SATYET7S. Ill 



the fore wing inwardly bordered by a broad, pale, short line ; the 

 raised band of specialized scales absent. 



Exp. 6 2 56-58 mm. (2-25-2-3"). 



Hab. The Himalayas eastwards to Sikhim. 



130. Satyrus maerula, Felder (Lasiommata), Novara Reise, Lep. Rlwp. 



1867, p. 496 S ; M. $ de N. (Arnecera) Butt. Lid. i, 1883, 

 p. 180 ; Moore (Lasiommata), Lep. Lnd. ii, 1893-96, p. 8, pi. 96, 

 figs. 2, 2a, 2b, J2. 

 Lasiommata laurion, de N. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x (1895), p. 15, 

 pi. K, figs. 5, 6, S 2 • 



3 2 • Almost identical in ground-colour and markings with 

 S. schahra, but the <S entirely lacks the secondary sex-mark, 

 while the yellow on the disc of the fore wing on the underside is 

 slightly more extended, in both sexes encroaching on the dull pale 

 brown of the cell. 



Exp. <$ 2 56-58 mm. (2-25-2-3"). 



Hah. Kashmir ; Dalhousie : Pangi ; Gonas Pass, N.W. 

 Himalayas. 



131. Satyrus menava, Moore (Lasiommata), P. Z. S. 1865, p. 499, 



pi. 30, fig. 3 cJ; Butler (Arnecera), A. M. N. H. (3) xix, 1867. 

 p. 163 ; M. Sr de N. (Arnecera) Butt. Lnd. i, 1883, p. 180; Moore 

 (Lasiommata), Lep. lnd. ii, 1893-96, p. 9, pi. 96, figs. 4, 4#, J § . 

 Lasiommata maeroides, Felder, Nov. Reise, Lep. Rhop. 1867, p. 496. 

 pi. 69, fig. 1$. 



<5 . Upperside very dark ochraceous brown, the dark bands or 

 lines on the underside showing through by transparency; cilia 

 white, black at the apices of the veins. Pore wing with a sub- 

 apical black, white-centred, yellow-ringed ocellus, and a much 

 smaller but similar ocellus nearer the apex. Hind wing uniform, 

 the lower outer area near the tornus with two, sometimes three, 

 ocelli similar to those on the fore wing, the subtornal one the 

 largest, the next to it above, when present, minute. 



2 • Upperside similar to the upperside in S. schahra, but the 

 transverse yellow postdiscal band on the fore wing much broader 

 above, more continuous, generally diminishing to a point to- 

 wards the dorsum, not broken into quadrate spots. Hind wing 

 with only two or three ocelli, similar to the ocelli on the hind 

 wing of the 6 . Underside of both sexes very similar to the 

 underside in the sexes of S. schahra, but the orange-yellow on the 

 disc of the fore wing spreads into the cell, the inner dark brown 

 line crossing the cell is bordered on both sides with white, and the 

 whole of the apex of the cell is white. Hind wing: ground- 

 colour more uniform all over, irrorated with greyish scales. An- 

 tennas, head, thorax and abdomen pale brown ; the antennas ringed 

 with white, the abdomen whitish below. Male sex-mark present. 



Exp. <5 2 54-56 mm. (2-15-2-25"). 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas ; Kashmir ; Chitral. 



A. maeroides, Pelder, seems to me to be only a casual variety of 

 A. menava. 



