90 LEPIDOPTERA IXDICA. 



the female ; submarginal black border narrow and traversed by a single pale lunular 

 line. Hindwing with the black base bordered outwardly by clear yellow, the sub- 

 marginal row of blue-centred black dentate spots slightly, or in most, narrowly 

 bordered inwardly by the dusky band. Underside much darker than in Kashmirensis ; 

 markings similar. 



Expanse, c? 9 In) to 2 inches. 



Habitat. — N.-W. Himalayas. 



DisTKiBUTioN. — The type specimen was taken at Chini, at 9000 feet elevation, 

 3\Iiddle Kunawur, in October. Capt. A. !M. Lang also obtained it in Kunawur, at 

 10,000 feet elevation, and Dr. Jerdon at Gulmurg in Kashmir. Capt. H. B. Hellard 

 took it in the " Rupin Pass at about 13,000 feet elevation in September, another seen 

 near top of the Pass, which is about 15,000 feet elevation" (MS. Xotes). Col. C. 

 Swinhoe has examples from Kulu. In Mr. J. H. Leech's Collection are specimens 

 from Sultanpur, Kulu, taken by Capt. Graham Young ; the Goorais Valley, 7000 feet 

 elevation, Kashmir, taken in June ; Dugi Pass, 12,000 feet, taken in August and 

 September by Capt. Thompson, and from the Kuti Pass, 17,000 feet elevation, taken 

 in September by Capt. McArthur. Mr. L. de Xiceville records " a few specimens, 

 obtained from time to time at very high elevations in native Sikkim, by native 

 collectors " (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 145). 



AGLAIS LADAKENSIS (Plate 317, fig. 2, 23, ^ ? ), 



Vanessa Ladah-eiuis, Moore, Annals Xat. Hist. 1878, p. 227; Yarkund Exped. Lep. p. 2, pi. 1, fig. 2 

 (1879). Elwes.Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 403. Doherty, Joum. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 122. 

 de Xice'ville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 234 (1886). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 362. 



Male and female. Nearest allied to A. Bizana. Both wings with the outer 

 margin less angled. Upperside with similarly-disposed markings, the black 

 markings somewhat duller and less sharply defined and the red colour less intense. 

 Forewing with the two upper black bands merging into or being confluent with the 

 discal oblique band below the cell ; the outer yellow band from the costa is wider 

 and extends across the wing to the posterior margin, enclosing the two small black 

 discal spots, this band being difTusedly-bordered with red outwardly and inwardly 

 below the median veinlets ; the subbasal red band is narrower. On the hindwing 

 the black basal area has its discal edge more irregular and more diffusedly yellow- 

 bordered. Other markings similar. L^nderside. Ground-colour much paler than 

 n A. Bizana, the strigge also paler, the cell interspaces between the bars and the 

 discal transverse fascia of the forewing more defined, the black discal hne on hind- 

 wing more irregular. 



