98 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Female. Upperside as in the male, except that on the foi-ewing the disco- 

 cellular black streak is broader, and the subapical streak fulvous posteriorly ; and 

 in the hindwing the marginal dentate yellow spots are somewhat larger. Underside 

 as in the male ; the outer area duller grey, the strigas less prominent, and the white 

 comma-shaped mark more or less ill-defined. 



Expanse, S 2^^, ? 2^^ inches. 



Dry-season form (Plate 318, fig. 2, d, e, ? ). 



Male and female. Upperside fulvous-yellow ; markings as in the wet-season 

 form, but the black spots somewhat smaller and less sharply defined, the yellow 

 dentate spots also less defined. Underside paler than in wet-season form, the 

 ground-colour being dull ochreous greyish-brown ; markings similar. 



Expanse, S 1^^, ? 2^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Europe ; Asia Minor ; Persia ; Western Himalayas. 



Distribution within our aeea. — We possess specimens of the wet-season form 

 from Gulmurg and Sunamurg, Kashmir, taken by Capt. A. M. Lang, and of the 

 dry-season form from Kashmir, taken by Capt. R. Bayne Reed. Capt. Lang records 

 it as " apparently common at Gulmurg, Kashmir" (Bnt. Monthly Mag. 1868, 34). 

 Mr. J. H. Leech has specimens from Kylang, 13,000 feet elevation, taken by Capt. 

 MacArthur in September, from Gurais Valley, 7000 feet, Kashmir, taken by himself 

 in September; from Dugi Pass, 12,000 feet elevation, near Karakorum, taken in 

 August and September by Capt. Thompson. 



Of our illustrations on Plate 318, figs. 2, 2a, b, c, are from wet-season male and 

 female Kylang specimens in Mr. Leech's collection, and figs. 2d, e, from dry-season 

 female from Kashmir, taken by Capt. Reed. 



POLYGONIA COGNATA. 



Wet -season form (Plate 319, fig. 1, la, (J). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside similar to, but of a paler fulvous than, 

 C-aJbum, as here described. Foreiving with the cell spot united and larger, the 

 discocellular streak broader, the lower discal spot larger and with a small speckled- 

 spot above it. Hindwing with the discal spots larger ; the outer marginal band 

 broader, more uneven on its inner edge and traversed by an almost continuous 

 series of narrow yellow lunules. Underside with the ground-colour throughout 

 uniformly dark greyish sepia-brown, the strigEe less sharply defined, white comma- 

 shaped mark prominent. 



Expanse, c? 2, ? 2j"o inches. 



