108 NTMPHA.LID^. 



127. Rhaphicera moorei, Butler, A. M. N. H. (3) xix, 1867, p. 164, 



pi. 4, fig. 4 2 ; M. § de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 176, pi. 15, 

 fig. 38 S J Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 4, pi. 95, figs. 3, 

 3«, c?$. 

 c? $ . This form may be simply a local race of B. satricus, 

 which it resembles very closely. The differences 

 are the following : — Ground-colour : upperside 

 ochraceous dusky yellow, not rich orange, the 

 black markings proportionately more extensive, 

 giving the insect an appearance of being dusky 

 black spotted with yellow ; bases of fore and 

 hind wings and the posterior half of the latter 

 thickly sprinkled with dusky brown scales. 

 Underside dull ochraceous yellow, the markings 

 as in B. satricus, but the cell of the hind wing 

 Fig. 26. crossed by two or three slender oblique black 



Bhaphicera moorei. lines. Antenna?, head, thorax and abdomen 

 dull brown. 

 Escp. 6 2 48-60 mm. (1-9-2-35"). 

 Hah. N.W. Himalayas to the borders of Sikhim. 



Genus AGAPETES. 



Arge, Hilbner (nee Schrank), Verz. hek. Schmett. 1816, p. 60. 

 Agapetes, Bilberg (teste Scudder), Enum. Ins. 1820, p. 78. 

 Melanargia, Meigen, Eur, Schmett. i, 1829, p. 97. 



Type, A. galatliea, from Britain and Europe generally. 



Mange. Palsearctic Eegion. Within our limits the mountainous 

 country on the extreme western frontier of Burma. 



<S 2 • Pore wing : costa widely arched ; termen convex ; 

 dorsum straight ; apex distinct, not rounded ; cell over half length 

 of wing ; upper discocellular minute, middle and lower concave ; 

 vein 5 closer to 6 than to 4, 6 and 7 from a point or closely approxi- 

 mate, 10 and 11 from before apex of cell, 12 inflated at base. 

 Hind wing broadly oval ; cell short, less than half length of wing ; 

 discocellulars very oblique ; vein 3 from well before, 4 from apex 

 of cell, latter slightly curved upwards, 6 about equidistant from 

 5 and 7. Antennae stout, about half length of fore wing ; club 

 gradual, slightly compressed; palpi porrect, fringed with hairs 

 anteriorly to apex, third joint long ; intermediate femora scaled, 

 not hairy, grooved beneath. 



128. Agapetes halimede, Menetries (Arge), Bull. Acad. Petr. xvii, 



1859, p. 216 ; Leech (Melanargia), Butt. China, i, 1892-94, p. 59, 

 pi. 11, fig. 7 cf (var. montana). 



6 2 • Upperside — fore wing : the cell, basal half of interspaces 

 2 and 3, two-thirds of the costa narrowly, a curved series of 

 elongate spots in the interspaces from costa beyond apex of cell 

 to near tornus, and three obliquely-placed preapical streaks 

 white; the dorsum, termen and apex broadly, and an irregular 

 oblique discal band black. Hind wing white ; a short transverse 



