166 LEPIDOPTEBA INDIGA. 



scales. Hindwing dusky black with blue-grey irrorations on the abdominal third, a 

 large crimson patch at the end of the cell with an exterior tooth, three or four pale 

 discal spots, often absent. Cilia of both wings crimson. Underside as in the male, but 

 in the orange-vermilion form the interior portion of the forewing is suffused with 

 bright crimson. 



Palpi above, antennae and collar crimson, body above greyish-black ; below it is 

 coloured like the wings ; legs crimson. 



Expanse, $ % 1^ to 2 inches. 



Habitat.— N.W. Himalayas. 



DiSTRiBUTiOK. — Sikkim, Kashmir, Ladak, Chitral, Thibet in B. M,, and de Niceville 

 reports it from the Great Pamir and from the Little Pamir. 



EURYMUS STOLICZKANA. 

 Plate 605, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, 5 , 3b, ? (dimorpliic form). 



Colias Stoliczkana, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 229 ; id. Sci. Res. Tarkand Mission, p. 4, 

 pi. 1, fig. 1 (1879). Elwes, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 46-5. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. 

 India, Butt. ii. p. 242 (1907). 



Colias Eogene, var. Stoliczkana, Alpheraky, Rom. Mem. Lep. v. p. 74, pi. 4, figs. 4a, 4b, 4c, ^ $ . 

 Verity, Rhop. Palearctica, p. 247, pi. 43, figs. 22 to 24, and pi. 44, fig. 2 (1909). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside of a uniform orange-ochreous colour. Forewing with 

 a small patch of blackish scales at the base, some ochreous-white scales on the costa 

 near the base, a brown, almost linear spot with a pale centre at the end of the cell, 

 and a broad dull black marginal band as in Leechi. liindiving with the abdominal 

 third irrorated with blackish scales, and a marginal band as in Leechi. Cilia of both 

 wings pinkish-white. Underside also similar. 



Female. Upperside generally white, in some specimens the interior of both wings 

 is more or less tinged with bright ochreous-orange. Forewing with the veins blackish, 

 the cell spot black, the outer marginal band about the depth of that in the male, a 

 complete row of spear-shaped, large whitish spots across its middle, one in each 

 interspace, decreasing in size upwards, the row bending in on to the costa, the lower 

 spots connected by whitish lines to the exterior margin. Hindwing. Upperside more 

 or less densely irrorated with black scales, a large round orange spot at the end of the 

 cell, a row of large spots on the outer border, each connected with the margin as in the 

 forewing, the upper part of the band very black. Cilia of both wings whitish. 

 Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, J ? 2 inches. 



Habitat.— N.W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. — The type came from Ladak, recorded from Cashmir and Sikkim 

 above 15,000 feet ; in the B. M. from Chong Ching Valley and Kardoug Pass. 



