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and Evans from Chitral ; it is in our collection from Eala, Kosker, Kashmir and Murree, 

 and in the B. M. also from Goolmurg, Lahoul, 10,000 feet, Gundarbul, Goorais Valley, 

 Kangra and Kulu, 12,000 feet. 



CHRYSOPHANUS SUSANUS. 



Plate 662, figs. 1, (J, la, $, lb, $. 



Chrijsophanus susanus, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1889, p. 397. 



Chysoplianus caspius, var. transiens, de Niceville (nee Staudinger), Butt, of India, iii. p. 320, pi. 27, 

 fig. 206, (J (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brown, with a purplish tint, outer marginal line on both 

 wings finely black. Foreicing with a dull purplish gloss on the basal portion, the spots 

 of the underside showing more or less through the wing. Illndwing glossed with dull 

 purple in the middle portion of the wing, a black line closing the cell, a sub-marginal 

 series of black spots beyond which is a narrow white line towards the anal angle, a 

 filamentous tail, black with white tips. Underside whitish, marginal line to both wings 

 l)lack, spots black. Forewing with three cell spots, a large quadrate spot at the end of 

 the cell, an oval spot across the middle, and a smaller round spot towards the base, a 

 similar spot immediately below it, a round spot below the middle spot, and three 

 unequal-sized spots, divided by the veins, below the discoidal spot, the middle one the 

 largest, an S-shaped sub-apical series of four conjoined spots, the upper two small, a sub- 

 marginal macular band followed by an orange band and a marginal series of small spots. 

 Hindicing with a sub-basal series of four spots in a line, the lowest but one the 

 smallest, a similar discal series of larger spots, an oblong spot at the end of the cell, 

 and an outer discal series of six spots in pairs, the marginal series as in the forewing, 

 but the orange band is narrower. 



Female. Upperside suffused with brown. Forewing paler, with some copper 

 colour showing through the suffusion, three black cell spots at one-third, two-thirds and 

 at the end, the first sometimes obsolete. Ilindunng with indications of an orange 

 marginal band, clearer towards the anal angle, containing an anteciliary row of blackish 

 spots. Underside. Forewing with all but the basal third suffused with coppery-orange, 

 the three- cell spots as above, but larger, a smaller spot below the middle cell spot, a 

 discal row of eight small spots, the two lowest close together, terminal line black, a 

 sub-terminal series of larger blackish spots, the space beyond whitish and containing a 

 series of pale blackish linear marks close to the terminal line. Ilindwing suffused 

 with grey, a sub-basal spot near the costa, a small one below it, in the cell, a sub- 

 costal spot with a larger spot below it also in the cell, and another spot below 

 this, all three in a line, two small spots at the end of the cell, all the spots ringed 

 with white ; a discal series of eight spots, the marginal series as in the forewing, the 

 space between the two series white, the space between the outer and inner row of spots 



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