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which is black tipped with white ; marginal line black ; cilia white with a grey band in 

 it. Underside grey, spots black ringed with white. Forewing with a linear mark at 

 the end of the cell, a discal row of six spots, the upper one a little inwards, the lowest 

 one linear ; terminal line black, a row of rather large subterminal brown spots, which 

 become obsolete upwards, and between them an obscure row of smaller spots. Hind- 

 wing with two sub-basal spots, a discal whorl of nine spots, the upper one near the 

 apex, the second below it, the next four, commencing a little outwards, are in a slight 

 curve inwards, the next two geminate and placed outside, the last close to the 

 abdominal margin ,• terminal line black, the sub-terminal series of lunules sinuous, 

 brown on the upper and lower ends, between them a series of spots, the two above the 

 tail large and black, heavily capped with orange, edged inwardly with black lunules, 

 with a little white on their inner sides, these lunules forming the inner curve in the 

 sub-terminal series. 



Female. Upperside blackish -brown without any markings. Underside as in the 

 male, the ground colour darker. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body 

 black above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, $ % ly% inches. 



Habitat. — N. W. Himalayas. 



There are two pairs from Mandi in the B. M. 



EVERES PARRHASIUS. 



Plate 637, figs. 1, (J, la, 9, lb, (J, Ic, ? (Wet-season Brood), Id, ^, le, ? (Dry-season Brood;. 

 Hesperia parrhasius, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (i.) p. 289 (1793). 

 Papilio parrhasius, Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 14, fig. 5, ,J (1800). 

 Polyommatug parrTiasius, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 657 (1823). 

 Lycsena parrhasius, Horsfield, Cap. Lap. E.I.C. p. 86 (1829). Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. 



E.I.C. i. p. 22, pi. la, fig. 3, ^ (1857). 

 Lampides parrhasius, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 165 (1869). Semper, Journ. des Mus. Godef. 



xiv. p. 155 (1879). 

 Cupido parrhasius, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xxi. p. 19 (1878). 

 Everes parrhasius, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 85, pi. 36, fig. 7 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, 



p. 221 (woodcut (J) (1884). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 357. Watson, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 34. Chapman, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 373, pi. 20, fig. 8 (genitalia). 

 Everes argiades, de Niceville (part). Butt, of India, iii. p. 137 (1890). Manders (nee Pallas), Trans. 



Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 528. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 45. Betham, id. p. 178. 



Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 296. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 660. 



Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 380. de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1908, p. 885. Bingham 



(part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt, ii, p. 378 (1907). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, $, Ic ?). 

 Imago. — Male. Upperside dark greyish-blue, with a lilacine tint. Foreiving with 

 a black terminal band broadening slightly towards the apex. Hindwing with the costal 



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