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clothed with fine long greyish-white hairs; a costal black-edged small spot, and a 

 very large discal more or less rounded spot, both centred with either pale dull i-ed or 

 dark crimson, the discal spot being pupllled with a cluster of pure white scales ; 

 beyond is a pale grey-black irregular subraarginal and a narrow marginal regular 

 band, the submarginal bearing five large black oval or conically-oval spots, which 

 are thickly speckled anteriorly with distinct blue-grey scales. Underside duller 

 white, glossy; l)oth wings marked as on upperside, but less prominently. 

 Hindwing also with a subbasal blnck-speckled irregular band extending broadly from 

 the costal vein and then more narrowly along end and across the cell ; costal and 

 discal spot centred with dark reddish-purple, the anal bar sometimes also being 

 slightly speckled with reddish-purple scales. 



Femalk. — Upperside similar to the male, except that on the foreirivKj the inner- 

 discal zigzag band is somewhat narrower, and on the hhiihoiiuj the costal and discal 

 and the anal bar are each centred with pale dull red. Underside as in the male, 

 except that on the hiiulwivg the base and abdominal margin is speckled with white 

 scales, and the anal bar, as on upperside, is centred with dark reddish-purple. Tlie 

 thorax and abdomen above is deep black, the latter with a few pale liairs, and 

 slender white segmental bands. Anal pouch large, circularly horn-shaped, tubular, 

 equally broad beneath, flattened and transversely wrinkled along its middle, and 

 the sides convex, from base to apex. 



Expanse, c? ? 3/(j to 3y% inches. 



Haditat. — Ladak; N.W. Himalayas. 



DiSTKir.UTiON and HAnrrs.^The type-specimen, a female, from Ladak, taken by 

 Major Charlton, a female, also from Ladak, taken by Mr. F. E. S. Adair, both sexes 

 from the Shishi Kul Valley, 9000 to 14,000 feet elevation, Chitral, taken in July and 

 August, by Col. Lome Campbell and Capt. G. LL Colonjb, and a female from 

 Runang Pass, 14,000 feet, Kumaon, in Coll. Hewitson, are in the British Museum. 

 A male from Kokon, Lahoul, in Mr. F. Godman's Collection ; two females from 

 Kashmir in Mr. P. Crowley's Collection. Both sexes from Kokser, Lahoul, 12,000 

 to 14,000 feet, taken by Capt. Graham Young, in Mr. W. Rothschild's Collection ; and 

 a female, from Kharbu, 13,000 feet, Ladak, taken by Dr. Stoliczka, in our own 

 Collection, Capt. A. M. Lang records it as " a rare species. I caught it in J\xly, 

 on but two Passes, the Runang and Hungrung— at the former in company with 

 I'. Ilardwickii, and at the latter with roniia Nina. I saw many more than I caught, 

 for, as may be imagined, rapid pursuit, now up a steep hill-side, now down, and tlien 

 up again, at 14,000 to 15,000 feet altitude above the sea, is trying to tlie best of 

 lungs. This species has a peculiar flight, swimming very fast and close to the 

 ground in a zigzag course, as if beating the ground like a hen harrier beating a 

 meadow " (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, 4S8). Mr. P. W. Mackinnon records it as " rare ; 



