Male. — Upperside yellowish-white ; fringe greyish-black on forewing, Avhite on 

 hindwing ; antenna3 black, Forewing with the base and costa slightly black speckled ; 

 a black broad bar across middle of the cell, and a broader discocellular bar, the latter 

 being widest in the middle ; a greyish-black transverse innei'-discal sinuous partly 

 speckled narrow band ; a medial-discal move regular sinuous band, and then a marginal 

 band. Hindwing with the base and abdominal border densely black speckled, the 

 speckles extending broadly outward to a point below the cell as far as the radial; 

 a costal small black spot very slightly centred with pale red, and a discal spot entirely 

 black ; followed by a submarginal row of narrow dentate Innules, and then a very 

 narrow outer marginal band. LTnderside glossy; markings as on the npperside, 

 except that on the hindwing the costal and discal spot is slightly centred with red ; 

 also with a basal black-speckled streak within the cell, and one below the cell, the 

 former being slightly red centred. 



Female. — Upperside. Both wings with similar markings as in male, except 

 that on the hindwing the costal and discal spot are each distinctlj^ centred with jjale 

 red. Underside paler, glossy ; mai-kings also much paler. On the hindwing the 

 costal and discal spot are each centred with brighter red, and there is a black-edged 

 streak within the cell, and a similar one below^ base of the cell. Fringe as in male. 



