252 LEPIDOPTEEA INBICA. 



BOLORIA MACKINNONII (Plate 377, fig. 3, 3a, S ? )■ 



Argynnis MaeHnnonii, de ^Xiceville, Journ. Bombay Xat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 3-16, pi. F, 

 figs. 4, 5, <? 9). 



Imago. — " Male. Upperside. Botli wiugs bright fulvous, the base more or less 

 heavily irrorated with black. Foreiving with the usual double zigzag black lines 

 across the middle of the discoidal cell, a black streak closing the cell, and exactly 

 midway between these streaks is another narrowest one extending across the cell ; 

 the disc bears three series of black spots — the first is placed irregularly just beyond 

 the cell, and consists of six irregularly-shaped spots, the second consists of a regularly 

 sinuous series of seven round spots, the third of eight cordiform spots, following the 

 outline of the outer margin ; this latter is narrowly black ; a small triangular black 

 patch on the costa placed just within the middle series of black spots. Himhring 

 with a pair of elongated streaks joined at both ends at the end of the cell, a curved 

 series of spots immediately beyond the cell, then another series of five or six rounded 

 spots, followed by a series of seven lunulated spots, between these latter and the 

 black outer margin is a series of pale fulvous spots which are much more distinct in 

 some specimens than in others. Underside. Foreiving bright fulvous ; all the black 

 spots of the upperside present but much smaller ; an oblique apical rich castaneous 

 streak, inwardly marked with two outwardly by four silvery spots. Bindwing with 

 the ground-colour much more j-ellow than in the forewing, the base bearing large 

 blotches of rich castaneous, with prominent discal and marginal bands of the same 

 colour ; with the following silvery spots : — a small one placed on the precostal 

 nervure, one filling the base of the costal interspace, and a large one placed obliquely 

 across its middle ; a small round spot in the middle of the cell, a large elongated 

 one filling its outer end, joined to another elongated spot in the discoidal interspace 

 reaching to the outer edge of the discal rich castaneous band, this latter bears on its 

 outer edge a series of seven more or less wedge-shaped spots, the uppermost of which 

 in the costal interspace is much the largest ; an elongated narrow silvery streak in 

 the submedian interspace, which spi'ings from the base of the wing and ends on the 

 inner edge of the rich castaneous discal band, the streak is quite separated or broken 

 into two portions at about its middle ; there is a second narrow streak in the internal 

 interspace, w^hich commences opposite the point where the streak in the submedian 

 interspace is broken and reaches the abdominal margin ; a very indistinct somewhat 

 ocellular series of spots placed in the middle of the band of the ground-colour between 

 the discal and marginal rich castaneous bands ; the latter bearing a prominent series 

 of more or less oval silvery spots, one in each interspace. Cilia of both wings on 

 the upperside pale fulvous, of the forewing on the underside on the apical half of 

 the wing pale fulvous alternated with darker fulvous, on the hindwing pale fulvous 

 throughout. 



