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the outer margin, all these l)order bauds only indistinctly indicated. Cilia white with 

 grey tips, and its base brown ; tail black tipped with white, abdominal fold pale ; outer 

 margin somewhat scalloped. Underside pale chocolate-brown, sometimes with a slight 

 ochreous tint, markings dark brown. Forewlng with a bar at the end of the cell, edged 

 with white, a discal outwardly curved band of moderate width, from the costa to a little 

 lower than vein 2, outwardly edged with white, a sub-marginal band of thick lunules, 

 with a white lunular line immediately beyond it, a sub-terminal series of pale lunular 

 marks, a pale terminal line and an anteciliary dark line. Hindwing with a broader 

 discal band with a slightly sinuous outer edge, from the costa straight down to the 

 median vein (attached to the bar closing the cell, which is inwardly edged with white), 

 pushed a little forward on the median vein, runs down to vein 2, then inwards in an 

 acutely angled form, and then runs on to the middle of the abdominal margin in a 

 straight line, and is outwardly edged with white throughout, a slightly narrower sub- 

 marginal band, well separated from the margin and in continuation of the discal band 

 of the forewing, inwardly edged with black lunules, and ending in a sub-terminal black 

 spot in the first interspace, a small black spot at the anal angle, another close to it, all 

 three capped with orange, a series of pale marks close to the margin, a marginal white 

 line and anteciliary brown line. Antennae black, ringed with white, the club with an 

 orange tip ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside generally darker than the male, without any gloss. Foreicing 

 with an ochreous-orange spot outside the end of the cell, and another beyond it in the next 

 lower interspace. Hindwing as in the male, and so also is the underside of both wings. 



Expanse of wings, $ IfV to ly^-, ? 1^-^ to I^q inches. 



Habitat. — North-Western Himalayas, China. 



Distribution. — We have it from Simla, and a typical male from Omei-shan in 

 Central China ; Mackinnon and de Niceville record it from Mussuri, Doherty from 

 Kumaon, 9,000 to 11,000 feet elevation ; de Niceville says he took it in the Jalawri Pass, 

 between Kulu and Simla ; Grahame Young took it in Kulu at 7,000 feet, 8,000 feet to 

 9,000 feet elevation, and that it does not appear to be a common species ; it is in the 

 B. M. also from Bhagi and Huttoo, and several parts of Western China. 



RURALIS MANDARA. 



Thecla mandara, Dolierly, Jourii. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 130. 

 Zephyrus mandara, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 308 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Allied to Z. icana, Moore, but whereas that species is (on the 

 upperside) metallic over the disc of the hindwing and most of the forewing, interrupted 

 by black veins, and appears green in some lights and violet in others, this species is 

 only touched with obscure violet close to the base of the forewing ; the disc has a faint 



