114 NYMPH ALIDJ3. 



b. A more or less whitish or fulvous series 



of postdiscal streaks or rectangular spots 



on upperside of fore wing. 



a'. Cell of fore wing on upperside wholly 



brown. 



<v>. Ocelli on upperside of fore wing of 



equal size N. diffusa, p. 115. 



b' 2 . Ocelli on upperside of fore wing 

 unequal, lower ocellus much the 



largest N. persephone, p. 115. 



b'. Basal half of cell on upperside of fore 



wing white N. shandura, p. 116. 



B. Club of antennae long, crescentic, some- 

 what concave beneath and pointed at 

 apex N. pafisatis, p. 117. 



133. Nytha thelephassa, Hubner (Eumenis), Samml. Ex. Schmett. ii, 

 1820-26, pi. 85, figs. 1-4, tf $ ; M. # de N. (Hipparchia) Butt. 

 Ind. i, 1883, p! 187; Moore (Eumenis), Lep. hid, ii, 1893-96, 

 p. 20. 



S . Upperside pale brown ; cilia white alternated with brown ; 

 wings crossed by a postdiscal broad ochraceous band, the outer 

 margin of which is defined by a dark line, inner margin on fore 

 wing indented at vein 4, on hind wing somewhat diffuse ; within 

 the band there are two white-centred black ocelli, with two inter- 

 mediate white spots, on the fore wing, and a very small subtornal 

 white-centred black ocellus, with one or two white specks above it, 

 on the hind wing. Underside pale greyish white, irrorated with 

 numerous black and dark grey stria? ; inferior apical half of cell, 

 the disc, and ocellar area on the fore wing ochraceous. Hind 

 wing : a postdiscal irregular, curved, transverse band, paler than 

 the rest of the wing, and more or less defined on both sides by 

 broken zigzag black lines. Ocelli on both fore and hind wing as 

 on the upperside. Sex-mark a conspicuous broad jet-black streak 

 about middle, rather towards apex of cell, on upperside of the 

 fore wing. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen greyish brown ; 

 abdomen beneath white. 



2 . Very similar, the ochraceous transverse band crossing the 

 wings broader, the indentation of its inner margin at vein 4 on 

 the fore wing deeper. 



Exp. 6 2 62-68 mm. (2-45-2-7"). 



Hab. S. Eussia, through Persia to Afghanistan. Within our 

 limits recorded from Quetta in Baluchistan. 



134. Nytha baldiva, Moore (Lasiommata), P. Z. S. 1865, p. 499, 

 pi. 30, fig. 4 ; M . 8f de N. (Hipparchia) Butt. Ind. i, 1883, 

 p. 188 ; Moore (Eumenis), Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 18, pi. 98, 

 tigs. 1, 1 a, J 2 • 



Race lehana. 



Hipparchia lehana, Moore, A. M. N. H. (5) i, 1878, p. 227; id. 

 Yarkand Miss., Lep. 1879, p. 1, pi i, fig. 4 S ', M. $ de N. Butt. 

 Ind. i, 1883, p. 188, pi. 16, fig. 48 $ ; Moore (Eumenis), Lep. 

 Lid. ii, 1893-96, p. 19, pi. 98, figs. 2, 2 a, tf $ . 



