NYMPHALINjE. (G'onp argynnina.) 253 



"Female. Upperside. Both wings darker fulvous than iu the male, all the black 

 spots larger, the black basal irroratiou much more extensive, completely filling the 

 sutural area of the forewing, the outei' margin broadly black, bearing a series of very 

 pale yellow, almost whitish, spots. Underside. Foreming as in the male, but all the 

 markings more prominent. Hincliring with the ground-colour more of a greenish 

 tinge, the ricli castaneous bands and the silvery spots more prominent. Cilia very 

 pale yellowish, almost white, on the forewing prominently, on the hindwing obscurely 

 alternated with darker." 



Expanse, d' 1 i^„ to 1 1%, ? ] ^^ to Ij^y inch. 



Habitat. — Busabir, N.AV. Hii^alayas. 



.Distribution. — " Taken by Mr. P. W. Mackinnou's native collectors in the upper 

 part of the Buspa Valley, an affluent of the Sutlej, at 11,000 feet elevation, and in 

 the Gonas Pass, in August" (Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1.^98, 372). Tlie two 

 specimens referred to l)y j\lr. Butlei", in his description of A. ijemmnta, as iiaving 

 been taken by Major Cbai-lton, are identical with Mr. de Niceville's figure of 

 A. Macl-iinmni. 



BOLORIA CLARA (Plate 378, (Ig. 1, la, b, c, d, e, ^ <}). 



Ari/ymiis Clara, Blanchard, Jaequemont's Voy. daus I'liide, iv. p. 20; Ins. pi. 2, fig. 2, 3, ^ (1844). 

 de Nict'ville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 136 (188G); Jouru. Hombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 18s9, p. 165, 

 pi. A, fig. 6, 9 . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Ground-colour of various shades of dull fnlvous, 

 base thickly irrorated with dusky olivesceut fulvous-brown scales, in some the outer 

 borders are also slightly powdered with dusky scales ; veins black lined ; cilia white 

 alternated with black. Forewing with the vpjter, cuddle and loicer median and the 

 suhmedian, for a portion of their length fi-orn the base thickened wnth hlacJ:, raised 

 androconial scales ; a black reniform mark in middle of the cell, a comma-shaped streak 

 beyond and then a duplex mark at end of the cell ; a transverse iuner-discal sinuous 

 series of narrow somewhat quadrate spots, a diffused subapical costal streak, an 

 outer-discal row of seven rounded spots, followed by a subraarginal series of narrow- 

 dentated lunules bordeiing an inner marginal line, and then an outer marginal line ; 

 the interspaces of submarginal dentate marks being slightly paler than the ground- 

 colour. Hindwing with a black quadrate spot at end of the cell, an inner-discal 

 sinuous series of narrow angled spots, an outer-discal row of cordate sjDots, followed 

 by a submarginal row of lunules, bordering an inner-submarginal line with slightly 

 paler interspaces than the ground-colour, and then an outer marginal line. Under- 

 side. Fiireiring paler, but of a redder-fulvous ; the Ijlack markings as above, but 

 less prominent, the interspaces of submarginal dentate marks and of the subapical 



