24G LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Foreioing paler fulvous, the costal and apical area yellow ; apical markings obscurely 

 castaneous-red ; cell and discal mai'ks obsolete, Hindicinc/. Ground-colour yellow, 

 tbe abdominal margin pale olive-brown ; markings similarly disposed as in Pale.-; 

 and Sijinra, but differ in the basal castaneous band being narrower and directed more 

 obliquely inward to the costa, the portions of its outer pearly-white border being 

 broader, the adjoining upper-discal yellow area is twice as broad, and the yellow 

 colour extends through the npper median interspace to outer-discal border, the 

 ordinary outer-discal small black spot being absent in this interspace; the lower 

 portion of the medial-discal pearly-white lunnles is much longer and more prominent ; 

 the marginal pearly-white spot less prominent. 



Female. Vpperside slightly paler fulvous than in male. Both wings with the cell, 

 discal, and outer markinsfs somewhat more defined. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, S 1^,, ? 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Xamangan, Tian Tchan, Turkestan ; Skoro La, W. Ladak ; X. 

 Afghanistan. 



DisTRiBUTiox. — Specimens of both sexes from Xamangan ; Kashgar ; and 

 from Hunza, are in the British Museum Collection, and a male and female from 

 Murgarh, X. Afghanistan, in Mr. P. Crowley's Collection. Mr. J. H. Leech took 

 several specimens at Skoro La, 15,000 feet elevation, in July. 



Our illustrations of this species on Plate 376, fig. 1, la, b, are from a male and 

 female example taken b}' Mr. Leech at Skoro La. 



BOLORIA HEGEMONE (Plate 376, fig. 2, 2a, ^). 



Argynnis Hegemone, Staudinger, MS. Alpherakj-, Horse Soc. Ent. Ross. xvi. p. 40", pi. 15, fig. 16,17, 

 c? ? (1B82). 



Imago.— Male. L^pperside pale fulvous, base of Iwth wings greyish-black. 

 Cilia whitish. Foreviiuj yellowish along the costa ; a slightly-defined black very 

 slender short bar near base of the cell, a recurved broader bar across middle of the 

 cell and a streak at end of cell ; a transverse inner-discal irregular zigzag series of 

 slender short bars, the lowest being angled ; a slender short bar also present below 

 the cell in the submedian interspace; followed by an outer-discal row of conical 

 spots ; a submarginal row of smaller dentate continuous lunules, which are 

 coalescent with the marginal line. Himhring with a black narrow bar near outer 

 end of the cell which is joined to a short bar on upper end of the discocellular ; 

 an inner-discal zigzag series of slender short lunate bars, followed by 

 an outer-discal row of sis rounded spots, a submarginal row of dentate 

 lunules coalescing with the marginal Hue. Underside paler fulvous. Forewing with 

 the costa, apex, and outer margin whitish ; the cell and discal and outer markings 



