170 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Female. Upperside. Forew'mg orange-yellow, base and upper portions irrorated 

 wit^li dusky black scales, markings similar to the male. Hlndwing as in the male, but 

 the basal and medial areas darker, almost black, the broad outer marginal band much 

 irrorated with blackish scales. Underside as in the male, but paler. Antennae of both 

 sexes bright red-pink ; head, thorax and abdomen blackish above. 



Expanse, $ $ 2x'V to 2^*^ inches. 



Habitat. — Khamba Jong, Gyantse, Tibet. Elwes says the females vary much as 

 is usual in the genus, and Nina is an extreme form ; both of Fawcett's types are females, 

 and Elwes says he has received a long series from the same locality. 



EURYMUS WISKOTTI. 



Plate 605, figs. 1, $,U, 9. 

 Colias Wislotti, Staudinger, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 166, pi. 2, figs. 9, 10, (J ? . Grum-Grshimailo, 



Rom. Mem. iv. p. 347 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 210 (1907). Verity, 



Rhop. Palearctica, p. 260, pi. 46, figs. 1 to 3 (1909). 

 Colias WisJcotti, ab. Lenca, Staudinger, I.e. p. 167, 9 • 

 Colias Wishotti, var. Separata, Grum-Grshimailo, Hor. Ent. Ross. xxii. p. 305 (1888); id. Rom. 



Mem. iv. p. 349, pi. 4, figs. 3, a, b (1890). 

 Colias Wishotti, var. Seres, Grum-Grshimailo, I.e. p. 353, J . 

 Colias WisJcotti, ah. Leucotheme, Grum-Grshimailo, I.e. p. 351, $. 

 Colias Wishotti, var. Sagina, Austant. Natur. 1891, p. 99. Staudinger, Iris, 1891, p. 232. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale orange-yellow. Forewing suffused more or less 

 with orange, some blackish-green irrorations on the lower base, a large black spot at 

 the end of the cell, and a very deep dull black marginal border, occupying more than a 

 third of the wing, of a fairly uniform breadth, its inner edge scalloped above the middle 

 and bent inward on to the costa, its lower edge angled and then runs inwards on the 

 lower margin to its middle, llindwing irrorated with blackish-green scales, a large 

 orange, round spot at the end of the cell and a deep black marginal border, which 

 generally stops abruptly on vein 2 ; the veins through the border whitish, and often 

 this is the case also on the forewing. Underside dull whitish-yellow, very uniform in 

 colour on both wings. Forewing with a black cell spot. Hindicing very sparsely 

 irrorated with greenish scales, a whitish spot at the upper end of the cell. Cilia of 

 both wings white. 



Female. Upperside bright ochreous-orange. Foreicing with the cell spot and 

 outer band as in the male, but the band has generally three or four pale spots. Hind- 

 loing covered with greenish-grey irrorations, an orange cell spot, and the band about as 

 broad as in the male, but suflFused hindwards, where it has some pale streaks. Cilia 

 orange and white. Underside as in the male, but some examples have the inner 

 portion of the forewing suffused more or less with orange, and there are three or four 

 lower discal black spots. 



