138 W. Doliert}^ — A List of Butterflies taken in Kumaon. [No. 2, 



249. Abaeatha saraya, n. sp. One male, Bagheswar on the Sarju 

 (the Sarayu or Saraya of the Sanskrit poets), 3,600 feet. 



Agrees with Mr. Moore's description of the genus Aharatha except 

 that the apex of the forewing is not acute but right-angled, that of 

 the hindwing decidedly rounded. The outer margin of the hindwing 

 is also more scalloped, and less irregularly angulate. Above, fuscous 

 with the following tawny -ochreous marks : a line of streaks just 

 within the margin ; a line of square spots from the costa to the upper 

 median branch, continued to the hind margin by a series of larger 

 and more irregular blurs, removed further from the outer m.argin ; a 

 dull area just beyond the cell, from costa to the middle median ; three 

 large irregular spots occupying the middle of the cell, and the two 

 spaces below between the submedian and the middle median. Also 

 the following translucent spots ; five apical ones, the upper three elongate 

 and approximate ; one at the end of the cell, almost bifid, with a 

 dot on the costa above it; four on the disc from the submedian 

 to the upper median, the second from above largest of all and adjoining 

 that at the end of the cell. Also one in the cell near the base. All 

 these are surrounded by blackish rings above and below. A blackish 

 marginal line ; cilia long, alternately black and whitish. Hindwing 

 rusty ochreous, with a marginal dark line, and a discal, a cellular 

 and a sub-marginal row of dusky spots, but no translucent ones. Below 

 paler ochreous, without any rufous tinge, the translucent spots set in 

 email blackish patches, a submarginal line of joined dusky spots, and a 

 dark streak near the base from the submedian to the median veins. 

 Sindwing with a black transverse streak at the end of the cell, a 

 fainter one nearer the base of the cell, and a circle of large and con- 

 spicuous black spots, nine in all, round the disc, whereof two are between 

 the costal and the subcostal, and two between the median and the 

 submedian veins ; whitish hairs at the extreme base. Body dull ferrugi- 

 nous above, whitish below. Female unknown. 



Differs from ransonnetii, Felder, its nearest ally, in the absence 

 of all white on the disc below. In colouring it is somewhat inter- 

 mediate between ransonnetii and the curious Aharatha agama of Sikkim, 

 which seems to mimic Argynnis isscea. 



250. Antigonus angulatus, Feld. Lower Sarju valley, 2 — 3,000 

 feet. 



251. Halpe separata, Moore. Khati and Dwali, Pindari valley, 7 — 

 9,000 feet. The female differs from the male in the larger size and 

 squarer shape of the apical and cellular translucent spots. In the male 

 the outer discal spot is sometimes wanting. 



252. IsoTEiNON MASURiENSiB, Moorc. Lolidrkhet, N. W. Kumaon, 

 7,000 feet. 



