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streaks and upper-discal spots being prominently silvery- white. Hindwing golden- 

 green, powdered with black scales ; a slightly black-edged silvery-white subbasal 

 slender broken streak, a dot in middle of the cell, an inner-discal outwardl3^-oblique 

 sinuous broken series of slender streaks, a prominent discal excurved row of 

 longitudinal narrow spots, and a submarginal row of triangular spots. 



Female. Upperside. Both wings with the fulvous ground-colour, as in male, 

 almost entirely overlaid with dark bronzy-greenish or grey scales, or these bronzy 

 scales are restricted to the basal areas, and the outer areas either greyish- black or deep 

 greyish-purple ; the black markings larger. Foreiving also with the middle cell-bar 

 placed on a fulvous ground, the disc with fulvous streaks between the veins, and a 

 submarginal series of whitish dentate spots, and a less-deflned inner submarginal upper 

 row of 23ale spots. Rindicing also with a more or less prominent curved discal series 

 of rich fulvous narrow spots, two submarginal series of dentate spots, either both 

 whitish or the inner is sometimes fulvescent. Underside. Both winors as in the male. 



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Expanse, c? ? 2^q to 2i^o inches. 



Habitat. — X.W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — " Several examples were taken about the middle of August, 1S83, 

 by Mr. J. C. Pyne (who accompanied Mr, J. F. Duthie on a trip into the Gurhwal 

 Himalayas) on the side of a mountain called Phulaldaru in the Nila A''alley. The 

 elevation must have been about 12,000 feet, and the locality in the territory of Tihri 

 Gurhwal " (L. de Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. 137). Specimens, taken as above noted, 

 are in the British Museum Collection, and have locality labels attached as follows : — 

 "Kalom Valley, 12,000 feet, August ; Bilang in Dhauli Valley, 13,000 to 14,000 

 feet; Kharga, 14,000, August; Phulaldaru, 14,000, August; and Soosa, 

 N. Kumaon." Cul. 0. Swinhoe and Mr. J. H. Leech have also specimens from the 

 Kali Valley, Tihri Gurhwal. Captain H. B. Hellard took it on the " JSTorth side of 

 the Rupin Pass, from about 12,000 feet to near the top of the Pass, in September " 

 (MS. Notes). "Mr. P. W. Mackinnon obtained this species in large numbers, 

 through his native collectors, from several places in Tihri Gurhwal, at considerable 

 elevations, in August " (L. de Xiceville, I.e. 16G). 



Chinese Specie.?. — Boloria dilutior (Argynuis Selene, rar. dilutior, Staudinger, 

 Rom. Mem. Lep. iii. p. 303 (1887). Habitat. I\lanchuria. — Boluria Perry i (Brenthis 

 Perryi, Butler, Ann. Xat. Hist. 1882, p. 16. Arg. Selene, vaj-. Perryi, Leech, Butt, of 

 China, i. p. 223, i)l. 24, fig. 13 (1893). Hahifat. Corea.— Boloria Gong (Argynnis 

 Gong, Oberthiir, Etudes Ent. ix. p. 15, pi. 2, fig. 9 (1884). Leech, Butt, of China, 

 i. p. 224. Eahiiat. W. China. — Boloria Charis (Argynnis Charis, Oberthiir, Et. 

 Ent. XV. p. 8, pi. 1, fig. 4 (1891). Habitat. Yunan. — Boloria Rhea (Argynnis 

 Rhea, Gr. Gr. Horaj Ross. 1891, p. 456. Leech, I.e. pi. 24, fig. 15, 3. Habitat. 

 E. Tibet; W. China. 



