02 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



base, no costal batid, outer marginal band grey with some black spots on its inner 

 margin, which become obsolescent towards the apex. Ilindwing brownish-grey, the 

 outer marginal band as above, but paler and more red, the sub-terminal spots pale 

 ochreous-brown ; a number of minute black spots edged with whitish, three in a line 

 basal, three sub-basal, one at the lower end of the cell, and nine in an outwardly curved, 

 somewhat irregular discal row, terminal line dark grey. Cilia grey. Antennae black, 

 ringed with white ; head and body dark brown above, whitish beneath ; eyes ringed 

 with white. 



Female like the male, generally darker, the blackish scales irrorating the base 

 of forewing, usually more extensive ; on the hind wing above there is often an indistinct 

 black discoidal line, and a discal series of black spots ; on the underside the black spots 

 are more distinct, especially on the hindwing. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ lyg- to 1^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas, Biluchistan, North- Western Europe. 



Distribution. — Kollar recorded it from Kashmir, Lang from Kasaoli to Upper 

 Kanawar and Naini Tal at 5,000 to 7,000 feet, Doherty from Kumaon, Mackinnon and 

 de Niceville from Mussuri, Leslie and Evans from Chitral ; we took many examples 

 at Kandahar, Quetta and Hassan Abdul, and we have it in our collection from Simla 

 and Thundiani in the Punjab. 



Note. — The above descriptions are from Kulu and Thundiani examples ; the 

 range of Chrysophanus pJilseas is so extensive, extending over a great part of the 

 Palearctic and Nearctic regions, it naturally has many local forms and races and many 

 varieties, most of them having been named by difterent authors ; in so far as our 

 limits of locality are concerned there are two local forms, de Niceville put them with 

 phlseas, but as these forms, though often flying together with -phlseas, vary much, 

 and more or less constantly, we think it is advisable to give descriptions and figures 

 of them. 



CHRYSOPHANUS TIMEUS. 



Plate 660, figs. 4, $ , -la, $ . 



Papilio timeus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 137, pi. 186, figs. E, F, $ (l"^)- 



Clmjsophanus timeus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 506. Butler, id. 1886, p. 368. 



Ch-ijsophamis llmseus, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 130. 



Chi-jjUiiphanus phlseas, de Niceville (part), Butt, of India, iii. p. 315, pi. 27, fig. 205, $ (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings almost entirely sutiused with brown, in 

 some examples entirely suffused, in others a little of the copper colour is visible in the 

 cell and upper disc of the forewing. 



Female with some copper colour always visible on the forewing, the hindwing 



