1 12 NYMPHALID^. 



Genus PARARGKE. 

 Pararge, Hiibner, Verz. belt. Schmett. 1816, p. 59. 



Type, P. egeria, Cramer, from Europe. 



Range. Palaearctic Region. In India, the Himalayas. 



<5 2 • Fore wing triangular, the apex subtruncate, rounded ; 

 termen below apex slightly concave ; costa slightly arched ; 

 dorsum nearly straight; cell longer than half length of wing; 

 upper discocellular inclined obliquely outwards, middle twice as 

 long as upper, inclined obliquely inwards, lower very long, 

 inclined obliquely outwards ; veins 1 to 5 nearly parallel. Hind 

 wing oval, termen scalloped ; cell nearly half length of wing ; 

 discocellulars subequal, very oblique ; veins 3 and 4 from apex of 

 cell, latter arched upwards. Antennae not quite half length 

 of fore wing, club gradual, broadly grooved on underside ; palpi 

 porrect, compressed, third joint long, fringed with long hair 

 anteriorly ; eyes hairy ; intermediate femora with long hair 

 beneath. 



132. Pararge cashmirensis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 265 ; pi. 43, 

 fig. 3 <$ ; M. 8f de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 177; Moore 

 (Araecera), Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 12, pi. 97, figs. 1, 1 a, tf § . 



<$ . Upperside ochraceous yellow. Tore wing : a band along the 

 discocellulars, the apical third of the costa, and the termen broadly 

 dusky black ; a black spot towards apex of interspace 3, and one, 

 sometimes two, preapical spots or ill-formed ocelli joining the 

 black terminal border. Hind wing ochraceous brown, with the 

 apex and termen broadly dusky black ; a postdiscal series of 

 three or four black spots or ocelli surrounded by rich ochraceous 

 yellow. Underside : fore wing pale yellow ; cell crossed by three 

 sinuous lines, a band along the discocellulars, and a curved, 

 sinuous, short, discal transverse line dusky black; termen and 

 ocelli as on the upperside, but much paler ; tornal area darker. 

 Hind wing : basal half thickly suffused with dark brown scales ; 

 a subbasal, sinuous, transverse, slender line : termen broadly pale 

 brown with a dark marginal line ; area between dark base and 

 pale terminal border distinctly whitish, irrorated with greyish 

 scales and defined on both sides by dark sinuous lines ; a post- 

 discal curved series of six or seven black, white-centred, yellow- 

 ringed ocelli, the apical ocellus bordered inwardly with white, the 

 third shifted out of line inwards. Cilia white alternated with 

 brown. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen ochraceous brown, 

 paler beneath ; the antennae annulated with white towards the 

 base. 



$ . Similar, the band along the discocellulars broader, and 

 beyond it the costa white for a short distance on both upper 

 and under sides. 



Exp. <$ 2 64-68 mm. (2-55-2-7"). 



Hab. Kashmir. 



A local race of P. eversmanni, Eversmann, from Central Asia. 



