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Bergal, 1886, p. 136. Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 119. de Nicxville, Journ. Bombay N. IT. 

 Soc. 1898, p. 589. Dixey, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1905, p. 38. 

 Qonepieryx Wallichii, Ling. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, p. 101. 



Both sexes witli tlie middle of the costa of forewing slightly constricted or 

 depressed, and the apex more prolonged and acutely pointed ; the hindwing more 

 deeply and broadly dentated than in Nepalensls. Both sexes also with the costal and 

 outer area of both wings more or less wrinkled with transverse impressed strig« 

 between the veins ; and the subcostal median and submedian vein of the Jiindiving 

 thickened, and clothed beneath with raised scales. 



Male. Upperside. Foreiving sulphxir-jellow; a few black scales at the base; 

 extreme costa anteriorly, and outer margin anteriorly with its cilia, more or less very 

 slenderly edged with ferruginous-black scales, the vein tips being indicated by a 

 more distinct pointed dot ; the discocellular ferruginous-red spot very small. 

 Hindiving pale olivescent yellowish-white ; a few black scales at the base ; 

 the tip of lower veins, and cilia, ferruginous-black ; discocellular ferruginous-red 

 spot small, somewhat triangular. Underside pale olivescent yellowish-white ; 

 discocellular spot purplish-black ; vein tips as above. Forewing with a sub- 

 apical excurved series of four or five minute black-scaled very slender short streaks, 

 one in each interspace. Eindtulng also with a lower discal similar series of minute 

 black dots. 



Female. Upperside. Both wdngs pale olivescent yellowish-white, impressed 

 with strigse as in the male ; discocellular spot paler ; vein tips less distinct. 

 Underside paler ; vein tips distinct; discocellular spot much paler. Forewing with 

 pubapical series of minute streaks, and liindwing with lower discal dots as in male. 

 Body white ; abdomen above blackish ; antenna3 greyish-black above, whitish beneath. 

 Expanse, c? 2 to 2|, ? 2 inches. 

 Habitat. — N. W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — Oapt. A. M. Lang writes {Epist. July, 1865), " This is an 

 inhabitant of rich forests 6,000 to 8,000 feet elevation, in Upper Ktmawur. I have 

 seen it only in the thick dark forests about Kotgurh and Narkunda. I have also 

 taken it in ISTarkunda and Phagoo from April to June. It is a wonderful insect for 

 remaining always in a normally battered faded condition. 1 have seen a good many 

 this year (18(>5) and last year, but not one specimen could I keep, so utterly worn 

 and poor were they all." Specimens from Narkuuda, taken in October, and Jalouri 

 Pass in May, are in Mr. J. H. Leech's Collection. Mr, P. W. Mackinnon records it 

 as " rare ; occurring in Masuri, and in the interior from April to August " (J. Bombay 

 N. H. S. 1898, 589). Mr. W. Doherty obtained it at " Naini Tal, Lohughat, in 

 Kumaon, at 6,000 to 8,000 feet elevation " (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 136). We verified 

 a specimen in Mr. W. S. Atkinson's Collection, labelled " Nowboog, Kaschmir, 



